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Training will occur at all Starbucks company-owned stores and will apply to nearly 175,000 U.S. partners (employees) Curriculum to be designed by nationally recognized experts and will be available for other companies to use (Black PR Wire) PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Starbucks Coffee Company (NASDAQ: SBUX) today announced it will be closing its more than 8,000 company-owned stores in the United States on the afternoon of May 29 to conduct racial-bias education geared toward preventing...
The Detroit Branch of the NAACP is honored to announce that U. S. Senator Cory Booker will be the keynote speaker at this year's Fight for Freedom Dinner. Booker is the first African American Senator from the state of New Jersey. He is also the first African American to be elected to the U.S. Senate since the election of Barack Obama. U. S. Senator Cory Booker has stood firmly for the principles within his own party and has been unafraid to reach across the aisle to build bridges as opposed to...
Fire Departments in the cities of Ecorse, Romulus and Wayne can provide better emergency care and service to residents, thanks to grants from Beaumont Hospitals in Wayne and Dearborn. With funds from Beaumont, the Wayne hospital recently purchased three heart monitor-defibrillators for the Wayne community and two more for Romulus. This new equipment will replace outdated units the cities would not have been able to afford due to budget limitations. In addition, Beaumont Hospital, Dearborn purcha...
There is strength in numbers. The Inkster Chamber of Commerce knows this first hand. "You're far better off doing a little bit as a group than you are off by yourself," said Martha Theis, chamber president and owner of Gabbert's Concrete Industries. Representatives from multiple businesses in the city converged, mingled and networked at this year's edition of the chamber's annual mixer, held at the Dozier Recreation Complex on March 28. Even though it was for the city, attendance was not...
It is ironic that the two branches of the system that have the power to ensnare the innocent - police agencies and the judicial system - are also some of the most secretive, imperious, and hostile to outside scrutiny. Sadly, they are also unlikely to receive indictment and punishment if they abuse their authority. I got a glimpse into this terrible phenomenon when I interviewed Walter Swift in 2008. Swift was wrongfully convicted in November of 1984 for the rape and robbery of a woman in...
On April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his prophetic but inspirational "I've Been to the Mountaintop," speech at the historic Masonic Temple in Memphis, Tennessee. One day later, the famous civil rights champion was assassinated. While gunman James Earl Ray's bullet silenced the legendary leader, his legacy continues to live on through contemporaries like Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. and organizations like the NAACP. Younger organizations, like Color of Change have picked up the...
University of Michigan-Dearborn (UMD) student, Alexann Zahara, spent time in Florida during spring break, like many college students do. Zahara was there for a respite from the hectic demand of classes and to visit with her mother, who resides in Florida. While there, Zahara and her mother took a short 20-minute drive to Parkland where, just two weeks earlier, 17 people were murdered and another 17 were wounded in a bloody mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Former student...
BATON ROUGE-Following a 10-month investigation into the extrajudicial killing of Alton Sterling, Louisiana's Attorney General Jeff Landry announced, during a press conference, that his office would not pursue criminal charges against the officers involved. Sterling, a 37-year-old Black man, was shot six times by a White Baton Rouge police officer on July 5, 2016, in front of a Triple S convenience store. The officers, Howie Lake II and Blane Salamoni were responding to a call about a man with a...
In honor of Women's History Month, noted researcher and photographer features shots of four prominent African-American heroines, including Gloria House, Michelle Obama, Coretta Scott King and Winnie Mandela. Rich, a noted photographer and researcher, photographed all four women over several years. Gloria House may not be as well known as the other three women, but she is no less important in terms of her contribution to civil rights. In fact, she nearly lost her life fighting for the cause. Dr....
Courts are required to meet two types of jurisdiction when filing a case; jurisdiction over the subject matter involved in the case, and jurisdiction over the defendant. Some 22 years ago, Carnell Alexander was named as the father of a child by a woman who applied for social services. The woman unsure of who the real dad was and desperate to receive financial assistance for herself and her child, named Alexander, a former friend, as the dad. In the early 1990's a process server was dispatched to...
