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☆ tWitch’s legacy of kindness makes his loss all the more tragic
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

They were simply returning a bit of the kindness and love Boss poured into the world. His tragic death has stirred public shock, expressions of grief and confusion about how it was possible given the joy Boss seemed to exude in his work. Boss talked to Yahoo in April 2021 about trying to move their way through those difficult months. In a 2017 conversation on the “Aubrey Marcus Podcast,” Boss talked about dancing and perseverance through challenge. “When you feel good, you dance,” Boss said.

[1/2] Demonstrators protest the killing of Patrick Lyoya, an unarmed Black man who was shot and killed by a Grand Rapids Police officer during a traffic stop on April 4, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S., April 16, 2022. REUTERS/David 'Dee' Delgado/File PhotoDec 7 (Reuters) - The family of an African refugee who was shot and killed during a traffic stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has filed a civil lawsuit against the city and a former police officer charged with murdering him. The suit was filed on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court in Western Michigan, according to online records, on behalf of the family of Patrick Lyoya, a 26-year-old immigrant from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The attorneys will detail the lawsuit against Schurr and Grand Rapids, a city of less than 200,000 residents in western Michigan, at a news conference later on Wednesday. The attempted arrest unfolded after the officer stopped Lyoya over suspicions involving his license plate.

Officer Carol Darch and Dean had been responding to a call at Jefferson’s home when Dean, who is white, fatally shot Jefferson, a 28-year-old Black woman who was playing video games with her 8-year-old nephew. Darch said Dean took the lead as they approached the house and moved toward Jefferson’s backyard. According to police and body camera footage, Dean failed to identify himself before firing his weapon and striking Jefferson. Aaron Dean arrives to the 396th District Court in Fort Worth on Dec. 5, 2022, in Fort Worth, Texas, for the first day of his trial in the murder of Atatiana Jefferson. Dean, who resigned from the Fort Worth Police Department before his arrest, was indicted by a Texas grand jury in December 2019 on a murder charge.

Aaron Dean, a white former Fort Worth police officer, is on trial in the 2019 killing of Atatiana Jefferson, a 28-year-old Black woman who was playing video games at home with her 8-year-old nephew. Dean fatally shot Jefferson after a concerned neighbor noticed a door had been left ajar and called a nonemergency police line. During opening arguments, prosecutors said Dean shot Jefferson through the window into her chest “not a second” after shouting, “Put your hands up! At issue in the trial is whether Dean saw Jefferson's gun and whether he believed it was pointed at him. Jefferson's death echoes that of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman fatally shot by police in March 2020 in her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment.

☆ Daylight Saving Time debate sheds light on growing racial inequities in sleep health
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( Jacqueline Howard | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the Sleep Research Society and other medical groups have advocated for ending the practice, calling for the adoption of a permanent standard time that would not involve shifting forward each spring and falling back each autumn. She authored a paper, published in September in the journal Sleep, detailing the potential health benefits of adopting a permanent standard time. Now, some sleep researchers worry about the potential effects that continuing to change standard time twice each year may have on sleep health inequities. “Fortunately, sleep health is largely modifiable.”As for the inequities seen in sleep health, it’s not that White adults don’t also experience a lack of sleep and its health consequences – but people of color appear to disproportionately experience them more, and that’s believed to be largely due to social systems in the United States. Improving sleep health has been a national objective in the federal government’s past two Healthy People programs, noted Caraballo-Cordovez, who is not involved in the programs.

☆ Walmart fired Black hourly employees twice as often as their white coworkers at the pandemic's start, congressional report says
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Ben Tobin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Congressional report finds Walmart laid off double the amount of Black workers during the pandemic. As of July 29 this year, Black workers comprised roughly 21% of Walmart's 1.6 million US workforce. "Walmart had some of the largest racial inequities of the surveyed companies when it came to employment outcomes," the report says. As of July 29 this year, Black workers comprised roughly 21% of Walmart's 1.6 million US workforce, according to the Walmart's culture, equity, diversity, and inclusion 2022 mid-year report. The congressional report found that while Black salaried workers were promoted at a higher rate than white salaried workers (36.2% to 28.0%), Black hourly workers were promoted at a lower rate than white hourly workers (8.7% to 11.1%).

☆ 'Mom, you look really exhausted': How this CEO got her dream job, and then burned out on it
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Jennifer Liu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Michele C. Meyer-Shipp is the CEO of Dress for Success, a global nonprofit that helps women prepare for the job search and interviews. In August 2020, Michele C. Meyer-Shipp started her dream job — becoming the first woman of color to be named Major League Baseball's chief people and culture officer. The 25-year-old nonprofit, which helps women through the job search and interview process, was looking for a new CEO. One of my sons said to me repeatedly, "Mom, you look really exhausted. Stepping into a new role, doing something I've never done before, was really, really scary.

☆ The ridiculous rise of the chief purpose officer — corporate America's half-baked attempt to fix the employee burnout crisis
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Tracy Moore | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Every company on Great Place to Work's ranked list of best employers has a chief purpose officer or purpose among the company's missions and goals. Its chief purpose officer, Kwasi Mitchell, who stepped into the role in 2020, told me that establishing purpose was a powerful talent-retention tool. The same is true for chief purpose officers. And a chief purpose officer can be used as a crutch, a way for a business to say, "Of course, we care," when employees raise issues with the culture. Instead of fixing the burnout problem, these executives can allow management to turn a blind eye and assume all is well, letting workplace rot set in even deeper.

"And I feel like us being mostly Hispanic, mostly African American students, mostly Caribbean students, we don't get to learn a lot about our cultures and the ways that we were thriving. Shannah Henderson speaks to a student during Brooklyn Preparatory High School's AP African American studies course in Brooklyn, N.Y. on Wednesday. Henderson said Trevor Packer, the senior vice president and the head of the AP Program and the instruction division, responded. She said that because she doesn't have a degree in African American studies, she was also required to take online courses at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. AP African American Studies is multidisciplinary, drawing from literature, the arts and humanities, political science, geography and science.

Yet, in “Till,” filmmaker Chinonye Chukwu offers viewers a different window into Emmett’s life through the perspective of his poised and graceful mother, Mamie Till-Mobley (Danielle Deadwyler). But for Black mothers like Mamie, this is a different sort of anxiety. Through Deadwyler’s powerful performance, viewers will feel the palpable fear of Black mothers knowing they can never fully protect their Black children in white America. It is a manic fury that destroys Black lives and inflicts irreparable harm on our community, especially on the psyches of Black mothers. But for Black mothers like Mamie, this is a different sort of anxiety.

☆ Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend shares the moment he found out she had been killed
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Scott Stump | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Kenny Walker, the boyfriend of Breonna Taylor, has opened up in an emotional interview about the stunning moment he learned she had been killed by police. While executing a drug search warrant at Taylor’s apartment in Louisville, officers opened fire after Walker, believing an intruder was trying to break in, fired a gun toward the door. In August, four former Louisville police officers were federally charged with violating Taylor’s civil rights in the raid that led to her death. Former detective Joshua Jaynes, who obtained the search warrant, is accused of misleading investigators probing the shooting, NBC News reported in August. “The federal charges announced today allege that members of the Place-Based Investigations unit falsified the affidavit used to obtain the search warrant of Ms. Taylor’s home,” Garland said.

☆ Young Black activists are done waiting their turn for political office. They're taking on the 'John Lewis generation' of elder lawmakers who they say are out of touch.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Elvina Nawaguna | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +30 min

Most members of the Congressional Black Caucus are twice as old as the median Black person living in the US. The Congressional Black Caucus, a powerful voice for Black Americans, is significantly older than those it speaks for. Clay had replaced his father, William Lacy Clay Sr., a civil-rights icon and founding Congressional Black Caucus member who had represented the area since 1969. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesThe Congressional Black Caucus is reckoning with a leftward shift it's struggled to embrace. A spokesperson for the Congressional Black Caucus did not respond to Insider's request for comment.

Martin said the stress of being pregnant in prison without adequate prenatal care is taking a toll on her mental and physical health. Chrysti Shain, a spokesperson for the South Carolina Department of Corrections, said the prison is investigating Martin’s report of assault. Why would I cut my hair?” Martin said. According to Martin’s prison report, she has been disciplined for failing to obey orders and threatening to inflict harm on an employee. A spokesperson for the prison said all pregnant inmates are allowed to have double portions at each meal.

☆ Violatori devin, de multe ori, anume „băieții de treabă”. Recenzie la filmul „Promising Young Woman”
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-08 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +27 min

Promising Young Woman a fost nominalizat la cinci categorii ale premiului Oscar. Cu brațele întinse de-a lungul canapelei, Cassie, într-o ținută office, abia se ține trează. Deja un Seth mai matur o abordează pe Cassie și îi propune să o conducă până acasă. Simpatic, un pic stângaci, exact atât cât trebuie ca să te facă să zâmbești, cu un simț al umorul bun, autoironic și… atât de înalt. În martie 2016, Brock Turner a fost condamnat pentru agresarea sexuală a unei femei inconștiente la o petrecere a fraternității.

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☆ Susținătorii lui Trump au vandalizat sediul Partidului Democrat din Portland la câteva ore după învestirea lui Joe Biden
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-21 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Protestatarii au spart ușile și ferestrele clădirii, au dat foc unui tomberon și au desenat graffit-uri pe pereții exteriori cu mesaje precum „Breonna Taylor merită dreptate” și „F*** Biden”, potrivit unor filmări de la fața locului făcute de reporterii NBC Portland. Potrivit poliției din Portland o parte a grupului de aproximativ 150 de persoane aveau diverse arme, „inclusiv cocktail-uri Molotov, cuțite, bastoane, spray chimic și o rangă”. Unii dintre protestatari s-au întâlnit în sud-estul Portland-ului înainte de a se îndrepta către birourile Partidului Democrat îmbrăcați în negru și purtând bannere pe care erau scrise mesaje precum „Nu-l vrem pe Biden, vrem răzbunare! Pentru crimele poliției, războaiele imperialiste și masacrele fasciste” sau „Noi suntem neguvernabili”, potrivit unei fotografii publicate de The Oregonian. Acuzațiile împotriva celor opt persoane arestate includ infracțiuni grave, printre care și deținerea de arme, a declarat șeful poliției, Kevin Allen.

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☆ Susținătorii lui Trump au vandalizat sediul Partidului Democrat din Portland în ziua învestirii lui Joe Biden
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-21 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

Susținătorii lui Trump au vandalizat sediul Partidului Democrat din Portland în ziua învestirii lui Joe BidenOpt persoane au fost arestate după ce susținătorii lui Trump au vandalizat sediul Partidului Democrat din Portland, Oregon, la câteva ore după învestirea noului președinte al SUA Joe Biden, transmite NBC News, citat de Digi24. Potrivit poliției din Portland o parte a grupului de aproximativ 150 de persoane aveau diverse arme, „inclusiv cocktail-uri Molotov, cuțite, bastoane, spray chimic și o rangă”. Unii dintre protestatari s-au întâlnit în sud-estul Portland-ului înainte de a se îndrepta către birourile Partidului Democrat îmbrăcați în negru și purtând bannere pe care erau scrise mesaje precum „Nu-l vrem pe Biden, vrem răzbunare! Pentru crimele poliției, războaiele imperialiste și masacrele fasciste” sau „Noi suntem neguvernabili”, potrivit unei fotografii publicate de The Oregonian. Acuzațiile împotriva celor opt persoane arestate includ infracțiuni grave, printre care și deținerea de arme, a declarat șeful poliției, Kevin Allen.

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This is our town.” For months in Kentucky, residents outraged by the killing of Breonna Taylor campaigned for the police officers who shot her to face charges. This is injustice, and this is a start clock for the next level of our protest.” “Say her name.” “Breonna Taylor.” What happened in the final minutes of Breonna Taylor’s life? But at 1 a.m., almost 20 minutes after the shooting, the police still don’t know Taylor is critically injured inside. But in this analysis, the killing of Breonna Taylor resulted from poor planning compounded by reckless execution. And nine months after Taylor was killed, her family is seeking a fresh inquiry into the officers involved.

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