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5th Grade Teacher Inspires Students With Personalized Handshakes, Dap And Dab
Teacher Barry White, Jr., inspires his students with greetings just for them daily.
Jury Convicts Minnesota Man Who Shot BLM Protesters
Allen Scarsella provoked protesters with racial slurs be- fore shooting 5 Black men.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN —- A Minnesota jury on last Wednesday convicted the man who shot five African-Ameri- can men during a Black Lives Matter protest after the 2015 fatal shooting of Jamar Clark, reports ABC News.
Allen Scarsella, 24, of Bloomington, was found guilty on all charges of assault and riot. Scarsella showed no emotion as the Hennepin
Blacks Still Hardest Hit By HIV/AIDs
CHARLOTTE, NC —- Barry White, Jr., a fifth grade Eng- lish teacher at Ashley Park PreK-8 School in Charlotte, North Carolina, has an elabo- rate, personalized handshake with every one of his students. Every. Single. One.
“They know when they get to the front door we do our ‘good mornings,’ and then it’s time to go,” White told ABC News of his enthusiastic greetings. “I’m always pumped up and then we start doing the moves and that brings them excitement and pumps them up for a high-en-
ergy class.” Each handshake is different,
using custom moves inspired by the student’s personality.
White said remembering all the different moves isn’t as tricky as you’d think.
An avid Cleveland Cavalier's fan, White was inspired to do the handshakes with his stu- dents after noticing his favorite basketball player, LeBron James, doing the same thing with his teammates.
His administration loves the enthusiasm White brings to his students each day.
ATLANTA, GA —- Although progress has been made, Black people in America are still being hit harder by HIV/AIDS, a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.
The CDC study found that of more than 12,200 Black men and women diagnosed with HIV in 2014, nearly 22 percent had progressed to AIDS by the time they were diagnosed. That means diag- nosis and treatment is often coming too late.
Of the Black Americans with HIV diagnosed in 2013, only about 54 percent were receiving continuous medical care. Of those getting care, less than half had effectively suppressed the virus. This is far below the National HIV/AIDS Strategy goals of 90 percent of HIV patients in treatment and 80 percent with undetectable HIV by 2020, the study authors noted.
According to the report, from 2010 to 2014, the an- nual HIV diagnosis rate de- creased for Blacks by 16 percent.
Yet, in 2015, Black people still accounted for 45 percent of new HIV diagnoses.
Among Black women, the
annual rate of HIV diagnosis was about 16 times greater than the rate among white women, the CDC reported.
The findings also indicated that many Black men may be infected with HIV for years without knowing it, Dailey said.
For people living with HIV, getting diagnosed and start- ing treatment early is an es- sential first step toward long-term health.
The report was published Friday in the CDC's Morbid- ity and Mortality Weekly Re- port.
For more information on HIV/AIDS, visit the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Defense attorneys left the Criticism After ‘Today’ Co-Anchor County jury’s verdict was read.
Tamron Hall’s Exit, NBC
courtroom without comment. Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said his of- fice will seek “the stiffest pos- sible sentence” for Scarsella. “We charged him with the most serious possible charge that the evidence allowed,” Freeman said in a statement. Only one of the five victims attended the verdict. Cameron Clark, 26, Jamar Clark’s cousin, was shot by Scarsella in the right leg. Clark said he remembers Scarsella provoking protest- ers with racial slurs and luring a group of Black men up the street where he turned and
shot at them. Clark attended parts of
Scarsella’s testimony...”I was kind of really thinking that (the jurors) were going to be on his side and they were going to let him go because he was claiming self-defense,” Clark said afterward.
To Meet With Black Journalists
NEW YORK —- NBC News has responded to criticism of the exit of “Today” co-anchor Tamron Hall by indicating that it would accept an offer by the National Association of Black Journalists to discuss the issue.
Meanwhile, Hall “took to so- cial media on Thursday to thank her fans and followers for their support — a day after it was announced that she will be leaving NBC News and MSNBC when her contract ex- pires this month.
In a statement Wednesday after NBC announced that Hall, the first Black woman to co-host “Today,” is leaving NBC and MSNBC, NABJ said in a statement, “NBC has been a leader for diversity in broad- casting, but recent reports that Hall and [Al] Roker will be replaced by former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly are being seen by industry profes-
Tamron Hall’s contract will not be renewed by NBC.
sionals as whitewashing. . . .” It asked for a meeting with NBC. The network sought to re-
place Hall and co-host Roker, also a black journalist, on the “Today” show’s third hour at 9 a.m. ET.
NBC plans to make room for Kelly, although it has not de- cided whether Kelly or 10 a.m. ET hosts Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb would take over the third “Today” hour.
Modern Day ‘Hidden Figure,’ 22, Is Rocket Structural Engineer For NASA
Tierra Guinn had a knack for math at a young age.
Tierra Guinn is a Rocket Structural Design and Analy- sis Engineer for aerospace company Boeing, who is working with NASA to create a space launch system.2
The space launch system, as posted on NASA’s website, is “an advanced launch vehicle for a new era of exploration beyond Earth’s orbit into deep space”. The SLS will be the planet’s most powerful rocket and Tierra plays a huge part in it’s creation, de- signing and analyzing parts of the rocket.
Tierra isn’t new to this! She’s had a passion for engi- neering her whole life.
She said, “One day I saw a plane fly by and I just had this realization, ‘huh, I can design planes. I’m going to be an aerospace engineer.” Accord- ing to Tierra, her passion for math came from her mom.
“When [my mom and I] would go to the grocery store, she would get me to clip coupons [and] put it in my coupon organizer. By the time we got to the register, I’d have to calculate the exact total, in- cluding tax. And I did that since I was six years old.”
Tierra is a student at Mas- sachusetts Institute of Tech- nology (MIT) that will be graduating with a 5.0.
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