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#MeToo Movement Founder To Drop The Ball On New Year’s Eve
Prince Harry And Soon To Be Princess Meghan Celebrate Engagement With Official Photos
The founder of the #MeToo movement that has empo- wered people who have expe- rienced sexual harassment to speak out will usher in the countdown to 2018 from Times Square on New Year's Eve.
Activist Tarana Burke, who coined "Me Too" more than a decade ago, created the campaign to embolden young women, "particularly young women of color from low wealth communities," who have been sexually abused, assaulted, exploited or ha- rassed.
The movement garnered much attention in the latter part of 2017 as people began speaking out against enter- tainment-industry heavy-
Kensington Palace has re- leased two romantic images of Prince Harry and his bride-to- be Meghan Markle to mark their engagement.
The pictures were taken by fashion and celebrity photogra- pher Alexi Lubomirski last week at Frogmore House, Wind- sor.
One is an intimate black and white portrait showing the cou- ple embracing. The other snap is a more formal picture of the cou- ple sitting together holding hands.
The wedding is scheduled to take place on 19 May 2018 at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Cas- tle in England.
Tarana Burke, #MeToo founder created the term more than 10 years ago, will drop the ball.
weights like Harvey Wein- stein and Kevin Spacey and politicians including Roy Moore and Al Franken.
Harvard Introduces Gullah Language Class Taught By A Charleston-Born Artist
College Classmates Find Out They Are Biological Brothers
Kieron Graham and Vincent Ghant appeared on GMA on last Thursday.
The native Lowcountry lan- guage is now one of 45 taught at the African Language Pro- gram.
A renewed interest in Gullah has propelled the language to one of the highest rungs in ac- ademia.
Charleston native and per- formance artist Sunn m'Cheaux spent the fall se- mester at Harvard teaching an introductory version of a course on Gullah: A language indigenous to the Lowcountry region often described as a combination of English and Central and West African lan- guages.
The pidgin language origi- nally allowed enslaved African people from various tribes to
Charleston native Sunn m'Cheaux is the latest addition to the roster of instructors at Harvard's African Language Program. He began teaching Gullah at the university in 2017.
communicate with each other and with their overseers, and is still spoken by African-Ameri- can communities across coastal regions of South Car- olina, Georgia, and Florida.
The Gullah class is the first of its kind at the Ivy League school. It's part of the African Language Program within the Department of African and African American Studies.
Kieron Graham, 20, and Vincent Ghant, 29, are bio- logical brothers who had never met each other until last week.
The two also discovered that they’re both juniors at Kenne- saw State University in Geor- gia, they’re both majoring in political science and minoring in legal studies, and the two even once shared a class to- gether.
“We were like, ‘Wow, we’re the same person,'” Kieron told “Good Morning America” Thursday, recalling his first face to face conversation with Vincent.
Their mother, Shawn Ghant, was going through a rough patch when Kieron was born. Vincent was 9 when she made the painful decision to put Kieron up for adoption at 3 months old.
Though Vincent had vague memories of diapering his younger brother, his mother was hesitant to discuss it.
“I asked my mother about him throughout my life, but the pain was so heavy on her that it was hard for her to drum up
the words to explain it to me.” Meanwhile, across town, Kieron had always known the first names of his biological mother, father and older brother Vincent. But he was- n’t able to connect the dots fully until a few weeks ago, when his adoptive parents gave him an ancestry DNA kit so he could
find out more about his roots. “One day after school, I came home checked my email. I had an email the results were in,” Kieron told “Inside Edition.” “I went through the names of people I was related to. I saw Vincent. I said, ‘I think that’s
my birth brother.’”
Graham looked up Vin-
cent on Facebook and told him about the DNA results. “[I said] this is so random, I think I’m your birth brother,” Kierson said.
The two texted back and forth, and when Kieron men- tioned the name of his birth mother, Vincent knew he was communicating with his bio- logical brother at last. The brothers met and are now get- ting to know each other.
The Memphis City Council voted to sell two public parks containing Confederate monu- ments in a move that cleared the way for the statues to be torn down. The state had de- nied the council's bid to re- move the statues earlier this month.
The city unanimously voted to sell the Health Sciences Park and Memphis Park to a private entity, Memphis Greenspace
The statue of Confederate Men. Nathan Bedford Forrest, an early member of the KKK was taken away on last Wednesday.
Inc., which immediately took down the controversial monu- ments.
Health Sciences Park con- tained a statue of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford For- rest, an early member of the Ku Klux Klan. Memphis Park had a statue of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Memphis Sells Parks, So Confederate Statutes Come Down
Virginia Pastor And Wife Found Guilty Of $2 Million Scam
ALEXANDRIA, VA —- An Alexandria pastor and his wife were convicted on last Monday for roles in a $2 million fraud scheme.
Terry Wayne Millender,
53, former senior pastor of Vic- torious Life Church in Alexan- dria, and his wife, Brenda Millender, 57, were founding members of Micro-Enterprise Management Group, a Virginia company that said it was help- ing poor people in developing countries through providing small, short-term loans to start or expand existing businesses according to court records. Terry Millender served as Micro-Enterprise Manage- ment’s CEO.
The Millenders recruited investors to their company promising guaranteed rates of return and assuring its in-
Pastor Terry Wayne and Brenda Millender face up to 20 years in prison.
vestors that the loan principal would be “safe and backed by the assets of MEMG.”
The jury found the Millen- ders’ representation of the company to be false and fraud- ulent. Instead of their alleged mission, the couple was using the money to take part in risky trading on the foreign ex- change currency market, op- tions trading, payments to the purchase of a $1.75 million res-
idence and other personal ex- penses.
The Millenders concealed how they were using their in- vestors’ money by telling those who had given money that they would get their investment back and blamed delays in re- paying investors, in part, on the 2008 financial crisis.
Following the failure of MEMG, the Millenders cre- ated another company called Kingdom Commodities Unlim- ited, which alleged to broker Nigerian oil deals.
The Millenders, in turn, used KCU money to pay for rent and golf trips, a birthday party and other personal ex- penses.
The couple faces a maxi- mum penalty of 20 years in prison when they’re sentenced on March 30.
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