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Black Construction Company Awarded $27 Million Contract With FAA
College President Apologizes After Hosting Dinner Using Cotton-Stalk Centerpieces
NASHVILLE, TN — A din- ner intended to give African- American students at a Tennessee university the op- portunity to discuss their ex- perience at the predominantly white, private liberal arts school left atten- dees shocked after tables were decorated with cotton stalk centerpieces.
Lipscomb University pres- ident Randy Lowry invited Black students to his Nashville home for a dinner, but many of the students deemed the tableware and menu offensive. The menu in- cluded collard greens and
Randy Lowry issued an apology after he had racially offensive centerpieces at a din- ner he hosted at his home for Black students at the univer- sity where he is president.
macaroni and cheese. The night before the president served the Latino students tacos.
According to several stu- dents, vases with stalks of cot- ton were placed on the tables. One student said in a post on Instagram that the center- pieces were added for the din- ner with African-American students and were not pres- ent for a dinner held for Latino students the day be- fore.
The school’s president is- sued an apology to the college community after the Insta- gram post went viral.
Nancy Espie-Underwood’s hard work has paid off.
CALIFORNIA — Nancy Espie-Underwood is at the top of her game as an owner of a construction com- pany. She is the first Black woman in the state of Cali- fornia to receive a General Engineering Contractors Class A license in 1992.
And her work with the Small Business Administra- tion in the 1990s has led to her securing a $27 million contract with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
That substantial contract put her company in prime
position to be in charge of re- moving contaminated diesel tanks and installing above- ground storage tanks and in- tegrated monitoring systems at runway checker boxes.
Underwood General Engi- neering & Environmental Consultant Services also did this installation on the run- ways of every airport gov- erned by the FAA in California, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii and Amer- ican Samoa. She went on to win contracts with the U.S. Department of State that took her company global.
Bill Gates Millennium Scholarship Has Reached 20,000 Recipients Goal
Bill Gates, founder of Mi- crosoft, has given away bil- lions of dollars in scholarship money. But if you haven’t no- ticed already, since 2016, the Gates Millennium Scholars Program for minority stu- dents has been discontinued.
For years, the program awarded scholarships to African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian Pacific Islander American and Hispanic American stu- dents who were enrolled in a 2 or 4 year college program.
However, when the pro- gram reached its goal to fund 20,000 students, they dis- continued accepting new ap- plicants.
The good news
The goods, though, is that
Bill Gates ...Microsoft founder
Microsoft still has two pro- grams that are specifically available for Black and other minority students.
#1 – Blacks at Microsoft (BAM) African American
Heritage Scholarships are of- fered to outstanding black high-school seniors who are interested in pursuing ca- reers in technology.
#2 – Microsoft Diversity Conference and Minority STEM Scholarships help Black, Hispanic and female students who are pursuing degrees in computer science, engineering, and other tech- nical areas of study. There are two scholarship pro- grams – one for tuition and for paid registration to a di- versity tech conference.
There are also more than 200 other scholarships for minorities from other major companies and organizations listed on www.scholarship- sonline.org
Hotel Employee Demonstrates
There Was No Way Young Woman
Locked Herself Inside Freezer
CHICAGO, IL —- The mys- tery surrounding the death of 19-year-old Kenneka Jenk- ins continues to playout on- line.
A video posted to YouTube purports to show hotel em- ployees demonstrating that there’s no way Jenkins could have locked herself in the freezer of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in the Village of Rose- mont, Illinois.
Jenkins went missing after a night of partying with friends in the suburban Chicago hotel. She was found dead in a walk- in storage freezer in the same hotel.
Chief Donald E. Stephens said the investiga- tion into the death of 19-year- old Kenneka Jenkins will remain in the hands of the Rosemont Public Safety De- partment.
“This investigation has been and remains the utmost prior- ity for us. Throughout this in- vestigation we have used any and all outside agencies neces- sary to complete a thorough investigation and will continue to do so as needed,” he said in the statement.
He went on to say that the department has resources available on the local, county,
Kenneka Jenkins attended a party to celebrate her new job, and ended up dead inside the hotel freezer in the basement.
state and federal level.
Police in Rosemont re-
leased all surveillance video re- ceived from the hotel on last Friday.
In the videos, Jenkins ap- pears to be stumbling in the hotel kitchen, hallways and out of an elevator.
WGN has posted the videos in which she appears, but po- lice did provide other video from the hotel where she does not appear.
WGN did not receive any video where Jenkins walks into a freezer.
An attorney representing Jenkins’ family released a statement saying they have not received any video from police of her entering the hotel freezer.
Shame On The Parents: Kids Attempt To Stop Fight Between Couples At Walmart
UNION, NJ — A fight be- tween two couples inside a New Jersey Walmart was so chaotic that young children were left screaming and try- ing to separate the dueling adults.
Cell phone footage posted to the video-sharing site Live Leak shows two men throw- ing punches at each other near the store's jewelry sec- tion as two women fight.
In the background, shop- pers can be heard yelling for the couples to stop.
During the melee two young children run up to the group and try to break them apart. The kids can be heard screaming as Walmart em- ployees and a female on- looker try to calm things down.
Showdown in Walmart led the children to try and come be- tween the fighting adults.
A Walmart spokesman told NJ.com that the fight happened Saturday at the
Union store on Springfield Road. It's not clear what sparked the brawl.
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