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Huggies Features Black Family For The First Time Ever On Packaging And Social Media Is Applauding
Huggies is being praised after launching new packag- ing featuring a Black father and daughter on the front of it for the first time in the company’s history.
A pic of the new packaging recently surfaced on social media and people are quickly reacting. “Huggies done went and put a Black father on the package of their diapers,” Joe Flowers, Jr. of Chicago wrote under a pic he posted on Facebook of the new prod- uct. “This is a first in history look how far we’ve come. I’m about to buy these for no rea- son whatsoever.”
The packaging is officially
titled Huggies Special Deliv- ery and are made from plant- based materials derived from sugarcane.
One of the other elements receiving positive recognition is that it is an image of a fa- ther and daughter rather than the typical mother/child combo duo most baby prod- uct brands have used in the past.
African-American Museum Founder Sadie Roberts-Joseph Murdered Over Back Rent
A convicted sex offender has been charged with activist Sadie Roberts-Joseph’s mur- der.
According to WBRZ, Baton Rouge police arrested 38-year-old Ronn Bell and charged him with first degree murder after originally being booked as a fugitive Monday night after he failed to pay a fee related to his sex offender registration.
Police say Bell was renting space in a prop- erty Roberts-Joseph owned and believe he killed her because he owed more than $1,200 in back rent. It isn’t clear if Roberts-Joseph knew of Bell’s criminal background prior to her death.
A report from 2007 via The Advocate re- vealed Bell pleaded guilty to sexual battery in- volving a 9-year-old girl. Rather than face a potential life sentence for aggravated rape, Bell reportedly agreed to a plea deal that put him in prison for seven years.
Sadie Roberts-Joseph, the founder of the Odell S. Williams Now & Then Museum of African-American History, was found dead in
the trunk of her car on Friday afternoon (July 12). An autopsy revealed that strangulation was the cause of her death.
A vigil was planned Wednesday night at the museum Roberts-Joseph founded in 2001.
SADIE ROBERTS-JOSEPH
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