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Former Sam’s Club CEO Set Up Monies For Entrepreneurs That Is Still There
Tween Scalded At Sleepover Is Recovering Well
BRONX, NY - Ja- moneisha ‘Jamoni’ Mer- ritt, the 11-year-old Bronx girl who suffered burns on her face and arms when a friend poured boiling water on her, left the hospital look- ing almost good as new.
Her road to recovery is not yet finished, however. She will likely miss the start of 7th grade and will have to be homeschooled.
Jamoni was spending the night at a friend’s house on August 7 when the friend poured the hot water on her in a prank that went awry.
The prank was similar to the “Hot Water Challenge,” which is a YouTube inspired trend where kids pour boil- ing water on unsuspecting
Jamoni Merritt's face was burned by hot water in a prank gone wrong at a sleepover.
people.
Jamoni was hard to rec-
ognize after having burns to
85% of her face.
The friend, Aniya Grant
Stuart, 12, has been taken into custody over the inci- dent and the case is in the hands of Family Court due to the fact that she is a minor.
Stuart is said to have tried to commit suicide after the incident.
Jamoni says that she was warned by Aniya and two other girls that she would be pranked if she fell asleep.
She was awoken to the feeling of her face on fire.
Aniya’s mother gave her ice and a cold shower and the girls gave a half-hearted apology and stated it was an accident, according to Ja- moni.
Rosalind Brewer left Sam’s Club in February 2017.
BENTONVILLE, AR—- Rosalind G. Brewer was the first woman and the first African-American to become CEO of Sam's Club, and dur- ing her tenure with the com- pany, she established several programs for women entre- preneurs.
In 2015, Rosalind launched a 5-year program and pledged to give another $8.8 million in grants to women-owned businesss. Al- though she is not CEO any more, what Rosalind estab- lished for women entrepre- neurs is still in place... and
the grants are still available! The company is still on a mission to reach one million small business owners with training and borrower educa- tion, enable 5,000 micro and small business owners with the tools they need to obtain a smart loan, unlock $100 million in new capital and ul- timately support 28,000 small business jobs across the
U. S. by the end of 2019.
For more details about what Walmart is doing, visit
www.walmart.com/cp/wome n-owned-busi- nesses/1102793.
Chicago Bishop Wants Names Changed Of Parks In Black Community
CHICAGO, IL —- The pas- tor of a prominent Chicago church is calling on Mayor Rahm Emanuel to remove the name of President George Washington from the name of a park in a black neighborhood.
Bishop James Dukes,
pastor of the Liberation Christian Center, says it’s no longer appropriate for statues of American presidents who owned slaves to be commem- orated in African-American neighborhoods.
Dukes is calling on Emanuel to remove such names from parks on the South Side.
Bishop wants parks named after American presidents who owned slaves taken off the parks in Black community.
A bronze statue of George Washington on horseback stands at the northwest en- trance to Washington Park. The pastor also said Presi-
dent Andrew Jackson’s
name should be removed from nearby Jackson Park.
The pastor said Chicago does not necessarily need to rename the parks completely, but he suggested Washington Park could be named after former Mayor Harold Washington, and Jackson Park could be named after civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson or singer Michael Jackson.
Communities around the U. S. have removed Confed- erate monuments under pressure from those who say they honor a regime that en- slaved African-Americans.
First Woman Named Police Chief Of Dallas, Texas
DALLAS, TX —-Ulysha Renee Hall will make history in Dallas in September, when she becomes the city’s first ever female police chief in the city’s entire 176 year history. She is a 19-year-veteran in law enforcement, and her former position was deputy police chief in Detroit – where she was also born and raised.
Law enforcement runs in the family for Hall. Her fa- ther, Ulysses Brown, was also a police officer, but was sadly killed in the line of duty in 1971 when she was just 6 months old. He was working in a specialized police force cracking down on prostitution
Ulysha Renee Hall will take office in September.
when he was killed, and the killer was reportedly never brought to justice.
Megachurch Pastor Steps Down From Trump’s Advisory Council
BROOKLYN, NY —-Most of President Trump’s evangelical advisers have stood by him this week fol- lowing much criticism over his response to violent clashes in Charlottesville, even as several CEOs left business advisory councils and members of his Commit- tee on the Arts and Humani- ties have announced they are leaving the panel.
In a first for his evangeli- cal advisory council, New York City megachurch pastor A. R. Bernard announced Friday that he had stepped down from the unofficial board of evangelical advisers to Trump.
Bernard sat at the presi- dent’s table on May 3, the night before the National Day
Megachurch pastor A. R. Bernard submitted his resig- nation on last Tuesday.
of Prayer when Trump gath- ered several religious leaders to announce an executive order on religious freedom.
Bernard’s Brooklyn- based Christian Cultural Cen-
ter, which claims 37,000 in membership, has been de- scribed by the New York Times as the largest evangel- ical church in New York City.
He said he submitted a formal letter on Tuesday, the same day Trump made con- troversial remarks about the events that took place in Charlottesville.
Bernard has been part of a group of a few dozen lead- ers who have given advice through the White House’s li- aison office. Other leaders who have been involved have been mostly a mix of Pente- costal and Southern Baptist pastors, including Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Dal- las and Paula White of New Destiny Christian Center in Florida.
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