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Headed To D.C.?: Two New African American Tours Offered
Several Women
Ex Twitter Bully- White
Donald Folden holds the sign advertising his tour.
WASHINGTON, DC — “Breaking into the tour mar- ket of DC is not easy when you’re trying to get people to #seemoreofdc and truly enjoy what we have to offer here, and your information is about Black people,” says Donald Folden.
Folden via his company, Capital Buddy Tours, has just launched 2 new African American history tours in the city – The DC Underground Railroad Tour and The DC Black History Night Tour. He has teamed up with DC Histo- rian, Mr. Hari Jones, as the tour guide.
“There are no premiere African American tours in the District of Columbia with its
rich African American his- tory, and it’s time to change that,” he says.
Folden says his tours start at the Anacostia Metro Sta- tion in Southeast DC because he wants to show people they don’t have to be afraid to leave the downtown area. He continues, “We try to expose them to other vibrant areas of DC, which is why we use the hashtag #seemoreofdc.
The new African American Museum is attracting a lot of people here, and this might just be the right time to offer these new experiences to show people that there’s more to DC than the Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial.
Milo Yiannopoulos was banned from Twitter.
press hurt Donald Trump’s chances of winning the elec- tion?”
Are you irritated yet? Be- cause if you are, you’re not alone. Twitter has been in an uproar since the news broke. The irony of this, of course, is that Yiannopoulos was banned from Twitter after or- chestrating a widespread, pernicious attack against “Ghostbusters” actress Leslie Jones.
Suing Loreal
Nationalist Inks Book Deal
After Relaxer
With Simon-Schuster
Burned Their
Ex-Twitter bully Milo Yiannopoulos may have been taken offline, but now he’ll be in print.
The “alt-right” editor at Breitbart News just signed a $250,000 book deal with Threshold Editions, an im- print of Simon & Schuster, as per an exclusive from The Hollywood Reporter.
Threshold Editions told The Huffington Post in an email that the book will be called Dangerous and is set to be re- leased on March 14, 2017. The imprint summarized the book by stating:
DANGEROUS will be a book on free speech by the outspoken and controversial gay British writer and editor at Breitbart News who de- scribes himself as “the most fabulous supervillain on the internet.”
“They said banning me from Twitter would finish me off. Just as I predicted, the opposite has happened,” Yiannopoulos told THR. “Did it hurt Madonna being banned from MTV in the 1990s? Did all that negative
Hair Out
Child’s Father, Woman’s Ex-Student Arrested For Murdering Them
Felicia Barahona and son, Miquel were allegedly killed by Isaac Infante.
Chicago Speeds Up Process To Equip Officers With Body Cameras
HARLEM, NY — A Pennsyl- vania man has been charged with murder in connection with the deaths of a mother and her 4-year-old son whose bod- ies were found in their Hamil- ton Heights apartment the day after Christmas.
Isaac Duran Infante, 23, faces two counts each of first- degree murder and second-de- gree murder in the case, police said Tuesday.
Felicia Barahona and her son, Miguel Barahona were found dead on last Monday in their apartment on W. 153rd Street near Broadway in Harlem.
The 36-year-old mother was found dead in the living room with an electrical cord wrapped around her neck, police said. The child was found sub- merged in a bathtub.
Her cause of death is ligature
strangulation and the child's cause of death is asphyxia due to neck compression. Both were determined to be homi- cide, according to the medical examiner.
A law enforcement said Barahona used to be a teacher at Clinton DeWitt High School in the Bronx, but was fired after having a sexual rela- tionship with Infante, who was her student at the time.
The suspect, Infante, is the father of the slain child and Barahona's former student.
A 2012 report by school in- vestigators found Barahona and Infante began a sexual re- lationship when the student turned 18.
That report found that Bara- hona believed she and In- fante would get married before their relationship ended, according to the AP.
NATIONWIDE — Several African American women who used L’Oréal’s SoftSheen-Car- son Hair Relaxer product are now suing the brand for $5 million dollars after their usage of the product resulted in burned scalps, blisters, burns, and snatched edges. The plaintiffs say the celebrity- backed product left them bald, and they are also demanding a recall of the product.
The exact name of the prod- uct is L’Oréal SoftSheen-Car- son Optimum Amla Legend No-Mix, No-Lye Relaxer, and that many users have had their hair completely destroyed. But L’Oréal fired back in a state- ment to the media, saying that its packaging clearly warns this very danger, and clearly instructs consumers on how to use it safely.
Lawyers Ben Meiselas and Mark Geragos, who rep the alleged victims, have slammed L’Oréal’s response, pointing out that the company is admitting the product has dangerous chemicals, despite advertising that it “protects the scalp and skin.” They say it’s downright absurd to blame the women harmed by the product, and they won’t relax until the relaxer itself is com- pletely pulled from the shelves.
CHICAGO, IL -- Chicago au- thorities say all police officers will be equipped with body cameras by the end of 2017, a year ahead of schedule.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel says in a Wednesday statement an- nouncing the speeded up schedule that body cameras "improve transparency while building trust."
Scrutiny of police intensified after the release of a squad-car video last year ago showing a white officer fatally shooting black teenager Laquan McDon- ald 16 times.
The Justice Department launched a civil rights investi- gation and Emanuel pledged sweeping reforms. The city launched its body-camera pro-
gram in 2015 and expanded it following protest over the Mc- Donald video.
Wednesday's statement did- n't include costs or camera numbers. But police said in September that 2,000 body cameras were in use and that 5,000 more would be bought for around $8 million.
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