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#BlackGirlMagic: Picture Of Mom And Her Twins Goes Viral
The Mahomes.
Doctor In Houston Opens Freestanding ER
INDIANAPOLIS, IN -- Kaylan Mahomes (@kay- lan_17) recently posted a photo/ video of herself with her twin sister, Kyla (@kyllll- laaaaa), and her mother on her Twitter account, but she had no idea just how viral the post would go.
The three of them, from In- dianapolis, Indiana, look com- pletely identical, and it really is hard to tell which one of them is the mom. Because of the amazement of the photo, the photo/video has been retweeted and shared thou- sands of times on both Face- book and Twitter, and the hashtags #BlackGirlMagic and #BlackDontCrack have become an international trend.
Not only that, news pro- grams all over the world, from Denmark to England to the Ba- hamas to Nigeria, are talking about it, and even Kaylan’s Twitter followers have in- creased to more than 8,000. She has since started an already popular Instagram account at www.instagram.com/momtwin andme/.
So, who exactly is who? Well, the mom is actually the one on the far left. The two on the right are the twin sisters.
The three are even starting to get invitations from radio and TV stations around the country to be on their show. Most notable is an invitation from, you guessed it – The Ellen Degeneres Show!
HOUSTON, TX --- Going to an emergency room can be a scary, frustrating experience. If you’re not on the verge of death, but in great pain you might have to wait hours to be seen in a busy, big-city ER. And when you get your bill for the visit that could be heart-attack inducing as well. A doctor in Hous- ton, Texas thought about those challenges and de- cided to be proactive by founding her own emergency room facility independent of any hospi- tal.
Thirty-two-year-old Dr. Foyekemi Ikyaator (Dr. Foye, pronounced Foy-yay) started the ER so that patients could get faster and more specified medical care. A graduate of the University of Wis- consin Medical School, the Nigerian native is now the medical director of Life SaversER, in Houston, Texas, Ikyaator and her husband, who co-founded
Dr. Foyekemi Ikyaator and her staff.
the facility, fulfilled a need that is slowly being an- swered at urgent care facilities similar to theirs around the country. At Lifesavers, there is a no-wait policy, and it also offers free flu shots, free CPR training and $10 sports physicals. You can check-in online and there is a pharmacy on the premises. If your case requires hospitalization, LifeSavers will handle the paperwork for the transfer.
Maryland Prosecutors Appeal To Force Testimony In Freddie Gray Case
Freddie Gray’s spine was severed while in police custody. Officer William Porter may be forced to testify against Officer Edward Nero.
‘I Am My Brother’s/Sister’s Keeper’ Is Theme Of National Black HIV/AIDS Day; 500,000 Are Infected
New HIV/AIDS bands.
BALTIMORE, MD ---Maryland prosecutors have asked an appeals court to force a Baltimore police officer to testify against three of his col- leagues in the Freddie Gray case, according to a filing made public on Friday.
The Court of Special Appeals document filed on Thursday says prosecutors are appealing Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams' Jan. 20 ruling that blocked them from calling Officer William Porter to testify against Edward Nero and two other officers.
The four are among a half-dozen officers charged in the death of Gray, a 25-year-old Black man. His death in April 2015 from an injury sus- tained while in police custody triggered protests and rioting and intensified a U. S. debate on police
treatment of minorities.
Nero is charged with second-degree assault,
misconduct in office and reckless endangerment. His trial is scheduled to start on Feb. 22.
Trials of the other two officers, Garrett Miller and Lieutenant Brian Rice, are set for March. Porter's manslaughter trial ended in a hung jury in December, and a retrial is scheduled for June.
The Court of Special Appeals delayed the murder trial of another officer, Caesar Goodson Jr., last month until it can decide whether Porter can be compelled to testify against him and the sixth offi- cer, Sergeant Alicia White.
Williams had ordered Porter to testify since he had been offered immunity from prosecution for what he might say on the stand.
Child Labor And Human Rights Violation Lawsuit In Full Swing Against Nestle
Sunday was National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, which was first observed on February 7, 1999. The theme of this year’s National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is “I Am My Brother’s and Sister’s Keeper: Fight HIV/AIDS!”
During his final State of the Union address last month to a joint session of Congress in Washington, D. C., President Barack Obama said that the U. S. is on track to eliminate new HIV/AIDS transmissions by 2020.
The federal government and states like New York have devel- oped steps and strategies to end the epidemic through recent medical advances that have been driving down infection rates and improving quality of life in some U. S. demographic groups.
But the information is failing to reach activists, religious lead- ers and other stakeholders who can help address the scourge of HIV/AIDS at the grassroots level in African-American com-
munities, C. Virginia Fields, president and CEO of the Na- tional Black Leadership Com- mission on AIDS (NBLCA), said.
Despite advances in treat- ment and prevention, African- Americans are infected with HIV at eight times the rate of white Americans and accounted for 44 percent of HIV diagnoses in 2014, according to the Cen- ters for Disease Control.
Gail Wyatt, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist, sex therapist and professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Bio-behavioral Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles, says the stigma and cultural stereotypes about sexuality must be combat- ted in African-American com- munities to shift new infection rates. Wyatt noted that the dearth of information about HIV/AIDS treatment and pre- vention among African Ameri- cans is tied to institutional racism.It is estimated that nearly 500,000 African Ameri- cans are living with HIV.
Renowned food and beverage manufacture Nestlé is in the midst of a child labor and human rights violations lawsuit. Initially filed in 2005, three former Mali workers claim that they were overworked, underpaid and se- verely beaten during their time as cocoa harvesters for the company.
The Supreme Court has re- cently announced that it will up- hold the lawsuit. While rumors of the alleged treatment of workers have been circulating for years, Nestlé has finally taken responsi- bility for their haphazard working conditions. The company recently released a statement outing other food manufactures in addition to acknowledging that they plan to do better.
According to The Guardian, Nestle claims that it’s virtually
Magdi Batato, Nestlé’s executive vice-president in charge of operations. These are some of the children that are used in the cocoa fields in Mali.
impossible for any company that’s outsourced shrimp from Thailand or cocoa from the Ivory Coast to not have used slave labor.
“As we’ve said consistently, forced labour and human rights abuses have no place in our sup- ply chain,” said Magdi Batato,
Nestlé’s executive vice-president in charge of operations. “Nestlé believes that by working with sup- pliers we can make a positive dif- ference to the sourcing of ingredients.”
So next time you are consum- ing a Nestle product, think about how it got to the shelf.
Confederate Flag To Be Placed Across The Street From HBCU Campus
MONTGOMERY, AL -- Since the horrific mass shooting in June at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., Confederate flags and monuments have been a hot topic for debate, given the White Supremacist Manifesto al- legedly written by accused
church shooter Dylann Roof. Nonetheless, while many are pushing for these monuments and flags to be removed, some Confederate groups in Alabama are planning to erect a Confeder- ate flag right across the street from the HBCU Alabama State
University in Montgomery.
The land was donated by a physician specifically for the flag's placement, but the groups have refused to give out the doc- tor's name because, said Dana Jones, a founding member of the First Capitol Flaggers, they didn't want anyone to "pitch a fit."
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