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Nation’s Oldest Park Ranger Attacked In Her Home
Domestic Violence Believed To Be Behind Young Model’s Murder
ATLANTA, GA --- The start of the July 4th weekend has been tragic for family and friends of JoKisha “Kisha” Brown, who was gunned down in Atlanta on Friday, July 1, a day ahead of her 36th birth- day. It’s suspected by friends who express their grief on so- cial media that Brown was a victim of domestic violence.
Brown, who starred in “Bloodline,” was shot multiple times while sitting in her black Mercedes-Benz SUV in a shop- ping strip on Cheshire Bridge Road. According to friends, she was getting her makeup done to celebrate her 36th birthday.
So far there are no suspects, even though there were several people on the scene.
Gun violence was not a stranger to Brown and her
JoKisha ‘Kisha’ Brown and her brother, Marlon Brice were both murdered.
family. Just three months ago, Brown started a GoFundMe following the death of her brother Marlon Brice, who had been murdered in Jack- sonville, Florida
FYI: Person Running The DNC Making History, Too
The Reverend Doctor Leah Daughtry
WASHINGTON, DC --- Hillary Clinton is not the only person making history at the DNC.
Dr. Leah Daughtry, chief executive officer of the Demo- cratic National Convention, will make history in more ways than one. Dr. Daughtry serves as a strong, unapolo- getic political figure helping change the trajectory of an event almost as big as the in- auguration.
Coming from a strong reli- gious background, Reverend Doctor Leah Daughtry is a fifth generation pastor.
She is a 1984 graduate of Dartmouth College. She’s also worked with Reverend Jesse Jackson.
Daughtry has held several senior posts at the United
States Department of Labor such as Senior Advisor to the Secretary, Chief of Staff and acting Assistant Secretary for Administration and Manage- ment. Daughtry also has previous experience with Clinton campaigns.
In 1992, Daughtry worked on the Clinton-Gore transi- tion team. Daughtry is one of very few people who has worked with both the former President and First Lady in their Presidential capacity.
Daughtry is know for in- fluencing the Democratic Party in reaching out to the faith community She founded Faith in Action, the Demo- cratic Party’s outreach to the faith community.
She is the FIRST to ever manage the Democratic Na- tional Convention twice.
BETTY REID SOSKIN
State Senator Outlines Plan To Fight Gentrification In New York City
RICHMOND, CA -- The na- tion’s oldest park ranger, Betty Reid Soskin, 94, was beaten and robbed in her home last week
On Monday, June 27, Soskin, a ranger at the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park, was attacked in her Richmond, Cal- ifornia home around midnight, at which time she awoke to find a man standing over her with a flashlight.
Soskin says she tried to call for help on her cellphone, but the burglar took the phone, forcing a struggle between the two. During that time, Soskin says the intruder dragged her through the home, striking her multiple times.
Despite her wounds, Soskin was able to escape to a bath- room, where she locked herself inside and armed herself with a hot iron should the suspect re- turn, reports say. Once the man left, Soskin exited her safe room to discover the thief had raided her residence, making off with personal belongings like a coin marked with the presidential seal that was given to her by President Obama at the national tree-lighting ceremony in December.
NEW YORK CITY -- Impov- erished areas throughout this country, including Tampa, with primarily Black tenants have fallen prey to gentrification, eventually forcing them out.
A 2015 report published by New York University’s Furman Center found a decline of Blacks in gentrifying neighbor- hoods from 1990 to 2010 (37.9 percent to 30.9 percent).
Gentrification is taking New York City by storm and New York State Senator Adriano Espaillat has a plan to help preserve dying neighborhoods.
The House of Representa- tives hopeful could potentially become the first Dominican- American in Congress. His po- litical ambitions aim to prevent the Bronx and Washington Heights from undergoing the same removal of culture that Harlem currently suffers from. Espaillat’s proposal, “Protect- ing the Character of our Neigh- borhood: A Strategy on Displacement”, outlines a five rule process for housing devel- opment in what would be con- sidered ‘gentrification mitigation zones’:
Residents should have the right of first refusal for sale of residential buildings.
In order to give residents a fair chance in exercising their right of first refusal, HUD
New York state senator Adriano Espaillat is cam- paigning for Congress.
would provide federally backed mortgages and assist in the for- mation of a housing coopera- tive.
New residential develop- ments must provide a manda- tory community impact statement, detailing how the development would affect the neighborhood.
Relocation assistance for residents displaced from a zone, through transfer tax (“for example, between .5% and 1% of the building’s sale price”).
Developers of new buildings would be required to meet with community members, who will be allowed to voice their con- cerns and give input about gen- trification concerns.
Espillat is set to make his- tory as he leads in the election to succeed Rep. Charlie Rangel.
Black MBAs Move National Headquarters To Atlanta
Officers of the National MBAs.
Black Lives Matter Activists Temporarily Shutdown Toronto Pride Parade
TORONTO, CANADA -- A group of Black Lives Matter ac- tivists temporarily shut down Canada’s largest gay pride pa- rade on last Sunday, when they stopped marching until the pa- rade organizers agreed to their demands.
BLM, which was invited to march in the gay-rights cele- bration as an honorary group, stopped two-thirds of the way down the parade route, began chanting “Shut it down!” and lit several flares.
The parade was stalled for
about half an hour, until Toronto Pride Director Math- ieu Chantelois, whose group puts on the parade, met with the protesters and signed off on the list of demands.
The demands included an
end to police floats at the pa- rade and more spots dedicated to groups representing queer people of color. The BLM de- mand sheet said Pride Toronto had engaged in “anti-Black racism” by reducing the visibil- ity of gay people of color in the march.
Mike McCormack, who heads the Toronto police union, said Pride organizers should be ashamed of them- selves for agreeing to the ban on police representation in the march.
ATLANTA, GA --- The Na- tional Black MBA Association Inc. has moved its headquar- ters from Chicago to Atlanta after a nearly 50-year run in the 2nd City.
The NBMBAA® hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony to commemorate this milestone.
The NBMBAA was founded by MBA students at the Uni- versity of Chicago 46 years ago.
The National Black MBA As- sociation® is one of the largest professional member-based organizations in the country, serving more than 9,800
members across 45 profes- sional chapters, with the largest of those chapters being located in Atlanta.
Its annual conference, which draws average atten- dance of more than 10,000, has been hosted in Atlanta five times.
President/CEO Jesse Tyson revealed the rationale for moving from the Midwest to the Deep South was the mammoth business commu- nity; the academic commu- nity; the corporate partnerships with Coca Cola, Bank of America, Geor gia Pa- cific, and Chick-fil-A.
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