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IN THIS EPISODE: After several rough cases involving abuse and neglect in children--including here in Harris County, Host Khambrel Marshall sits down with Dr. Bob Sanborn, president and CEO of Children At Risk. He believes that much of the abuse and suffering in children can be reduced if the government stepped forward.

Reginald DesRoches is making history as the first Black man and first immigrant to serve as president of Rice University.

Class first began at Rice University in September of 1912 under a charter that called for the free education of the “White inhabitants of Houston and Texas.”

Rice University has tabbed Reginald DesRoches as the school's next President, effective next summer.

DesRoches is an internationally recognized structural engineer and earthquake resilience expert. He will be the first immigrant and first Black man to lead the private Houston university.

A Rice University student shares what his family in Haiti is dealing with after the massive earthquake.

HOUSTON – In 2019, Rice University announced the promotion of the dean of engineering, Reginald DesRoches, Ph.D, to provost. This was a historic moment for the university as Dr. DesRoches became the first African-American provost, especially at a university that didn’t allow blacks until 1965. In honor of Black History Month, Khambrel Marshall sat with the newly appointed provost to talk about Dr. DesRoches’s childhood, his legacy and making history in 2020. Born in Haiti to New York, mechanical engineering, dean, provost; that’s a good story. People are focus on the fact that I’m the first black dean and the first black provost.