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Total Solar Eclipse On Monday
Youngest Female Chick-fil-A Owner To Open First Store In Downtown L.A.
LOS ANGELES, CA —— Chick-fil-A franchise owner, Ashley Lamothe Derby, 31, was awarded the com- pany’s Symbol of Success, an honor reserved for Chick-fil- A operators whose busi- nesses experience particularly high sales growth. Derby is the owner and operator of a Chick-fil-A near the University of South- ern California in Los Angeles.
She began her career with Chick-fil-A at age 15, work- ing at a restaurant in her hometown of Marietta, Georgia. After entering Spel- man College, she began
Chick-fil-A franchise owner, Ashley Derby, 31, will open the first Chick-fil-A store in Down- town, L.A.
working at a Chick-fil-A near campus. Noticing her work ethic, her restaurant opera- tor pulled her aside and sug-
gested that she consider a ca- reer in leadership with the company. She changed her major from theater to eco- nomics.
After graduating from Spelman in 2006, she spent the next three years complet- ing numerous Chick-fil-A management and develop- ment programs. In 2011, at age 26, she became the youngest African-American female franchise owner in the history of the company.
The Atlanta native will soon open the very first Chick-fil-A location in down- town Los Angeles soon.
On August 21, a total solar eclipse will sweep across America, casting millions of people into temporary dark- ness. It will be the biggest as- tronomical event America has seen in almost a century, watched by millions of people from within the path of total- ity and tens of millions more who are outside it. One as- tronomer has said it will be the “most photographed, most shared, most tweeted event in human history.”
Here's what you need to know:
• A total solar eclipse oc- curs when the moon passes between Earth and the sun, blocking our view of the sun.
The moon's shadow first hits land north of Newport, Ore., at 10:15 a.m. Pacific time. It will then make its way southeast through Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. The shadow will leave the continental United States close to Charleston, S.C., at about 2:49 p.m. Eastern time.
Young Father Killed By Gunmen On Church Steps
CHICAGO, -IL —- On Sunday morning, two gun- men wearing bandanas ran towards a church shooting and killing two men.
Emmanuel Flemming and Michael Swift, 46, were killed walking up the steps of South Austin’s Friendship Baptist Church.
Flemming was an usher at the church and was taking his three kids to church, who are all under the age of 10. Swift who was not a member of the church was only visit- ing.
According to witnesses, the gunmen ran from a gas station across the street and began opening fire on the church.
Flemming’s yelled for his kids to take shelter inside
Chicago police are looking for 2 gunmen who left the scene in this SUV.
of the church.
When the sound of the
bullets could be heard, the congregation hit the floor for protection. A senior mem- ber recalling the incident re- members hearing the Fleming kids cry, “I want my dad!”
Flemmings was rushed to Stroger Hospital while Swift was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where they
were pronounced dead.
Rev. Reginald Bachus
was shocked by the event and told the Chicago Tribune, “It’s just hard for me to be- lieve that something like this could happen on a Sunday morning. Two young men on their way to church...I think that’s the hardest part for me to grasp.”
According to officials, the gunmen got away.
Merck CEO Steps Down After Trump Did Not Condemn Charlottesville Incident
Merck drug company CEO, Ken Frazier with Donald Trump.
Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank, far right.
DURHAM, NC —- Pro- testers in North Carolina have toppled a long-standing statue of a Confederate sol- dier.
Activists on Monday evening used a rope to pull down the monument outside a Durham courthouse. Video footage posted online shows protesters — some white, some black — kicking the crumpled bronze statue as dozens of people in the crowd cheered and chanted.
The Durham protest was in response to a white nation- alist rally held in Char- lottesville, Virginia, over the weekend. Authorities say one woman was killed Saturday after one of the white nation- alists drove his car into a group of peaceful counter- protesters.
A United Daughters of the
Protests Ignited All Over The Country In Response To Charlottesville White Supremacists Rally
President Trump finally called out neo-Nazis or white supremacists days after the Charlottesville tragedy — but he named and shamed Merck Drug Company’s African- American CEO.
Kenneth Frazier, head of the pharmaceutical giant, quit the American Manufacturing Council in protest of Trump’s highly criticized response to the violence in Charlottesville, Va.
Trump fired back in a tweeted response less than an hour after the announcement.
“Now that Ken Frazier of Merck Pharma has resigned from President's Manufactur- ing Council, he will have more time to LOWER RIPOFF
DRUG PRICES!” Trump tweeted.
More CEO’s have followed Frazier’s lead and have re- signed too.
Intel's Brian Krzanich and Under Armour head Kevin Plank have followed Merck's Ken Frazier in leaving the council.
Plank sent out a tweet on Monday condemning racism.
"We are saddened by #Charlottesville. There is no place for racism or discrimina- tion in this world. We choose love & unity."
Ten hours later, Plank re- leased another statement on Under Armour's Twitter ac- count announcing his resigna- tion from the advisory body.
A Confederate statute in Durham, NC was torn down by pro- testers in Durham, NC on Monday.
Confederacy website says the Confederate Soldiers Monu- ment was erected in 1924.
Several hundred people are marching through the streets of an Ohio city where the man accused of running down protesters in Virginia had been living.
A Texas lawmaker says Texas A&M University won’t
host a “white lives matter” rally on the campus next month.
Republican state Rep. John Raney said Monday that university chancellor John Sharp told him the event had been canceled due to “hate messages” on social media and police concerns of violence. The event had been scheduled for Sept. 11.
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