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Mom Outraged When Son Comes Home From School With 3 Teeth Extracted
BALTIMORE, MD — When Shanda Flemming signed a permission slip regarding a dental program that was vis- iting her son’s school, she thought she was agreeing to a simple routine cleaning.
However, as WJZ reports, the Baltimore mother was in for a rude awakening after her third-grader came home from school with not one, not two, but three of his teeth missing.
According to Flemming, the dental procedure was performed without her
knowledge, and she is not sure why the school allowed serious dental work to take place without making a single phone call.
Flemming’s son, 9-year- old Michael, was still in pain after the procedure and crying over it, according to Flemming.
The procedure caused Michael to miss the school bus, so he was forced to walk almost a mile home after hav- ing had three teeth extracted.
The school declined com- ment after the news broke.
Florida Judge Accused Of Racist And Sexist Remarks Resigns
JACKSONVILLE, FL —- Jacksonville Circuit Judge Mark Hulsey, facing allega- tions of making racist and sexist remarks, resigned Monday, according to the Tampa Times.
Reportedly, Hulsey had emailed his resignation to Florida Gov. Rick Scott.
Hulsey was facing a po- tential investigation in the Florida Legislature and was also facing a hearing where the Florida Judicial Qualifica- tions Commission was seek- ing his removal from office.
Hulsey, who narrowly won re-election in August, is ac- cused of saying Black people should “go back to Africa” and female staff attorneys are “like cheerleaders who talk during the national anthem.”
The Judicial Qualifications Commission also accused
Jacksonville Circuit Judge Mark Hulsey has resigned.
Hulsey of misusing his judi- cial assistant and the staff at- torneys responsible for helping all the judges in the Jacksonville-based 4th Judi- cial Circuit. The complaints say he used staff attorneys to prepare scripts for routine ju- dicial tasks and required one to regularly do his work for him.
Rising Above Many Obstacles: Woman, 22, Is Running For Mayor Of Detroit
DETROIT, MI — Myya D. Jones has overcome a great number of obstacles in her 22 years of life. She helped raise her five siblings after her mother, who has bipolar disorder, fell into a deep de- pression when Jones was in fifth grade.
Before that, she was sexu- ally abused.
When she was in ninth grade Jones discovered that the man she thought was her father — wasn't her biological father at all.
And later Jones would be diagnosed with bipolar disor- der herself.
But none of that stopped her from being accepted into Cass Technical High School and later being awarded 18
Myya Jones is a student at Michigan State University.
scholarships to attend Michi- gan State University, where she's currently studying busi- ness management.
Her resume includes a stint as the president of the Na- tional Pan Hellenic Council, an internship on Capitol Hill with Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence (D- Mich), and two positions on the board of the National As- sociation of Black Account- ants.
She's been a Google Stu- dent Ambassador, she sat on MSU's Sexual Violence Advi- sory Committee, and she's studied abroad in six differ- ent countries.
Jones, who was born and raised in Detroit, wants to use those experiences — those personal lows as well as those personal triumphs — to help enact change in her hometown.
New App Let’s Men Shop Like A Boss
Shop like a boss.
Isaac Ewell believes look- ing good shouldn’t cost you a fortune.
Ewell, a Morehouse and Harvard grad, left a lucrative job in education to lead a bur- geoning startup company, Onehunted.
This Philadelphia-based tech-lifestyle brand offers events and experiences, en- couraging men to be their au- thentic selves, or “one hundred.” Get it?
And as the co-founder and CEO of a men’s brand, Ewell
had to look the part. But with a limited budget, given his ca- reer change, Ewell had to be- come smarter about how he went about his “hunt” for clothing.
The Onehunted co-founder is making the experience ac- cessible through e-com- merce—with the recently launched app Huntrs by One- hunted.
Huntrs, a virtual consign- ment shop, allows users to buy and sell gently used clothing and accessories peer to peer.
Black Physics Student At NC State Finds Racist Trash Left On Car
RALEIGH, NC —- Elliot G. Holliday, a junior physics and mathematics major at N.C. State Univer- sity, found his car covered in trash after hanging out with friends on campus Sunday night.
He said he’s afraid he had been targeted because of his race.
Holliday posted photos of his trashed car on Facebook and wrote about how the van- dalism upset him. But upon closer inspection, the type of trash left on his car was even more upsetting.
A box of Popeye’s fried chicken, a bottle of chocolate milk, an afro pick (still in its packaging) and an open bag of Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal.
Holliday’s post had been shared nearly 200 times by Monday evening. It had
Photo posted to Facebook
nearly 450 reactions and about 70 comments.
Holliday said in a com- ment to his post that he re- ported the incident to campus police. He said that’s how he learned that the park- ing lot his car was in – near Wolf Village Apartments at N.C. State, did not have secu- rity cameras. He said he wouldn’t be ignored by the university.
Maj. David Kelly told The Huffington Post that Holliday did file a report with the university’s police department, but because there was no indication that a crime was committed, such as damaged property or as- sault, it’s just a “university in- formation report” for now. But the department still is in- vestigating, along with NCSU’s Bias Incident and
Party Supply Company Caters To Black And Hispanic Children
Silver Spring, MD — KIESSE LLC, founded by en- trepreneur Linda Kiedi, is a company dedicated to the pro- vision of unique party supplies to African American and His- panic kids.
The company, born out of an urgency to meet needs often overlooked by bigger compa- nies, has recently announced its new range of products and services. Birthed in September 2015, they do much more than provide party supplies; They believe in creating an atmos- phere of love, self-confidence and boosting general ethnicity acceptance irrespective of backgrounds.
Kiedi comments, “We’ve found an unmet need that people of color have. We are
Linda Kiedi is the founder of Kiesse, LLC.
offering party supplies for African American, Caucasian, Hispanic and Asian children featuring black and Hispanic characters.”
For more information about the company, visit www.kiessekids.com
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