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Boy Thrown From Mall Of America Balcony Still Hospitalized
Georgetown Students Vote For $27 Raise In Tuition For Slavery Reparations
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — A 5-year-old boy who was seriously injured when he was thrown from a third-floor balcony at the Mall of America near Minneapolis remains hos- pitalized.
Friends of the family have started a crowdfunding effort to help with medical bills. The GoFundMe campaign had raised nearly $400,000 as of Sunday morning.
Bloomington Police Chief Jeffrey Potts said Sunday that the boy is “still alive and receiving care,” and that the family wants privacy. Chil- dren’s Hospital Minneapolis had no information to release. Authorities haven’t released the boy’s name. They say he fell nearly 40 feet after a man threw him off the balcony Fri- day.
Twenty-four-year-old Em-
EMMANUEL ARANDA
manuel Deshawn Aranda,
of Minneapolis, is jailed on a suspicion of attempted homi- cide charge. Jail records don’t list an attorney for him. He could be formally charged as early as Monday.
Students at Georgetown University took a major step in reparations reform, after vot- ing in favor to raise tuition at the school by approximately $27 per semester.
On Thursday, nearly 66% of Georgetown students voted to raise tuition at the renowned university by $27.20 a semes- ter. The funds would go to- wards providing reparations for nearly 272 students and de- scendants of slaves once owned, and later sold, by the school.
The university took to their official elections’ Twitter page to tweet out the following:
According to the New York Times, as it currently stands,
GEORGETOWN CLASS
the university, which is deemed one of the wealthiest in the nation, has a median family income per student of $229,000, with 74% of them coming from the highest-earn-
ing 20% of American house- holds.
In 2016, Georgetown made the decision to provide admis- sions preference to descen- dants of the slaves sold by the school.
Shepard Thomas, a jun- ior at Georgetown, and also a descendent of said slaves, told the news publication:
“The school wouldn’t be here without them. Students here always talk about chang- ing the world after they gradu- ate. Why not change the world when you’re here? It makes me feel happy that we, as students, decided to set a precedent for the betterment of people’s lives.”
CJ Wallace's Cannabis Company
Students Say Gym Teacher Had Black Kids Research Slave Games
Names A Strain After His Father,
SHOREWOOD, Wis.— A Wisconsin middle school gym teacher has been placed on indefinite leave while dis- trict officials look into claims that she separated students in one class by race and as- signed the black children to research games that enslaved children played.
The Shorewood Interme- diate School teacher was in- structing seventh-graders about games from around the world on April 1 when she al- legedly gave the assignment to the black students, Shore- wood School District Super- intendent Bryan Davis said in a Thursday letter to par- ents. He didn’t name the
and asked to research games from their cultures.
“I went to my mom, I’m like, ‘mom, what are slave games?'” she said.
Her mother, Reshunda Stephens, told the station that the same teacher asked her older daughter to be part of “the colored club,” last year.
“How many more times do people have to feel uncom- fortable until change hap- pens?” she asked.
Davis said the district is “committed to providing an environment of inclusion in our schools.”
“We will continue to as- sess the situation and e
The Notorious B.I.G.
CJ Wallace, the only son of The Notorious B.I.G. and Faith Evans, is report- edly launching a very special strain with his cannabis com- pany, Think Big, in collabora- tion with Lowell Herb Co. Think Big aims to spread awareness of the benefits of herb as it relates to " creativ- ity, contemplation, and heal- ing."
The 22-year-old is paying homage to his late father with a strain named after his alter ego, Frank White. Biggie was inspired by Christo- pher Walken's character in the film, Kings Of New York. Per an interview withForbes, the strain is "signature sun- grown California cannabis, custom blended with Orange Sherbet, Banjo, and Rat- tlesnake Sour Diesel."
"Some of the strains made us more talkative or too sleepy, and with The Frank White Creative Blend, we wanted something that made you feel both relaxed and en- ergized—something that helps you be your most cre- ative," Wallace explained.
Elsewhere in the interview, Wallace says that he grew up around cannabis, but as he got older, he began to see the health benefits of herb, espe- cially as it pertained to a very close member of his family.
"My little brother, Ryder, has non-verbal autism and through research,
teacher.
“We take these allegations
extremely serious,” Davis wrote. “Throughout this situ- ation, student safety and well-being have been our top priority.”
One of the black students, MaHailey Stephens, told WITI-TV that she and her classmates were separated into groups based on race
CJ WALLACE
my family heard about Jay- den’s Juice and other CBD products for kids with epilepsy and autism," he ex- plained. "Watching him calm down and be less frustrated when trying to express him- self was the big sign of cannabis being used for med- icine, and that solidified my belief in the powers of the cannabis and hemp plants."
As for what other strains his company has in the works– Wallace notes that he has "so many different people" in his head to name strains after, including Diddy and JAY-Z.
"But you know, we want to make sure it's done right," he continues. "So, you know, we've got some great ideas coming."
Medical Association Blasts Military’s Transgender Policy
SAN DIEGO — A Trump administration regulation set to go into effect Friday bars transgender people from the military unless they “correct those deficiencies,” a descrip- tion the American Medical Association said Thursday is unfair and defies science.
The AMA told The Associ- ated Press on Thursday the policy and its wording mis- characterizes transgender people as having a "defi- ciency." It said it also objects to the Defense Department classifying the need to transi- tion to another gender among "administratively disqualify- ing conditions" that include those the Pentagon has la- beled as "congenital or devel-
In this Feb. 27, 2019, file photo, Army Staff Sgt. Patricia King, sec- ond from right, together with other transgender military members, from left, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Blake Dremann, Army Capt. Alivia Stehlik, Army Capt. Jennifer Peace and Navy Petty Officer Third Class Akira Wyatt, testify about their military service before a House Armed Serv- ices Subcommittee on Military Personnel hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.
opmental defects."
The new regulation strips
transgender troops of rights they only recently secured under the Obama adminis- tration to serve openly and
receive care if they choose to transition to another gender. The department says transgender people can serve if they remain in their biolog-
ical sex.
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