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Chicago Teen Arrested For Killing Her Mother
Jaimie Garnett and her daughter, Chastinea Reeves.
Ex-Engineer At Uber Says Company Has Culture Of Sex Harassment
SAN FRANCISCO, CA —- Uber is not known for treating its drivers particularly well, but it gets worse: According to alle- gations from an ex-engineer Susan J. Fowler, the ridesharing app has a culture of misogyny, and threatened to fire her after she reported sexual ha- rassment.
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has already responded to the al- legations, saying in a statement to Gizmodo, “What she de- scribes is abhorrent and against everything Uber stands for and believes in.”
In a blog post titled “Reflect- ing On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber,” Fowler alleges that when she began as the Site Reliability Engineer in late 2015, her boss solicited her for sex. In her own words:
On my first official day rotat- ing on the team, my new man- ager sent me a string of messages over company chat. He was in an open relationship, he said, and his girlfriend was having an easy time finding new partners but he wasn’t. He was trying to stay out of trouble at work, he said, but he couldn’t help getting in trouble, because he was looking for women to have sex with. It was clear that he was trying to get me to have sex with him, and it was so clearly out of line that I immedi- ately took screenshots of these chat messages and reported him to HR.
When Fowler first met with HR, she says they told her “even though this was clearly sexual harassment and he was proposi- tioning me, it was this man’s first offense ... he ‘was a high performer’” meaning upper management wouldn’t punish him with anything more than “a warning and a stern talking-to.”
She transferred teams. When she later became friends with other women at Uber, she says many had experiences similar to her own. Fowler claims they told her “stories about reporting the exact same manager [she] had reported, and had [also] re- ported inappropriate interac- tions with him.” Kalanick said he has instructed the company's chief human resources officer to look into the blog post, adding "there can be absolutely no place for this kind of behavior at Uber."
Atlanta Billboard Advertises National Trend And New Documentary
Billboard has caused a lot of stir and conversation.
CHICAGO, IL —- Chicago teen has been arrested for the killing of her mother after being the subject of an Amber Alert on Monday. She has been charged as a juvenile for the murder.
Chastinea Reeves became the subject of an Amber Alert on Monday when authorities discovered her mother’s body in their Gary home. They were concerned at the time that the teen was in danger.
Reeves had gone to a neigh- bors home with her 4-year-old sister in tow. The witness said the girl was hysterical and say- ing that something terrible had happened to her mother, 34- year-old Jaimie Garnett. The neighbor went to the phone to call the police, and that is when
Reeves disappeared out the back door.
It was announced on Thurs- day that the Lake County pros- ecutor wants to try Reeves as an adult for the killing of Gar- nett, but there is a process to doing that.
According to the Lake County prosecutor, he is not allowed to discuss the case because juve- nile cases are secret. That is why he cannot say how Gar- nett was murdered at this time, though the information will be released during a hear- ing on April 12. That is when prosecutors will ask the judge to try Reeves as an adult.
The teen is currently in cus- tody at the Lake County Juve- nile Detention Center in Crown Point.
Drivers heading down I- 285 near Camp Creek Park- way have been faced with a billboard unlike most of the others they pass.
Displayed across a black background, bold white let- ters in all caps read: BLACK PEOPLE ARE BEING PUSHED OUT OF AT- LANTA.
That controversial message, referring to gentrification in the city, comes at a time when concerns about affordable housing have been increas- ingly in the spotlight.
In March, the Rev. Joe Beasley, a longtime civil rights activist in Atlanta, ac- cused former Atlanta mayor Shirley Franklin in an email of causing “the gentrifi- cation of Atlanta.”
A couple months later, a group of housing activists were at City Hall calling for
new policies to help renters and homeowners squeezed by rising housing costs and stag- nant wages.
When Journey Men’s Shel- ter closed in November after more than 30 years in At- lanta, its executive director named the increase of hous- ing costs and gentrification in the area as reasons more are at risk of losing their homes.
Along with the attention- grabbing message, the ad also includes a date, a website URL and a disclaimer that it’s paid for by Black Channel Films.
The Billboard was promot- ing a new documentary, "Gentrified.”
The website says it explores “the unspoken ethnic compo- nent behind the most devas- tating socioeconomic movement in American soci- ety today.”
Black Conservative Hired At HUD Fired For Trump Stand
Shermichael Singleton was fired. Here he is shaking Dr. Ben Carson’s hand as Omarosa looks on.
WASHINGTON —Sher- michael Singleton, a senior adviser in the Department of Housing and Urban Develop- ment, was fired from Presi- dent Donald Trump’s administration Wednesday after it was revealed he had once written an op-ed for The Hill in which he suggested con- servatives had a moral obliga- tion to “stand up to Trump.”
Singleton, one of the few Black conservatives in the Trump administration ac- cording to The New York Times, had been employed at HUD since January, but was summarily released after his op-ed was discovered during the vetting process. He was helping prepare Ben Carson,
expected to be confirmed to lead HUD later this month, for a cross country tour at the time of his termination.
In October 2016, Singleton wrote that “[the Republican] party in particular has allowed itself to be taken over by some- one who claims to be a Repub- lican but doesn’t represent any of our values, principles or tra- ditions. We allowed that hostile takeover to happen on our watch.”
Singleton further wrote he was concerned with the “man- ner in which GOP nominee Donald Trump portrays our inner cities as if they are the ail- ments of American society and should be exterminated and swiftly removed.”
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