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Army Officer Is 2016 ‘Miss USA’
Report: Black Women Are The ‘Most Educated’ Group In The United States
It’s official. Black women are now the most educated group in the United States
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, there is a higher percentage of Black women enrolled in college — 9.7 percent, to be exact — than any other race or gender group.
Asian women trail slightly be- hind with a whopping 8.7 per- cent and White women with 7.1 percent.
Between 2009 and 2010, Black women earned 68 percent of the associate’s degrees, 66 percent of the bachelor’s de- grees, 71 percent of the master’s degrees, and 65 percent of the doctorate degrees received by Black graduates in the United States.
Bank Of America Fires Employee That Went On Racist Facebook Rant
Bank of America
The same way Bank Of Amer- ica won’t hesitate to hit you with an overdraft fee, they are quick to fire full frontal racists.
A 57-year-old Atlanta woman named Christine McMullen Lindgren was relieved of her services after customers and other people complained about her very public Facebook rant.
The rant did not go unnoticed and people immediately let their feelings be known by contacting Bank of America, the place she had listed as her employer...
BOA responded and fired Mc- Mullen Thursday afternoon. Per AJC: Andy Aldridge, a senior vice president and com- munications manager for the bank, confirmed that Lindgren had worked at the bank and that the comments were “reprehen- sible and unacceptable.
Queens Man Unaware Of $2 Bail Sits In Rikers For Months
Deshauna Barber, a 26- year-old Army officer from the District of Columbia, won the Miss USA crown on Sunday night.
During the annual beauty pageant, which was held at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Barber beat out 51 other women for the title. She will go on to compete in the Miss Uni- verse contest later this year.
Barber works as an IT ana- lyst for the U.S. Department of Commerce and is a logistics commander for the 988th Quartermaster Detachment Unit at Fort Meade, Maryland, according to her Miss USA pro- file.
“As a woman in the United States Army, I think ... we are just as tough as men. As a com- mander of my unit, I’m power- ful, I am dedicated,” Barber
Deshauna Barber was crowned Miss USA on Sunday.
said when asked about women in combat. “Gender does not limit us in the United States Army.”
NEW YORK -- Aitabdel Salem could’ve posted bail with the loose change in his pockets had he known it was simply $2, instead the 41-year- old sat in a Riker’s cell for nearly five months.
According to reports, Salem was acquitted of bail jumping at a Manhattan Court last week after he’d been originally jailed for attacking a NYPD of- ficer who was arresting him for stealing a coat from a Manhat- tan Zara, Nov. 21, 2014. His bail was set at $25,000.
Prosecutors could not get an indictment and Salem was or- dered to be released Novem- ber 28, 2014. However, he still had dollar bails on each of his two minor offenses, which in- cluded tampering and mis- chief charges, so he couldn’t walk out of prison a free man
AITABDEL SALEM
until he paid his debt.
Salem was left with the
cheap bail holding him hostage in prison, but wasn’t made aware until later...months later.
New President Of Universal Television Joins Sistergirl At ABC
Report: Inmate That Died
Pearlena Igbokwe, is now the president of Universal Tel- evision.
On Friday, the president of NBC Entertainment made the announcement.
Igbokwe came to NBC En- tertainment four years ago as executive vice president of drama development. Before that, Igbokwe spent 20 years at Showtime Networks, begin- ning with television movies and then moving into drama devel- opment, where she worked on classics such as Dexter and Nurse Jackie. Igbokwe is a graduate of Yale and Columbia Business School.
Another black woman, Channing Dungey, became the first African-American TV network president when she was named to the top post at
From Police Dog Bite Was
Punished By Jail Personnel
Body Of Abducted Teen Found In Field
DETROIT, MI -- The family of 13-year-old Deontae Mitchell has positively identi- fied his body after it was found Thursday morning in a field on the east side of Detroit.
Deontae was reported miss- ing after he was abducted by a man Tuesday night. He disap- peared Tuesday night while riding bikes with a cousin, who told police that Deontae had picked up money dropped by a man who was urinating outside a market.
Video shows Deontae being pursued by a man who grabbed the boy by his arm and forced him into a car.
Authorities quickly identified Gregory Walker as a subject, releasing images of Walker and later releasing the video of the actual kidnapping.
Walker was arrested Thurs-
Deontae Mitchell was ab- ducted by 3 men.
day in Toledo, Ohio, in connec- tion with the abduction. Also arrested was 51-year-old Roy Portis. A third suspect is still being sought.
Pearlena Igbokwe is the sec- ond Black female named pres- ident of a major network. Igbokwe will run Universal Television, She joins Chan- ning Dungey, the first African American president of ABC.
ABC in February.
An Orlando police dog bit Max Gracia during an Au- gust 6, 2015 arrest in which police said he committed an armed robbery then tried to run away. The dog sunk its teeth into him for three min- utes before he got away and jumped into a lake with open wounds, according to arrest records obtained by the TV station.
His autopsy showed the bites caused an E. coli infection and then a more widespread infec- tion called septic shock, which leads to organ failure and dan- gerously low blood pressure. But medical staff at the Orange County jail infirmary had dis- charged him without giving him a formal evaluation ac- cording to WESH.
Gracia alerted a jail officer the night of Aug. 9 that he couldn’t get out of bed to take medicine, the jail incident re- ports show. A nurse told the officer Gracia was feigning illness in an “implicit refusal for medication.”
The officer ordered Gracia to move to a different cell with a camera in it so jail officials could “better ascertain the va- lidity of his proclaimed ill- nesses.” A supervisor later cited him for punishment be- cause she said he was lying on the ground and “groaning in a lethargic manner” instead of moving to the new cell.
The supervisor, Cpl. Gwenetta Garrett, said she and several officers com- manded him to get up but “he continued to moan and appear
Max Gracia died of septic shock after being bitten by po- lice dog.
unresponsive to the com- mands.” Jail officers found Gracia unconscious in his cell the following day, and he died at a hospital.
Gracia’s death has not yet resulted in any litigation or charges. Internal investigators found nurses at the jail failed to uphold medical-care stan- dards in their treatment of Gracia, according to the Sen- tinel. The nurse who accused him of faking his illness re- signed, and two others re- ceived reprimands.
County officials told the newspaper Gracia’s death has prompted changes, includ- ing more training for medical personnel on identification and care for sepsis.
“After Gracia’s death, a thorough medical review of his care was conducted by the Or- ange County Health Services Department.
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