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Public Park Site In Baltimore Renamed Harriet Tubman Grove
BALTIMORE, MD — A public park area in Baltimore that once honored two Confed- erate Army generals has been renamed for civil rights icon Harriet Tubman.
Hundreds of people, in- cluding city officials and Tub- man family members, gathered in Wyman Park Dell for the ceremony on Saturday, held on the 105th anniversary of her death, The Baltimore Sun re- ported.
The site, now named Har- riet Tubman Grove, features a barren pedestal that once held bronze statues of Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson on horseback.
Mayor Catherine Pugh’s
administration ordered the re- moval of all four of the city’s Confederate monuments in August following the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. It’s unclear when or if the three other former Confederate me- morial sites will be rededi- cated.
Hundreds of people including family members attended the rededication ceremony held on the 105th anniversary of Harriet Tubman’s death.
Man Kills And Sets Ex-Girlfriend Afire Over Paternity Test
Antwuan Ware is being held on $1 million bond for the mur- der of his ex-girlfriend, Jasmine Dunbar.
PHOENIX, AZ —A young mother who was last seen with a former boyfriend was killed and set afire.
She had told two people that they were going to get a pater- nity test for her baby, Phoenix police said last Thursday.
Authorities searching a field in Glendale found a burned body tentatively identified as Jasmine Dunbar, 21. The re- mains were discovered last Wednesday after police inter- viewed the ex-boyfriend, Antwaun Travon Ware, 20.
Ware “admitted he had a physical altercation with Jas- mine and punched her a num- ber of times with his fist,” police said in a probable cause statement.
Ware told police Dunbar was still alive when he dumped her body in a field. He then
dropped her 7-month-old daughter in a car seat along a street about 4 miles from her mother’s home, police said. He told officers he left her there because, "He saw people nearby and believed they would find her and take care of her."
Ware then returned to where he had dumped the child's mother.
According to the police re- port, Ware "put a piece of paper on the body and then poured gasoline on her. He then set it afire with a cigarette. Antwaun watched as Jas- mine burned and the fire put itself out.”
Ware was jailed on suspi- cion of first-degree murder, kidnapping, abandonment of a body and child abuse. His bond was set at $1 million Thursday.
Uber Exec Says ‘White Men’ Need To Diversify Their Workplaces
Uber’s Chief Brand Offi- cer Bozoma Saint John is calling on white men to ac- tively diversify their work- places.
Since taking the position last June, Saint John has made it her mission to revital- ize the global car sharing com- pany; often stressing the importance of changing the conversation about workplace culture and diversity.
“I want white men to look around in their office and say, ‘Oh look, there’s a lot of white men here. Let’s change this,'”
BOZOMA SAINT JOHN
Saint John said at the SXSW festival on Sunday. “ Why do I — as the Black woman — have to fix that? There’s 50 of you, there’s one of me. Y’all fix it. ... Everybody else needs to make the noise — I want white men to make the
noise.”
Uber, released its first di-
versity report in March 2017, which showed that it had no technical leaders who are Black or Hispanic. Among non-tech- nical leadership positions, 3.7% were black and 1.2% were Hispanic.
African Meeting House In Massachusetts Vandalized
Jacksonville Teacher Suspended For Using N-Word; Telling Students Not To Date Black
JACKSONVILLE, FL —- David Swinyar, a teacher at Kernan Middle School in Jack- sonville, was suspended for 10 days without pay for allegedly using the N-word in his class- room and calling students dumb and making other racist or inflammatory comments.
Shortly after the incident, one male student left the class- room to report Swinyar’s “aggressive tone and de- meanor” to his mother, but Swinyar followed the stu- dent, “began ‘yelling’ at him ... [and] also snatched the phone out of his hand,” the report said.
Another student told district
Middle school teacher David Swinyar still has a job even after a racial slur and telling his students not to date Black guys.
investigators that Swinyar had been discussing relation- ships when he told students: “If your boyfriend says bad things to you and/or treats you wrong, that means that he’s acting like a n—–,” and, “You all should not be dating all these different African Ameri- can boys because they are not worth it.”
Many people are question- ing why Swinyar was not fired but instead , according to Duval County School Superin- tendent Patricia Willis, ‘he will be reassigned to an appro- priate district position with no contact with students for the remainder of the year.”
This is a cultural events house in Nantucket that was vandal- ized over the weekend.
NANTUCKET, MA — Com- munity members who fre- quently visit the African Meeting House for cultural events in Nantucket, Massa- chusetts found racist graffiti sprawled across the decades- old building over the week- end.
“Take a good look. This isn’t some far off place — this is racist terror in my district,” wrote Massachusetts State
Senator Julian Cyr in a Face- book post on Sunday. “Nan- tucket woke up this morning to its African Meeting House attacked in the most vile and heinous of ways.”
The Nantucket Police De- partment is investigating the vandalism, which occurred sometime Saturday night or Sunday morning, Nan- tucket’s The Inquirer and Mir- ror reported.
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