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Houston City Controller Chris Hollins honors community leaders at City Hall Black History Month program
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Houston City Controller Chris Hollins hosted a Black History Month program at City Hall featuring performances from Texas Southern University, awards to local leaders and tributes to the late Sheila Jackson Lee and Reverend William Lawson.
Houston City Controller Chris Hollins hosted a Black History Month program at City Hall that featured performances by Texas Southern University choirs, theater and debate teams and presented community awards to local leaders and organizations.
The event opened with emcee Chelsea Edwards, host of Chatting with Chelsea on Fox 26, and a prayer from Reverend Dr. Alexander E. M. Johnson of Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church. “Today is a celebration of black Houstonians past, present, and future,” Edwards said as the program began.
The program included musical and spoken-word performances by the TSU Choir, a theater excerpt from The Color Purple and a presentation by the…
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