Sunday, September 6, 2026

NATURAL Hair Class for Moms and Kids - Uncle Funky's Daughter

Uncle Funky's Daughter: Just 1 week until Little Curls, Big Style! Join on 9/13 for a Mommy & Me class designed to make caring for your little one's curls easier. Learn detangling tips, quick styles & more! Reserve your spot: https://klv2.io/PQbxbq

I attended an in-person Hair class at the Academy recently about having a healthy scalp. It was great!

One of our Jack and Jill Houston Chapter Moms (Associate) is the owner of this company!

I use their products and have been for many years since a salon in Rice Village started these products!

CHECK YOUR VOTER STATUS (ANY STATE) - IMPORTANT!! PLEASE SHARE!

https://www.vote411.org/check-registration -- this link took me in my case to the Texas Secretary of State. It checks all states and I verified it was the real Texas Secretary of State webpage.

Saturday, September 5, 2026

Philly Connect Gala THIS SATURDAY Join me as a GUEST or SPONSOR - Support Young Adult City-wide Bible Study Program

If you decide to attend, text me.. 713-304-3336 and I'll look for you!! These youth DESERVE our support! Donations of any amount appreciated!!

Join me at the Philly Connect Gala - NEXT WEEKEND 2 Sponsor Tables and 20 Individual SEATS STILL AVAILABLE (awesome young people who meet weekly for Bible Study) and many more events (more details below) Support young people who meet weekly at Bible Study and more. If you have kids or grandkids in their 20s, 30s this is a group that is networking and learning more about the Lord. I got involved as a volunteer when Maria was in Houston and involved in planning an event for these young adults.. The Gala which I attended last year for their 10 Year Anniversary I loved it so much! Fun way to support our young people!
Direct site to the TICKETS - SPONSORSHIPS - https://givebutter.com/plus1gala If it says "sold out" contact me in case you can still get in! 713-304-3336

Several links to learn more about this 501-3C organization - support as a SPONSOR - Carin the founder has asked me to help find sponsors - if you want to outreach to a young adult audience - PLEASE CONSIDER SPONSORING!

I enjoyed reading all the information on their websites - this is a site specifically for the gala...
https://pcplus1gala.my.canva.site/

From Carin - FOUNDER OF Philly Connect
As we step into the next chapter, our 2026 Fundraising Gala will help fuel the future of Philly Connect® through securing a permanent home, expanding leadership and mentorship programming, strengthening infrastructure, investing in the next generation and increasing our ability to serve more people with intention and excellence.
Because there are still more people waiting for someone to say, “come with me.” One more invitation can shift a life. One more conversation can unlock purpose. And the beautiful thing is, what starts with one never stays there.
Thank you for choosing to be part of our story and for helping us make room for one more.  For more information on Philly Connect® and to become a member of our community, please visit my site
https://www.phillyconnect.org/ - LEARN MORE ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION AT THIS SITE!!

NASA Opportunities in STEM Education including Internships

https://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/nasa-stem-opportunities-activities/

Japan Africa DREAM Scholarship for African Students

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/japan-africa-dream-scholarship-jads-hadme/

Houston Area Urban League - YOUNG PROFESSIONALS - GREAT ORGANIZATION TO JOIN and VOLUNTEER - Upcoming Events at this Link

https://mailchi.mp/haulyp/welcome-your-new-executive-leadership-team-18086231?e=b0b616973c

Building the Moon Base - stories at the ION

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/moon-base/building-the-moon-base-nasa-stories-at-the-ion/

Pulitzer Center - Teacher Fellowships and Workshops

https://pulitzercenter.org TONS of RESOURCES and FELLOWSHIPS

An Evening with Leland Melvin, Astronaut, NFL Player - Thought Leaders Series

https://spacecenter.org/event/thought-leader-series/ for tickets

NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars APPLY NOW!

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nasa-ncas-aerospace-share-7498048544734343168-M6VC/?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=ios_app&rcm=ACoAAAI1ld8BQ3vRK8qw8789PoT6G3NNm1mv68M&utm_campaign=copy_link

Aerospace is more than rocket science. 🚀

From technicians and programmers to manufacturing specialists and systems operators, a wide range of skills are essential to the aerospace workforce.

The NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars (NCAS) Student Challenge gives community college students the opportunity to explore NASA mission areas and connect their education and career pathways to aerospace careers.

Applications are open now. Learn more: https://nasa-ncas.org/

NASA NCAS Aerospace STEM CommunityCollege CareerPathways WorkforceDevelopment

Keep voting for Aliya - Sports Illustrated Contest - $25,000 Scholarship and Ad Feature

EFAMILY SUPPORT ALIYA for Sports Illustrated Athlete of the Year

VOTE Aliya Youth Athlete of the Year (GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THE EMAIL TO READ HER STORY in HER OWN WORDS... Yale Commit 2027 in the TOP Spot -- GRANDDAUGHTER OF EFAMILY MEMBER KATHLEEN LEONARD -- Takes a moment to click for a vote and help this young lady -- AD FEATURE AND $25,000 Scholarship. LACROSSE!! She and her sister on this year's team and they won the game last week!!

From her Grandmother Kathleen Leonard...

Happy Saturday, family and friends; just a short message today.

Today was the first Ward Medville HS soccer game. Aliya is a senior and has been on the varsity team since 8th grade. In those first three years, they won the State Championship. Last year they fell short, but this year she is a senior, and they want to earn that title again. A bonus for Aliya is that her sister Jada, a freshman, is also on the team. Jada also began her varsity soccer career as an 8th grader. In today’s game, Aliya sent a cross to Emma, who crossed to Jada, who scored a side volley. Final score: 1-0!

Please keep voting for Aliya as Youth Athlete of the Year. You can only vote every 24 hrs. I set my alarm so I don’t forget, lol!

10th Annual Moses Malone Celebrity Golf Classic October 14 and 15th 2026

Rice University -- Sept 14 Kimberle Crenshaw thanks efamily member Monique Shankle for sharing!

September 14, 2026

Kimberlé Crenshaw - In Conversation with Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman

6:00pm CDT
Kraft Hall, 130

Backtalker - Kimberlé Crenshaw

Contact Info:

Fatima Khan, fk20@rice.edu

Dr. Kimberlé W. Crenshaw will be in conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, Associate Professor of Sociology at Rice University, about her acclaimed, bestselling memoir, Backtalker. Reception at 6 PM. Book signing to follow the conversation.

One of the most influential public intellectuals in the world and the architect of the two biggest ideas to reshape the American conversation about fairness offers the intimate story of how her life gave birth to these ideas.

It is not very often that someone comes along and permanently reshapes the way Americans think about two of the most important issues of the day. In this case: race and gender. But that is what Kimberlé Crenshaw did when she articulated two concepts that would forever change national and global debates about equality: intersectionality and critical race theory.

Backtalker is the powerful and intimate story of how a little girl from Canton, Ohio, came up with a new way to look at the world. Crenshaw’s memoir traces the way her lived experience made her see things others didn’t as the daughter of a strong-minded teacher and a pathbreaking public servant, and as the sister of a protective, yet bullying older brother. She starts to talk back, and that backtalking has continued throughout her life. It happens when she is denied a role in the kindergarten school play. When she is escorted to the back door of a private club. When Anita Hill is exiled for testifying against Clarence Thomas. When OJ Simpson goes on trial. When Obama launches My Brother’s Keeper, a movement focused on boys of color only. When the movement against police violence overlooks Black women. Crenshaw is there for all of it.

In the vein of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Bryan Stevenson, Crenshaw evokes each time and place like a gifted novelist with extreme honesty and specificity, making her book a series of awe-inspiring, deep revelations. As a result of her work, Crenshaw has become a force to be reckoned with across America–at schools, in the workplace, at dinner tables, and, of course, in our public square.

About the Author:

Kimberlé W. Crenshaw is a pioneering scholar and writer on civil rights, Black feminist legal theory, race, racism, and the law. She was a founder and has been a leader in the intellectual movement called Critical Race Theory and is also known for introducing and developing the concept of intersectionality. She is a Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, and the cofounder and Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum. Crenshaw writes regularly for The New Republic, The Nation, and Ms., hosts the podcast Intersectionality Matters!, and has appeared as a commentator on media outlets including MSNBC and NPR.

About the Moderator:

Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Rice University whose scholarship advances an intersectional analysis of race, gender, family, and the African Diaspora. Her work examines how race and gender operate as mutually constitutive systems of power, with particular attention to the emotional regimes that sustain racialized and gendered hierarchies. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic research in Brazil, her award-winning scholarship highlights the central role of emotion in systems of power and oppression. More broadly, she explores how global anti-Blackness shapes the structural and affective experiences of Afro-Latin Americans, Afro-Latinxs, and African Americans, especially Black women and families in the work and educational context.

This event is presented by the African American Policy Forum, Rice University’s Department of Sociology, and the W.E.B DuBois Legacy Foundation. It is co-sponsored by Rice University’s Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, the Department of Anthropology, and the Center for African and African American Studies

Registration for this event is now closed.

Sociology, Social Science, Guest Speaker, Sociology Speaker Series

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