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Black Children See Themselves In Stories
Chicago Police Officers Who Kneeled In Support To Be Reprimanded
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL, MN — Children are told they can be anything. Lots of students want to be actors, singers and athletes when they grow up.
St. Paul native, and FAMU grad says it's his mission to encourage young Black boys, in particular, to rethink those dreams.
Mondo Davison, 31, has branded himself as "The Black Tech Guy.”
“I connect with the dream of becoming a professional athlete because I use to be that kid,” the project coordinator at Obama Elementary said.
“As the Black tech guy, my plan is to do something so amazing in technology that young Black boys and young Black girls consider tech as their plan A, is what he told a local newspaper in 2016.
Davison, the creator of a crowdfunding software called My Bar Jar, has taken his message and vision to a new level.
He has also created a digi-
The Black Tech Guy is a graduate of FAMU and an educator in the St. Paul school system.
tal reading library for children of color, called, Shortiez.
In a recent article, he talks about the fact that he didn't read a full book until the age of 20.
It wasn't because he could- n't read or didn't have access to books, but rather it was due to his lack of interest.
It wasn't until he was in college at FAMU that he fi- nally read a book cover to cover.
After becoming an educa- tor in St. Paul Public Schools,
he realized that not much has changed when it came to book resources. He notes that tradi- tional short stories and books were still just as bland and dis- connected to the minority ex- perience as he remembered from his childhood.
This was a major reason he came up with Shortiez.
Shortiez is a digital li- brary of culturally relevant short stories. The goal of Shortiez is to build the most robust digital platform of cul- turally relevant short stories.
These police officers in Chicago will be reprimanded for kneeling in support of Colin Kaepernick.
CHICAGO, IL - A Chicago activist who apparently asked two "men of color" to kneel with her on social media may have inadvertently earned the police officers reprimands, of- ficials said Monday.
Aleta Clark, who goes by the name "englewoodbarbie," on Instagram wrote on Sun- day: "That Moment when you walk into the police station and ask the Men of Color are they Against Police Brutality and Racism & they say Yes... then you ask them if they support Colin Kaper-
nick... and they also say yes... then you ask them to Kneel.!"
Anthony Guglielmi,
spokesman for the Chicago Police Department, said the department was not identify- ing the officers, however we will address it in the same way we have handled previous in- cidents in which officers have made political statements while in uniform, with a repri- mand and a reminder of de- partment policies.”
The Police Department's rules of conduct prohibit polit- ical activity on duty.
Navy Corpsmen Who Posted Black Baby Made To Dance To Rap And Called Them Mini-Satans Have Been Fired
Former Navy corpsmen Allyson Thomp- son and Joanie Barrett sent a snapchat mes- sage using a Black newborn to dance to rap and calling them mini-satan.
JACKSONVILLE, FL —- Two corpsmen at the Naval Hospital in Jacksonville have been fired after sharing images of themselves inap- propriately handling Black newborns and call- ing the babies “mini-Satans.”
The employees posted a Snapchat video a week ago, of a staff member moving the infant’s arms so that it looked like the baby was dancing while 50 Cent’s “In Da Club” plays in the back- ground.
They also posted a photo of an employee holding up her middle finger to a newborn with the caption: “How I currently feel about these ‘mini-Satans.’”
The video has now been shared more than a million times. The two culprits were identified as staff members, Allyson Thompson and Joanie Barrett.
The hospital shared a statement on Face- book Monday, saying the video is “outrageous, unacceptable, incredibly unprofessional, and cannot be tolerated.”
While the culprits have widely been referred to as “Navy nurses,” Thompson, 21, and Bar- rett, 23, are actually hospital corpsman and not registered nurses. Sean Cronin, a Jacksonville area attorney who has filed medical malpractice suits dozens of times against the Naval Hospital, told WJXT-TV that the corpsmen are the equiv- alent of civilian certified nurses assistants. They are supervised by doctors and nurses and are not licensed. He said he expects the women will face dishonorable discharge from the military and possible criminal charges, while their su- pervisors could also face punishment, including firing.
‘Lynched Man’ Used As Decor For Halloween
The yard was decorated for Halloween with a body hanging from a tree.
MARIETTA, GA — In Cobb County, Georgia neighbors are upset about a body hanging from a noose in another neigh- bors front yard as part of Hal- loween decorations.
The front yard is decorated with tombstones witches, skeletons and a hooded body with its hands and feet tied hanging from a noose.
A reporter went up to the house to see if he could get an answer for the decorations. A man answered saying that it was his roommates. He gave information to contact his roommate but nobody an- swered any calls. When the re- porter returned to the house for a response the decoration was taken down.
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