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Ex-Versace Employee Says Secret Code Used When Black Shoppers Entered Store
Foster Child’s Adoption Photo Goes Viral
Largest Police Union Wants Amazon To Pull ‘Black Lives Matter’ Merchandise
Versace Code For Black Shoppers... ‘D410.’
PHOENIX, AZ --- Just in time for Christmas, a 3-year- old boy who was in foster care for 832 days has finally found his forever family.
Tara Montgomery said the adoption took place on Dec. 20 in Phoenix, Arizona, after Michael was living with her family for more than a year.
"Michael was placed with us on Feb. 14, 2015, when he was 18 months old. We were his third foster family," she said. "His original case plan was reunification with his 'bio-mom.' When that plan failed, a new plan was set. As a single parent, I was not looking to adopt, just to help kids during transition."
Montgomery's daughter
Dae Brown posted a photo
of Michael on Twitter. It has
been retweeted nearly 50,000
times. mom.
The young women who took the course. One of their profes- sors, Dr. Dianne Stewart was voted as the ‘best and most caring professor’ in her division by her colleagues and students in 2016.
BAY AREA, CA --- Versace secretly alerts staffers when an African-American person en- ters the store ... according to an ex-employee who claims the company also dissed his fash- ion sense and then canned him.
The man worked in a Bay Area store, and in a lawsuit says a manager told him about a store code called "D410," which was used to casually let co-workers know a Black per- son was present -- as in, we got a D410 in menswear.
BTW ... that's the code for all black shirts in Versace stores ... according to the suit.
The employee says he shocked the manager by re- sponding, "You know that I'm African-American?"
He says after that revelation they refused to give him rest breaks, and fired him after just 2 weeks. In the suit, he says he was told he was canned be- cause he hadn't "lived the lux- ury life."
Translation: you got no swag, son.
He's suing for unpaid wages and damages. Versace denied the allegations, and has al- ready filed a request for dis- missal of the suit.
Emory University Offering Course On ‘The Power Of Black Self-Love’’
Michael Brown’s reaction after being adopted by foster
A&E Series On KKK Cancelled
The A&E network has pulled the plug on its contro- versial KKK show, Escaping the KKK, a docuseries that was going to follow people at- tempting to extricate them- selves from the Ku Klux Klan. Although the series received massive criticism, it was only cancelled because the net- work discovered that partici- pants were paid, a violation of the network’s policies.
The network stated that “cash payments—which we currently understand to be nominal—were made in the field to some participants in order to facilitate access. While we stand behind the in- tent of the series and the seri- ousness of the content, these payments are a direct viola- tion of A&E’s policies and practices for a documentary.
Members of the KKK were paid to participate in series.
We had previously provided assurances to the public and to our core partners—includ- ing the Anti-Defamation League and Color of Change— that no payment was made to hate group members, and we believed that to be the case at the time. We have now de- cided not to move forward with airing this project.”
The BLM shirts the union wants Amazon to ban.
The largest police union in the country has requested Amazon follow Walmart’s lead and stop selling Black Lives Matter merchandise they’ve labeled “offensive.”
In an open letter to the on- line retailer, Fraternal Order of Police president Chuck Canterbury urged CEO Jeff Bezos to remove all apparel with slogans “BULLET- PROOF," "Black Lives Matter" and "Hands up, don't shoot" from Amazon's website.
He encouraged Bezos to stand by the police union in “increasing the bonds of trust between the men and women of law enforcement and the communities they serve.”
The police order recently succeeded in having merchan- dise removed from Walmart’s online stores after accusing the retailer and the third-party sellers peddling the products to profit “from racial division.”
Describing Amazon as a “pretty liberal marketer,” Can- terbury said some of their ap- parel has prompted a lot of tension between officers and members ot their community.
ATLANTA, GA --- The lack of positivity surrounding Black Americans has launched a wave of empower- ing social movements over the years, including Black Girl Magic and the online commu- nity of Black Twitter.
Now, Emory University is giving students the chance to study the positive impact of African-Americans loving ourselves with its “The Power of Black Self-Love” course, which it offered during the fall 2016 semester.
“The Power of Black Self- Love” developed out of the in- tersections of religion professor Dr. Dianne Stew- art’s class called “Black Love” and liberal arts instruc- tor Dr. Donna Troka’s “Resisting Racism: From
Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter” course, according to Emory News Center.
The desire for students to explore themes such as Black love and political movements in Black history ultimately led to a 10-student, one-hour course co-taught by Stewart and Troka. The course re- quired each student to dive deeply into topics of their choosing to better under- stand the subjects covered in class, which included social media’s impact on Black Lives Matter and Black Twit- ter’s growing power and in- fluence over the past several years.
The students’ final projects, which were presented in De- cember, were meant to depict examples of Black self-love.
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