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An Indiana Doctor Has Died From COVID-19 Complications Just Weeks After Reporting Racial Mistreatment On Behalf Of The Hospital
Statue Of Breonna Taylor Vandalized In Oakland
BREONNA TAYLOR STATUE
The New York Times reports that Dr. Susan Moore, a Black doctor, was refused ade- quate care and gaslighted about her pain from her white male doctor while admitted at the Indiana University North Hospital.
In a now viral video posted to Facebook, Moore shared her experience, documenting her positive coronavirus diag- nosis on November 29, un- timely discharge, and her eventual return back to the hospital. She noted that she had to beg her physician to treat her with the antiviral drug remdesivir as well as a CT scan of her neck and chest due to all the pain she was feeling.
The doctor however, initially
DR. SUSAN MOORE
declined to do both and in- stead questioned Moore’s symptoms and suggested she should be discharged instead. The doctor would eventually oblige but only after medical tests revealed Moore did in-
deed have new pulmonary in- filtrates in her lungs that war- ranted necessary and immediate attention.
“I put forth, and I maintain, if I was white, I wouldn’t have to go through that,” Moore said in her video. “I don’t trust this hospital, and I’m asking to be transferred. These people wanted to send me home with new pulmonary infiltrates and all kinds of lymphadenopathy in my neck. This is how Black people get killed. When you send them home and they don’t know how to fight for themselves. I have to talk to somebody, maybe the media, somebody, to let people know how I’m being treated up in this place.”
Oakland Police are investi- gating the vandalism of a bust of Breonna Taylor in the city’s downtown area. Taylor, a 26-year-old woman from Louisville, Kentucky, was killed by police earlier this year in a mistaken no- knock raid on her apartment. Her image became a nation- wide rallying point in this year’s protests against police brutality and anti-Black racism.
Leo Carson, the artist be-
hind the bust, told the San Francisco Chronicle that he was “devastated emotionally” by the bust being defaced. “It’s an attack on Breonna Taylor and Black Lives Mat- ter and it’s racist intimida- tion.” He has since started a GoFundMe to help raise funds to repair the bust. “Oakland will not tolerate acts of hatred,” Mayor Libby Schaaf wrote on Twitter in response to the vandalism.
Video Shows Woman Falsely Accusing Black Teen Of Stealing iPhone She Left In An Uber
A woman in New York City has been caught on camera falsely accusing a 14-year-old Black teenager of stealing her iPhone—before discovering that it was actually left be- hind in an Uber.
Keyon Harrold, a Grammy-winning jazz musi- cian, posted the footage to his Instagram this weekend. It shows him and his teen son in the lobby of a SoHo hotel where they were staying, when the unnamed woman falsely accuses the teenager of taking her cellphone and demanding that he give it back.
WOMAN WHO ACCUSED THE TEEN
The masked woman, who appears to be white, eventu- ally tackled the boy and tried to look in his pockets, Har- rold told The New York Times, and a hotel worker
asked the boy to produce the phone.
“I wonder what would happen if it were different, if it were a Black woman and there was a white 14-year- old... They assumed he was guilty,” Harrold said. He added that he was told by the hotel that the phone was later found by an Uber driver and brought back to the hotel, where the musician said he was told by managers that she was a guest earlier in the week.
In a statement, the Arlo hotel apologized to Harrold and his son.
Malik Sinegal: 23-Year-Old Black Pilot Becomes Youngest Ever Certified To Fly Boeing 777
For Malik Sinegal, dreams do come true. The 23- year-old recently became the youngest African American ever to be certified as a Boeing 777 pilot.
The Boeing 777 is the world’s largest twinjet plane, and it is typically not piloted by beginners. Yet, Sinegal flip the script – midair!
“The Triple 7 is one of the airplanes that people usually don’t touch until they’re around their forties or fifties or they have been at the air- lines for a very long time,” said Sinegal, a Biloxi, Missis-
MALIK SINEGAL
sippi native.
Sinegal’s dreams of flying
the big and power aircraft began in 2004, when he was on the jumbo plane when it
flew to Anchorage, Alaska, which he calls his favorite place in the world. In 2018, he entered Delta State Uni- versity’s aviation program as an ambassador for Republic Airlines. Through this educa- tional experience, he was able to travel around the world.
African American pilots of any age are a small popula- tion. In 2019, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that just 3% of the pilots of U. S. commercial airlines were Black. Sinegal credits his fly- ing prowess to his college flight instructors.
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