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Dr. Altha Stewart has been named the president-elect of the 37,000-member American Psy- chiatric Association (APA).
Stewart, a native of South Memphis, will be the first African-American to lead the 173-year-old organization, which sets policy, establishes practice guidelines and repre- sents the field of psychiatry na- tionally and internationally.
Stewart will be the fourth consecutive woman to lead the organization. She will begin her tenure as president-elect in May and become president in May 2018.
Stewart is the chief of Social and Community Psychiatry at University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC).
She was among the first class of women to attend what is now Christian Brothers University. She graduated from Temple University Medical School and
Uber Hires Former Atty. General Eric Holder To Prove Sexual Harassment, Bias Allegations At Company
Dr. Altha Stewart Becomes First Black To Lead American Psychiatric Assoc.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Uber has tapped former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to help lead an inves- tigation into allegations of sexual harassment and dis- crimination made by a former female employee who made her claims public over the weekend in a blog post, the Washington Post reports.
In a memo shared Monday, CEO Travis Kalanick told employees the review would be conducted in “short order,” and would involve other offi- cials, including Arianna
Former Attorney General under President Obama, Eric Holder.
Huffington, founder of the Huffington Post and an Uber board member, and Liane Hornsey, Uber’s recently hired human resources chief.
Susan Fowler Rigetti,
who worked as an engineer at the transport company, wrote in the widely circulated blog post that in her year working for the company she and other female employees re- ported several incidents of sexual harassment and dis- crimination to Uber’s HR de- partment.
DR. ALTHA STEWART
was a resident at Hahnemann University Hospital, both in Philadelphia.
Stewart is considered a na- tional expert in public sector and minority issues in mental health care, as well as in the effects of trauma and violence on chil- dren.
Little Ceasars Founder Dies; Good Deed To Rosa Parks Revealed
DETROIT, MI —- Last Fri- day at the age of 87, self-made billionaire Michael "Mike" Ilitch died at a Detroit Hospi- tal.
In the days since his death it has been revealed that, in ad- dition to his successful busi- ness ventures as founder of Little Caesars Pizza, owner of the Detroit Red Wings hockey team, and the Detroit Tigers Major league baseball team, the American business mag- nate was also a 'good samari- tan,' discreetly paying monthly rent for Civil Rights pioneer, Rosa Parks.
In a recently resurfaced 2014 article featured in Sports Busi- ness Daily, Detroit judge, Damon Keith told the story of how Ilitch came to the aid of Parks, then 81, after she was robbed and assaulted in her Detroit city home.
“It’s important that people
Michael ‘pizza pizza’ Ilitch paid Rosa Parks’ rent after she was robbed.
College Student Continuing To Research His Breakthrough In The Cure For Colon Cancer
Keven Stonewall discovered a major breakthrough towards a cure for colon cancer while in high school.
know what Mr. Mike Ilitch did for Ms. Rosa Parks be- cause it’s symbolic of what he has always done for the people of our city,” said Judge Keith.
After reading about the 1994 assault, Ilitch reached out to
Judge Keith who served as the executor of the trust estab- lished for Parks housing and offered to pay Parks’ rent for as long as necessary.
He kept his word, paying her monthly rent for a decade until Parks passed away in 2005.
When Keven Stonewall was in the fifth grade, he re- ceived four microscopes for Christmas from his parents. They did not realize then that his interest in biology would eventually lead him to dis- cover a major breakthrough in the cure for colon cancer.
Colon cancer is the third most common cancer among African American men and women, according to The Cancer Prevention Founda- tion. They also have the high- est death rates from the disease.
It was during his last year of high school working at a Rush University lab that Keven found a critical age- related drawback in an exper- imental vaccine aimed at preventing colon cancer in mice.
The experiment helped sci- entists realize that they needed a special vaccine for
older subjects, according to his lab director at Rush Uni- versity, Carl Ruby.
Keven's research earned him numerous awards. The results of his research were even presented at the na- tional meeting for the Society for ImmunoTherapy of Can- cer in Washington, D.C., and credit was given to Keven for his lead in the research.
Keven is now a sophomore and biomedical engineering major at the University of Wisconsin Madison where he continues his colon cancer re- search.
With plans to become an oncologist and earn both M.D. and Ph.D. degrees, he comments, “I don’t want to only focus on colon cancer. I have a bigger picture in mind. I want to cure cancer, and the more informed I am, the bet- ter physician I’ll be.”
Report: 5 Million South Sudanese At Risk For Starvation
Sudanese mother and child are being starved to death due to Sudanese president Salva Kiir Ma- yardit blocking food aid.
More than 5 million South Sudanese men, women and children are at risk for starva- tion, according to reports from the country itself and the United Nations.
The South Sudanese govern- ment has declared famine in two counties of the country, ac- cording to an announcement
by the South Sudan govern- ment and three U. N. agencies. The catastrophe is the result of a three-year old civil war in the country, reports USA
Today.
U.N. officials allege that
President Salva Kiir Ma- yardit's government is block- ing food aid to some areas,
according to U.N. officials. “This famine is man-made,” said Joyce Luma, head of the World Food Program in South Sudan. “There is only so much that humanitarian assistance can achieve in the absence of meaningful peace and secu-
rity.”
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