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High Number Of Black Women Running For Office In Alabama
HBCU History Museum Now Open In D.C.
BIRMINGHAM, AL — Jameria Moore, a 49-year- old attorney running for a judgeship on the Jefferson County Probate Court, is one of about 36 African-American women who are running for of- fice as Democrats across deep- red Alabama.
It's an unprecedented num- ber, according to party offi- cials. Many, like Moore, are running for the first time. And many, like Moore, say Demo- crat Doug Jones' unexpected Senate victory in December in- spired them to take a chance.
But there's more to this wave of Black women candi- dates than that.
More than 35 black women have launched campaigns or re-election efforts, and more than three-quarters of them are running in Birmingham, in
Jameria Moore is running for judge.
state and county judicial races, or for seats in the state legisla- ture. Organizers and local offi- cials say it's evidence of a small but significant Democratic burst of political activism that could put a blue-hued dent in a deep-Trump state.
WASHINGTON, D. C. The first museum devoted to hon- oring and documenting histor- ically black colleges and universities has opened its doors in Washington, D. C.
The HBCU Museum, located on Georgia Avenue, opened March 9, and it’s been attract- ing national media attention.
“Our goal is to highlight the accomplishments of not only HBCUs, but some of their most accomplished graduates,” reads the museum’s mission statement.
The venture is both family- run and mostly family-funded, museum executive director Terrence Forte told the Washington Business Journal. Both of his parents attended
The HBCU History Museum.
museum will serve as a point of education.
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gether, the family hopes the
University and, to-
Byron Allen Buys The Weather Channel For $300M
Former University Of Cinncinnati Cop Who Killed Sam DuBose Awarded $350,000
HOLLYWOOD, CA — Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios has acquired the Weather Channel for an estimated $300 million.
Allen bought the Weather Group through his company Allen Media LLC, from The Blackstone Group, Bain Capi- tal, and Comcast/NBCUniver- sal, The Wrap reported. Those companies picked up the Weather Channel's parent company for $3.5 billion back in July 2008.
The Weather Channel, which debuted in 1982, joins Enter- tainment Studio's portfolio of eight other 24/7 cable televi- sion networks.
Allen told Bloomberg News he wants to invest more in the Weather Channel, ex- panding both its international and local distribution. It's part
Byron Allen adds the Weather Channel to his 8 other cable networks.
of a broader strategy to invest what he said would be billions of dollars in the media and en- tertainment industry.
The deal does not include the Weather Group's digital as- sets like weather.com, Weather Underground or digital apps, which were acquired by IBM in 2015.
CINCINNATI, OH — The University of Cincinnati on Thursday awarded the officer who shot and killed unarmed black motorist Sam DuBose with a settlement worth nearly $350,000, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The settlement comes after the Ohio police union filed a grievance for University of Cincinnati Officer Raymond Tensing, who was fired fol- lowing DuBose’s 2015 death. Tensing agreed to officially resign in exchange for $244,230 in back pay and benefits and $100,000 for legal fees.
Tensing fatally shot Du- Bose during a routine traffic stop in July 2015. He said he stopped DuBose for a missing
Former Officer Raymond Tensing was awarded $350,000 by the Univ. Of Cincinnati. Tensing fatally shot Sam DuBose during a stop on the campus.
front license plate and discov- ered the motorist was driving with a suspended license. Tensing claimed that Du- Bose tried to drive away dur- ing the interaction, saying DuBose dragged him with his
car and forced him to open fire. However, body cam footage later revealed that this claim was false and that he actually shot DuBose while the vehicle was still.
Hamilton County Prosecu- tor Joe Deters said that the former officer will never be convicted of the charges filed against him, including murder and voluntary manslaughter. Earlier this year, Deters de- cided not to try for a third trial citing two mistrials in which jurors said they could not come to a unanimous decision.
The university also reached a $4.85 million civil settlement with DuBose’s family, but have only paid about $100,000 of that sum out-of-pocket, re- ports the Enquirer.
Teen Biker Shocked With Stun Gun Awarded $500,000
Monique Tillman was assaulted by Officer Jared Williams.
Boko Haram Releases 100 Girls Kidnapped A Month Ago
TACOMA, WA —- Washing- ton state teenager, Monique Tillman who was pulled from her bicycle in a mall parking lot four years ago and shocked with a stun gun by an off-duty officer working security has been awarded $500,000 in federal court.
The jury issued the award on Thursday after she sued Officer Jared Williams and the city of Tacoma over the May 2014 en-
counter caught on surveillance video. Her brother Eric Branch was awarded $50,000.
Security footage captured Williams throwing the then 15- year-old Tillman to the ground by her hair after she and Branch, then 16, were bicycling through the mall parking lot. Williams was in his Tacoma po- lice cruiser and in uniform when he turned on the car’s lights and pulled them over.
DAPCHI, NIGERIA ― Is- lamist militants drove scores of kidnapped Nigerian school- girls back into the town where they had been captured a month ago and abruptly set them free on Wednesday.
The captors gave no answer for their release, but Nigeria denied that a ransom had been paid. Several of the girls said some of their friends had died in captivity and one was still being held.
The fighters from the Boko Haram group, some shouting “God is greatest,” drove the girls back into the northeast town of Dapchi in a line of trucks in the morning, dropped them off then left, witnesses told Reuters.
“I don’t know why they brought us back but they said
because we are children of Muslims,” one of the freed girls, Khadija Grema, told Reuters.
Nigeria’s information min- ister, Lai Mohammed, told Reuters 76 released girls had been registered so far, while “others went straight home to
their parents, but they will come for documentation later.” “No ransom was paid to them to effect this release. The only condition they gave us is not to release [the girls] to the military but release them in the town of Dapchi without the
military presence.”
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