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Illinois Town Elects First Black Mayor
Entrepreneur Creates Hygiene Wipes For Men
ATLANTA, GA — Ladies, are you tired of your man’s poor personal hygiene “down there”? Are you tired of endlessly bat- tling this issue with your man and “taking one for the team?”
Wives, fiancés, and girlfriends it is time to start high-fiving be- cause your silent prayer has been answered!
Entrepreneur Derek Collins has launched Woody Wipes – one of the first of its kind, personal hygiene wipes for men.
More and more companies are finally giving male hygiene a second look, and for good rea- son.
Woody Wipes now enters the arena of personal hygiene prod- ucts and delivers wipes that are formulated to knock out odor.
Woody Wipes are stronger than baby wipes and designed to be used by men. They are in- expensive, flushable, and useful for removing body butter, lent balls, funk, musk, and even come in pocket-sized pouches so they can be taken discreetly on the go.
Woody Wipes claims to freshen up the male genitals.
The product is currently not available in stores, but is avail- able for pre-order at www.woodywipes.com and has a release date of June 1, 2017 – just in time for the summer!
Study: Having At Least 1 Black Teacher Reduces Dropout Rates For Black Students
MOUND CITY, IL —- Allison Madison has made history as not only the first woman to be elected as mayor of Mound City, Illinois, but as the first African- American, too.
Madison’s win came Tues- day after the small town decided to choose her as mayor.
“It’s history,” Madison said in an interview with news sta- tion KFVS 12. “Now that part, that’s amazing, that’s just awe- some to me and I guess I’m happy about that.”
Initially, Madison was not going to run, but reconsidered after deciding that she wanted to try and “make a difference in the town.”
Now that she has been elected, Madison wants to clean up the Mound City community, as well as bring in new business and help the youth.
Baton Rouge also made his- tory this year for electing its first-ever black woman mayor.
Sharon Weston Broome
was selected by the East Baton Rouge Parish for mayor when Broome beat her opponent Mack “Bodi” White in a tight race, that saw Broome receive 52 percent of the vote. She has succeeded fellow democrat Kip Holden, who served for 12 years as the first black mayor of the city.
A new working paper puts some numbers to that ques- tion.
Having just one Black teacher in third, fourth or fifth grade reduced low-income black boys’ probability of drop- ping out of high school by 39 percent, the study found.
And by high school, African- American students, both boys and girls, who had one African-American teacher had much stronger expectations of going to college. Keep in mind, this effect was observed seven to ten years after the experi- ence of having just one black teacher.
The study is big. The au- thors, Seth Gershenson and Constance A. Lindsay of American University, Cassan- dra M.D. Hart of U.C. Davis and Nicholas Papageorge
at Johns Hopkins, looked at long-term records for more than 100,000 black elemen- tary school students in North Carolina.
Then the researchers checked their conclusions by looking at students in a second state, Tennessee, who were randomly assigned to certain classes.
There they found that not only did the Black students as- signed to Black teachers grad- uate high school at higher rates, they also were more likely to take a college entrance exam. “The results line up strikingly well,” says Papa- george.
And this isn’t news to many African-American families who already feel strongly that their children need role mo- dels in their education.
Allison Madison was elected mayor of Mound City.
How important is it to have a role model?
Derek Collins has created a new product for men called Woody Wipes.
Essence In Trademark Dispute With ‘Black Girls Rock’ Founder Over #BlackGirlMagic
Essence and Black Girls Rock founder, Beverly Bond are in a trademark dispute over #BlackGirlMagic, however the origina- tor of the phrase, Cashawn Thompson is left in the dust.
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Karen Elaine Smith and her husband Cedric Anderson had been married for a few months.
Essence is currently em- broiled in a trademark dispute over the phrase “Black Girl Magic” with Beverly Bond, the founder of the organization Black Girls Rock!
The trademark claims are slightly different, with Essence wanting to claim “Essence Black Girl Magic,” while Bond wants “Black Girl Magic,” though it get more interesting when you con- sider the fact that Cashawn Thompson, who has widely been recognized as the origina- tor of the #BlackGirlMagic cam- paign, was not aware of this trademark dispute and was not involved in it.
As far back as August 2014, Bond registered her applica- tion for a trademark of “Black Girl Magic” and claimed First Use in Commerce, though the application was marked as abandoned in October of 2016.
However, earlier, in February, Bond had applied for a service mark application for the phrase, butting heads with Essence when, a month later, Essence applied to register “Essence Black Girl Magic” as a service mark.
Part of the core of Essence’s
argument is that #BlackGirl- Magic is a cultural slogan and the catch phrase of an entire movement, thus making it diffi- cult to trademark, which is why they added their brand name to the front of the phrase to differ- entiate it in their application.
Additionally, Essence argues, Bond didn’t originate the term in the first place.
In the meantime, however, Thompson, who has filed to trademark “Black Girls Are Magic,” is left feeling like these two big corporations have left her, the original creator, in the dust.
“More than anything, I’m just disappointed that two brands like Beverly Bond and Essence would be attempting to trademark something that came into popularity because I origi- nated it online,” Thompson said.
“I’m not a big name at all, and people like me are the ones coming up with the innovative ideas everyday and everyday getting erased in the process, and to me that’s just not good. I’m hoping the law catches up, so it won’t be so hard for people like me.”
SAN BERNADINO, CA — The man who opened fire at the North Park Elementary School in San Bernardino had even checked in at the front office in order to see his estranged wife, who he later killed.
His wife, Karen Elaine Smith, was a teacher at the school, and the two of them had only been married for a few months before separating about a month ago. The shooter was identified as Cedric Ander- son.
Smith’s mother, Irma Sykes, said that her daughter almost immediately regretted marrying Anderson, calling him a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” whose abusive, angry side came out only after they were married.
At one point, Anderson ac- cused Smith of infidelity, and Smith called her mother, terri- fied.
Eventually, Smith moved out of the house and intended to leave Anderson behind for good, not thinking that he would come to her school to come after her.
Anderson went to the front office to sign in to see his wife, which did not strike the school
as odd, since spouses often check in to drop things off with the teachers. He then went down to Smith’s special education classroom and opened fire be- fore turning his gun on himself.
Anderson and Smith both died at the scene, and two stu- dents were injured. One, an 8- year-old boy named Jonathan Martinez, has since died after being rushed to the hospital. A 9-year-old boy was also injured but is now reportedly in stable condition.
San Bernardino police Capt. Ron Maass said that the two children who were injured were not targets in this apparent mur- der-suicide.
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