https://house.texas.gov/members/95

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/19/nicole-collier-texas-house-dps-escort-redistricting-quorum

A Texas House Democrat was confined in the Capitol overnight after she refused a police escort that Republican leaders imposed on lawmakers who participated in a two-week walkout over a GOP mid-decade redistricting plan.

Rep. Nicole Collier, D-Fort Worth, declined on Monday afternoon to sign a slip giving her permission from Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, to leave the House floor with a state law enforcement officer shadowing her.

https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/for-the-love-of-community-profiling-hartford-pastor-aj-johnson/2229600

In a church in Hartford’s North End, you can find Pastor AJ Johnson on any given Sunday preaching the gospel, leading the congregation his father built.

“He believed the church should be so much more than just singing and dancing on a Sunday. It should change the community where it is.”

At the corner of Westland and Barbour streets in Hartford, Urban Hope Refuge Church became a haven for the neighborhood, especially after the riots of the 1960s set the city on a new course.

https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/calling-all-brothers-welcomes-hartford-students-back-to-school/3372177

Calling All Brothers welcomes Hartford students back to school

“Imagine Super Bowl weekend and your two best teams are playing, and you’re walking into the stadium, and it’s just energy. It’s electrifying, and it is a place that you want to be,” said Rev. AJ Johnson, with Calling All Brothers.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/19/nx-s1-5506209/too-much-to-pack-not-enough-hugs-a-kenyan-mans-last-48-hours-in-america-trump-self-deportation

LANSING, Mich. — Five suitcases are scattered around Samuel Kangethe’s living room in his home in West Lansing, a neighborhood lined with tall trees and big front yards in Michigan’s capital. Clothes mixed with finance and accounting books, and somewhere in the chaos are his Air Jordan sneakers.

“I just want to take the clothes that I need,” Kangethe says. “I don’t know, it’s just too much.”

Too much trying to pack 16 years of his life into a handful of suitcases,and deciding what to pack, and what to leave behind.

Kangethe is leaving the U.S., the country where he earned graduate degrees through a student visa, where he worked as an accountant for a beer distribution company and for the State of Michigan, where he fell in love with his wife Latavia and where he became a dad of three: 13-year-old Dwight, 11-year-old Hailey, and 5-year-old Ella.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Townsend

Taylor Townsend (born April 16, 1996) is an American professional tennis player. She is the current WTA world No. 1 in doubles, achieved on 28 July 2025.^[1][2] Townsend won two major doubles titles, at the 2024 Wimbledon Championships and the 2025 Australian Open, both with Kateřina Siniaková.^[3] In addition, she has won eight WTA Tour titles and also reached two other major finals, the 2022 US Open (with Caty McNally) and the 2023 French Open (with Leylah Fernandez). Townsend has a career-high singles ranking of No. 46, achieved on 19 August 2024.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_(musician)

Michael Jordan Bonema (born October 13, 1998), known professionally as Mike (stylized in all caps), is an American rapper, songwriter and record producer based in New York City. Bonema’s atypical upbringing, having experienced life in New Jersey, England, Philadelphia and New York City, has had an audible influence on his diverse and experimental music style.^[1]

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/07/g-s1-80267/mike-tiny-desk-concert

MIKE loves and uplifts those he cares about. During his 71-date Artists of the Century tour, every chance he got, his heart would pour over with gratitude for his fans, his family and his collaborators onstage. His Tiny Desk performance isn’t so different.

https://senate.texas.gov/member.php?d=23

Royce West is a lawyer and public servant who was first elected to the Texas Senate in 1992, where he has represented the 23rd Senatorial District. During his tenure, he has been named by Texas Monthly as one of the 25 most powerful people in Texas politics, and he has been selected for the magazine’s biennial “Ten Best Legislators in Texas” list twice, as well as receiving mention on the Associated Press’ “Movers and Shakers” list and the Texas Insider’s “Best Legislators” list. Senator West is Vice Chair of the Senate Transportation Committee and is a member of Senate committees: Education K-16, Finance, Local Government, and Redistricting, Special.

https://www.soupersweetsandwichshop.com/about

I have loved everything about food since I can remember. I spent the summers with my granny in Georgia. She had a garden (or should I say fields) of food that she grew, a smokehouse for her meats, and pecan, lemon, and plum trees. She made biscuits that would melt in your mouth that I can still taste to this day.

https://www.nepm.org/nepms-media-lab/2025-08-14/chef-sonya-reflects-on-her-experiences

Chef Sonya Yelder has been the owner of the Souper Sweet Sandwich Shop in Springfield and chef for nearly 10 years. She likes to have her food and goods mostly made from scratch. She was inspired by spending her summers with her grandmother. She uses the skills she’s learned to cook for others. She says “We do some work with churches, like if we have extra food and things, we do that.”

https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/middle-schooler-leads-11-5-million-project-build-air-filters-schools/3415312

Eniola Shokunbi said she wants to be president of the United States, but first she’s making an impact on her local community.

“Eniola is fabulous,” State Senator Matt Lesser said. “She wows every room she’s in front of. She’s a real rock star.”

In fifth grade, she led the efforts to create an air filter system that’s able to remove cold and COVID viruses from classrooms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Mboko

Victoria Vanessa Mboko (born 26 August 2006) is a Canadian professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 24, achieved on 11 August 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 540, achieved on 3 March 2025. Mboko has won one WTA Tour singles title, a WTA 1000 level event, at the 2025 Canadian Open. She is currently the No. 1 singles player from Canada.

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