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UMHS Class Of 2020: Dr. Cynthia Kudji & Daughter Jasmine Both Match At LSU Health In Louisiana
UMHS Class of 2020 gradu- ate Dr. Cynthia Kudji had a doubly delightful surprise on Match Day last month. She matched in Family Medicine at LSU Health in Louisiana and learned that her daughter, Dr. Jasmine Kudji, also matched at LSU in General Surgery. It was a huge thrill for the mother and daughter doc- tor duo because after years studying medicine at a dis- tance—Cynthia was in St. Kitts and Maine at UMHS while her daughter Jasmine was at LSU School of Medicine in Louisiana—the two will be working in the same hospital system starting July 1, 2020. These groundbreaking women are the first mother and daugh-
UMHS 2020 graduate Dr. Cynthia Kudji (left) & her daughter, Dr. Jasmine Kudji. Both women attended med school at the same time & matched in the same hospital system, LSU Heatlh.
ter to attend medical school at the same time and match at the same institution.
The mother and daughter doctor duo took time to speak to the UMHS Endeavour via telephone, enthused about
sharing their inspiring story in this very unusual spring of 2020, a time when the COVID- 19 pandemic is killing thou- sands in the U. S. and doctors are so desperately needed on the front lines.
Investor Frank Baker Pays Off Tuition For Spelman Graduates
Frank Baker, an African- American investor who heads the billion-dollar private equity firm Siris, has paid off the re- maining tuition balances for the 2020 class of graduates at Spelman College and estab- lished a $1 million scholarship to help future graduates of the all-woman HBCU.
The businessman covered the debt for nearly 50 students graduating from Spelman this year with a payment that to- taled $250,000, according to Forbes.
Baker said he was inspired to make the move after another successful black investor, Robert Smith, paid off the
FRANK BAKER
debt of the graduating class of Morehouse College in 2019.
Miami Mother Admits To Lying About Two Black Men Drowning Her Autistic Son
A Miami woman has been taken into custody for admit- ting to drowning her autistic 9- year-old son on Thursday night (May 21), after first telling police two Black men committed the murder. Miami-Dade homicide detec- tives charged Patricia Rip- ley, 47, with first-degree murder.
On Thursday, Ripley told police her son Alejandro Ripley had been kidnapped by two robbers who ran her car off the road Thursday night, sparking a statewide manhunt and Amber alert. The search ended early Friday when Ale- jandro's body was found in a pond at the Miccosukee Golf & Country Club.
Ripley called police on Thursday night and said a light-blue car forced her car off
Patricia Ripley confessed she herself killed her 9-year-old.
the road near a West Kendall Home Depot. She claimed two Black men were inside, going so far as to describe one as hav- ing cornrows. One of men jumped out with a knife, she told Miami-Dade police, and demanded drugs. She said when she told them she didn’t have any, they took her child
and drove away.
A source familiar with the
investigation said a security camera at a Home Depot near where the alleged abduction took place showed Ripley sit- ting in her car alone — without Alejandro — for 20 minutes before she called police at 8:47 p.m. on Thursday.
After Third Arrest In Ahmaud Arbery Killing GBI Outlines Next Steps
The director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is an- nouncing that the investigation into the killing of Ahmaud Arbery is expected to be com- pleted soon and then handed over to the district attorney.
On Friday morning (May 22), Vic Reynolds held a news conference and spoke about the status of his depart- ment’s investigation and the steps they’re taking moving forward after the arrest of William Bryan, a third per- son charged for being involved in Arbery’s killing. Bryan
WILLIAM BRYAN
also filmed the February shoot- ing.
Memorial Day Weekend Madness: 2 Shot, Six Injured In Daytona Beach
During Memorial Day Weekend as expected, unfortu- nately, and all across the coun- try, many thousands are straight-up not even try to uti- lize social distancing rules while mingling in public.
All across the country, there are plenty of pool parties and other celebrations that are going down without violence,. However, we can’t say the same for one event in Florida that was straight up buck wild and resulted in two people
Scene from Daytona Beach
being shot and several injured in other ways.
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