This City In Illinois Has Elected Its First Black Mayor

Allison Madison made history twice over on April 4 when she was elected as the first black and the first female mayor of Mound City, Illinois.

The mayor-elect was initially uncertain about whether the political bid would work out, according to local outlet KFVS.

“I just thought, ‘ OK, I’ll just try this to see what can I do,’” she told KFVS. “To see if I can make a difference in the town.”

While in office, Madison intends to beautify the community, bring in new businesses and focus on youth development

Not only is Madison thankful for her supporters, she wants them to know that she believes in them, too. 

“You can do this,” she said. “Nothing can stop you but you ― you can do this, you can be who you want to be.”

Madison will officially take office in a matter of weeks.

Another Illinois town also elected its first black mayor last week. Richard Irvin, mayor-elect of Aurora, will be sworn into office on May 9. 

Watch Madison’s interview with KFVS below. 

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Chinese Actor Donnie Yen Boycotts United After Son Asks 'Baba, What Happened?'

Actor and martial arts star Donnie Yen is done with United Airlines.

The Chinese action star took to social media to share his reaction after his 9-year-old son asked about the incident surrounding passenger David Dao, who was violently dragged off the airline’s plane. 

Asking social media users how the “Rogue One” actor should explain the airline’s “proudly assaulting a 69-year-old man” to the boy, Yen made it clear that the airline would no longer receive his business. 

“My nine-year-old son saw this news on TV and was horrified, ‘Baba, what happened?’” Yen wrote in the post before noting that Dao was “discriminated” against. “No one should be treated this way. … United was never my choice of airline, now they are black listed.”

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Yen is one of countless Asians who have expressed their outrage towards the airline after the graphic footage went viral. Dao’s legal team has said that they do not believe race was a factor in his removal from the plane. Regardless, many including Yen think that discrimination played a role in the matt. 

With fellow passengers previously quoted as saying Dao is either Chinese and Vietnamese, social media lit up with messages from Asians on various foreign social media platforms condemning the airline’s actions and encouraging others to stand up to racism. And several, like Yen, vowed they’d boycott the airline in the future, even cutting up their United membership cards. 

Demetrio said Thursday that as a result of the incident, Dao suffered a broken nose, lost two front teeth and received a concussion. A lawsuit from the passenger is “likely.” 

 

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Netflix Just Dropped The Amazing Official Trailer For 'Dear White People'

Netflix released the first full trailer for its upcoming show “Dear White People” on Thursday, and it begins with a cheeky disclaimer.

“Trigger warning: the following program is meant for both white and black audiences,” a voiceover says. “And every other color imaginable.”

Adapted from director Justin Simien’s 2014 film of the same name, the show follows several black students navigating racial tension at a predominantly white Ivy League university. 

The show faced backlash in February after the release of a 30-second teaser trailer that prompted a Twitter campaign to “#BoycottNetflix” for apparently creating “anti-white” content

But a look at the new two-minute trailer, above, shows that “Dear White People” will tackle a whole host of complex issues, from interracial relationships, to being black and queer, to the pitfalls of assimilation. 

The 10-episode series will premiere on April 28. 

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Kelly Rowland Says Any Destiny's Child Reunion Would Be A Surprise

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When you remind Kelly Rowland that this year marks two decades since the start of Destiny’s Child, she can hardly fathom it.

“It’s mind-blowing to me. I can’t believe that … It’s been an awesome 20 years,” the singer told The Huffington Post during a Build Series interview Tuesday. “I really can’t complain. And to still be able to be here talking in front of you, having you all here, and people wanting to be engaged with me? That’s a blessing.”

Destiny’s Child formed in 1997 and released their self-titled debut album a year later. Their sophomore effort, 1999’s “The Writing’s on the Wall,” catapulted the group to fame with hits like “Say My Name” and “Bills, Bills, Bills.” More albums, along with tours and awards followed until the gals disbanded in the mid-2000s to pursue solo careers.

But they’ve blessed us with some reunions through the years. Destiny’s Child teamed up for the Super Bowl in 2013, with Rowland and Michelle Williams joining Beyoncé’s halftime show. And just last fall the trio got together and did the Mannequin Challenge at Rowland’s 2-year-old son’s birthday party.

When asked if the ladies have anything planned for the 20-year anniversary, Rowland said they haven’t talked about it, at least not yet. After all, they are all busy doing some pretty great things.

“One is going to have some babies,” Rowland said, referring to Beyoncé, who’s pregnant with twins. “And I’m going to put out a record, and Michelle is working on some secret stuff right now, so I’ll be just be quiet on that. There’s some beautiful things happening with us individually. So, we haven’t talked about it but when we do, we would definitely want to surprise people, which we’ve all said before. But nothing’s cooking.”

Still, that doesn’t mean the ladies aren’t in touch. Rowland, who just published the book Whoa, Baby!: A Guide for New Moms Who Feel Overwhelmed and Freaked Out (and Wonder What the #*$& Just Happened), says she often talks to longtime friends like Bey about kids and being a parent. 

“Me and all my friends talk about motherhood. It’s just so interesting growing up with people and you see how everybody is evolving ― having kids and getting married, doing all these things with their business,” she said. “And I’m just so proud of all of us. And it’s awesome to watch. It’s a blessing, too. You realize how beautiful friendships are.”

In addition to putting out her book, Rowland has been extremely busy in the studio working on her first new solo album since 2013’s “Talk a Good Game.” Rowland says her fans have been waiting patiently, but now they’re eager for new material ― as is she. 

“All of my fans have been so supportive but now they’re like, ‘We’ve hit a ceiling,’” she said.

There’s no timeline for the album, but as soon as it’s done, Rowland plans to release it. And it’s safe to say she’s proud of how it’s turning out so far. 

“I have the guts to really put out the record. I’m unapologetic with this record. It’s everything that I want it to be,” said Rowland, who noted that the songs are R&B and soul-inspired. “It feels like life. It feels like a score.”

“For me it’s been the most bold I’ve ever been,” she added. “And I want it to be a good example for my son.”

To see the full Build Series interview, check out the video below. 

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Up To 50,000 Cases Of Cholera Expected In Somalia By This Summer: WHO

GENEVA, April 13 (Reuters) – More than 25,000 people in famine-threatened Somalia have been struck by cholera or acute watery diarrhea and the deadly epidemic should double by this summer, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.

The United Nations is already racing to avoid a repeat of famine in the drought-hit Horn of African nation where more than 250,000 people died of starvation in 2011.

Cholera, which is endemic in Somalia, is an acute diarrhoeal disease that can kill within hours if left untreated. Malnourished children under five years are especially vulnerable.

Already 25,424 infected people have been identified since the start of the year, WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said by email, adding: “These numbers are projected to increase to 50,000 by summer.”

The case fatality rate for the disease, spread by contaminated food or water, is already 2.1 percent in Somalia, twice the emergency threshold, he said. At least 524 deaths have been recorded.

Cholera can be successfully treated with oral rehydration solution. Severe cases will need rapid treatment with intravenous fluids and antibiotics, according to the WHO.

Death rates among Somalis infected with cholera now reach 14.1 percent in Middle Juba and 5.1 percent in Bakool, U.N. spokesman Jens Laerke told a news briefing.

“We still have 2.9 million people in level 3 and 4, level 4 being the step just before we declare a famine,” Laerke said, referring to the U.N. classification. “So almost 3 million in those critical and crisis emergency levels.”

The center of cholera outbreak is Baidoa, David Akopyan, U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) deputy country director for Somalia, told the briefing by telephone from the capital Mogadishu.

Thirteen of Somalia’s 18 regions are affected, he said.

Some 500,000 Somalis have been internally displaced, many in search of water, as well as some 3 million pastoralists who have lost 70 percent of their livestock due to drought, he said.

Akopyan, asked about famine, replied: “We are not exactly there, the fear is that in two months if things are not scaled up we will get there … Hopefully famine will be prevented.”

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This GOP Lawmaker Was Just Booed For His Bizarre Planned Parenthood Proposal

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MOUNT OLIVE TOWNSHIP, N.J. ― Constituents are happy to give Rep. Leonard Lance (R-N.J.) some credit: He was one of the very few swing-district Republicans to come out of hiding and talk to voters after the GOP’s failed repeal of Obamacare.

But his ideas about women’s health care ― which he touted in front of hundreds at a town hall event Wednesday night ― provided little comfort and often led to cries of outrage or looks of bewilderment.

Lance had a hard time dodging one constituent’s question regarding whether he’d continue working to defund Planned Parenthood. Instead of a straight answer, the lawmaker offered his own plan: Break Planned Parenthood into two businesses. One would offer women’s health care that he likes, and the other would provide women’s health care that he doesn’t like.

What I have suggested to Planned Parenthood is that it have two separate organizations ― one organization that deals in the services regarding women’s health and another organization that performs the abortion procedure,” he said. “I would hope that Planned Parenthood might look at that.”

To say he was met with boos would understate the cacophony of cries that came from his audience (video above).

But Lance was prepared to go further down the rabbit hole by echoing a bizarre and repeatedly disproven theory circulating among some Republican lawmakers: That other medical facilities could easily pick up the slack if Planned Parenthood suddenly ceased to exist.

Last year, Florida legislators were raked over the coals after they offered a list of medical offices that women could turn to for reproductive services. The list included dozens of schools, dentistry offices and even an optometry center. Lance mentioned a similar list of facilities in his district during a town hall in February; several attendees told The Huffington Post that two of the six facilities on his list were dentistry offices.

On Wednesday night, he doubled down. Again.

In the district that I serve, there’s a Planned Parenthood facility, and there are several federally qualified health care facilities,” he said. “Some deal with a whole panoply of service, and some are dental facilities but —”

He was interrupted.

“If I’m pregnant, I don’t need a dental plan,” a constituent said, garnering cheers.

Christine Sadovy, advocacy director of Planned Parenthood in New Jersey, told HuffPost that she was disheartened to hear Lance separate women’s health care from abortion services. She and other attendees noted, however, that some of the congressman’s stances on health care coverage were a step in the right direction. He did, after all, oppose the final version of the GOP plan to replace Obamacare, saying that it would raise costs and reduce coverage for his voter base.

“Nobody in our society should ever be denied health care coverage based upon a pre-existing condition,” Lance said to reporters after the town hall.

Lance and Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) were two swing-district Republicans who actually hosted town halls on Wednesday ― a dozen others have been criticized for avoiding the public. Lance and Lamborn both fielded questions about health care, Syria, President Donald Trump’s elusive tax returns and the environment, and both got quite the verbal beating from their audiences. 

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New York Mourns The Death Of Trailblazing Black Muslim Judge

Justice Sheila Abdus-Salaam, the first African-American woman and Muslim to serve on the highest court in New York, was found dead on Wednesday afternoon.

Abdus-Salaam’s husband had reported her missing earlier in the day, according to CBS New York. Police said her body, which they found on the shore of the Hudson River near Harlem, had no obvious signs of trauma and officials believe her death was not criminal in nature. The medical examiner has not yet determined the cause of death.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) appointed Abdus-Salaam, a veteran judge and lawyer, to be an associate judge on the Court of Appeals in 2013. In a statement released Wednesday afternoon, Cuomo called his colleague a “trailblazing jurist” who fought for a fair and just New York.

“As the first African-American woman to be appointed to the state’s Court of Appeals, she was a pioneer,” Cuomo said of the 65-year-old judge. “Through her writings, her wisdom, and her unshakable moral compass, she was a force for good whose legacy will be felt for years to come.”

Abdus-Salaam grew up in a poor family of seven children in Washington, D.C., according to the New York State Bar. She went on to graduate from Barnard College in 1974 and received her law degree from Columbia University in 1977.

She started her impressive legal career as a staff attorney at East Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation, before going on to serve as an assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Bureau of New York State’s attorney general’s office and, later, as general counsel for the New York City Office of Labor Services.

As an assistant attorney general, Abdus-Salaam won an anti-discrimination lawsuit involving more than 30 female New York City bus drivers who were denied promotions, The New York Times reported.

In 1991, Abdus-Salaam was elected as a Civil Court Judge for New York City and served there until she was elected in 1993 to the Manhattan Supreme Court, where she served for 15 years. At that time, she became the first female Muslim judge in the U.S., according to the Times. 

She was appointed by Gov. David Paterson as associate justice of the appellate division in 2009. Cuomo appointed her four years later to serve as one of seven judges on the state’s highest court, the Court of Appeals.

“Throughout my legal career, I have sought to uphold the laws of our state and treat all those who appear before me fairly and with respect and dignity,” Abdus-Salaam said at the time. 

Last August, Abdus-Salaam helped to expand the definition of parenthood and allow LGBTQ parents to seek the same parenting rights as biological parents, according to Lambda Legal, a New York-based nonprofit civil rights organization.

Judge Abdus-Salaam saw clearly how damaging it was to keep LGBT parents from their children,” Lambda Legal wrote in a blog post. “We owe her a tremendous debt of gratitude. She touched the lives of many New Yorkers; her legacy will live on.”

Carl Heastie, the first African-American to serve as the speaker of New York State Assembly, said in a statement Wednesday evening that Abdus-Salaam was “highly respected” and an “inspiration to many.”

“Her passing leaves a void that will be difficult to fill,” Heastie said. “This is a sad day for all New Yorkers.”

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LeBron James Plans Ohio Public School For At-Risk Kids

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Basketball superstar LeBron James plans to open a public school in his hometown of Akron, Ohio, for students at risk of falling behind in academics. 

The I Promise School will open for elementary students in the fall of 2018 with support from James’ family foundation, according to plans revealed on Tuesday. It plans classes for students in third and fourth grades during its first year, and will expand to include grades 1 though 8 by 2022.

The school will draw students who “are at-risk in reading and who are in need of additional academic intervention before falling further behind their peers,” the LeBron James Family Foundation said in a statement.  

James, the Cleveland Cavaliers’ star forward, was raised by a single mother. He entered the NBA in 2003 after emerging as a basketball phenom at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in Akron.

James spoke about the school at an event Tuesday in a historic Akron theater. “Even though I was underprivileged,” he said, he was lucky to grow up with mentors, his mother and close friends.

“They would not let me get off course,” he said. ”A lot of the kids I see today in the community and all over the world are not lucky enough to have the same mentors and the same people around that can help their dreams become reality.”

The I Promise School aims to provide a supportive environment for students who lack guidance, James said. 

“We definitely understand how important it is to create an environment where our most challenged and at risk students feel safe, supported an cared for,” said Akron Public Schools Superintendent David James at the event as a wall of adults in “We are family” T-shirts stood on stage. 

A formal proposal for the school will be submitted for school board approval in October. 

James has previously offered Akron kids educational opportunities. He created 1,100 full-tuition scholarships in 2015 to the University of Akron for teens who completed an “I Promise” program that included goals for attendance and grades.

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Seriously?! Officer Appears To Stomp On Handcuffed Suspect’s Head

The suspect was lying handcuffed on the ground, held down by one police officer, when another officer ran up and appeared to stomp on his head. A passerby captured the disturbing scene on video, leading to public outcry even from the mayor.

The incident occurred in Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday. Only two weeks earlier, the white officer with the heavy step had managed to avoid charges related to fatally shooting a black man in 2016, local 10 TV News reported.

Columbus Officer Zachary Rosen was responding to a report of a discharged firearm this past weekend when video recorded his use of what appears to be unreasonable force on the restrained suspect. The latter man, identified as DeMarco Anderson, is black.

“Are you serious?” Anderson is heard shouting after he was hit. “I got cuffs on, sir! Are you serious?”

The Columbus police agency distanced itself from the officer’s behavior, which it said in a statement “does not meet the standards [of] the Columbus Division of Police.” 

“It appears to be inconsistent with the values and training we instill in our officers,” the agency said. “The officer self-reported a kick to the suspect while the suspect was in custody. We’ll learn more as the investigation continues and take appropriate actions based on the facts gathered. The officer has been temporarily reassigned.”

Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther also condemned the officer’s actions in a post on Twitter, calling his behavior “unacceptable.”

According to court records cited by The Daily Beast, police originally confronted Anderson for allegedly threatening to shoot people inside a nearby home. He elbowed a different officer in the face and ran. Police caught up with him a block away. The suspect was allegedly found carrying a handgun and a substance suspected of being crack cocaine. He has since been charged with resisting arrest, obstructing official business, aggravated menacing, possession of controlled substances, and having weapons under disability.

Rosen has been reassigned to non-patrol duty while an investigation into the incident is conducted, Columbus Police Chief Kim Jacobs said at a press conference on Tuesday. While taking questions from reporters, she emphasized that while the video is disturbing, the investigation needs to run its course.

“Really, we don’t know enough yet,” Jacobs said after stressing that the video captured “only one angle.”

“You can’t always tell if contact was made. Video is recorded in 2D,” she said. “So there is potential that the camera does not see everything that occurred the way that it occurred.”

Still, she said, “using force against handcuffed prisoners is an issue.”

Officer Rosen’s conduct has been questioned before. He was one of two officers involved in a June 2016 shooting that killed 23-year-old Henry Green. The grand jury declined to indict either officer on charges related to that incident last month, WOSU reported.

Green had been walking with another man when he crossed paths with Rosen and fellow Officer Jason Bare, who were patrolling in an unmarked vehicle and wearing civilian clothes, The Columbus Dispatch reported. The officers said Green pointed a gun at the vehicle.

The two officers said they got out, identified themselves as police and ordered Green to drop his weapon. Instead he fired the gun at them, the officers said. They fired too. Green was hit seven times.

That description of events was later disputed by the man who had been walking with Green. That man said the officers did not identify themselves or give Green time to react, according to the Dispatch.

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Florida Police Officer Arrested In Shooting Of Unarmed Black Man

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Prosecutors charged a Florida police officer on Wednesday in the shooting last July of an unarmed black man who was seen on cellphone video lying in a street with his hands in the air at the time he was shot in the leg.

North Miami Police Department officer Jonathan Aledda was charged with attempted manslaughter, a felony, and culpable negligence, a misdemeanor, according to the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s office.

The shooting of behavioral therapist Charles Kinsey, who was with and caring for a severely autistic man when he was shot, was one in a series of police shootings of black men across the United States to raise questions about police use of force and civil rights.

Aledda defended his actions last July, saying “I did what I had to do in a split second.” The Miami-Dade Police Benevolent Association, which is representing Aledda, was not immediately available for comment.

The officer was responding to reports of a man with a gun and apparently was aiming at the autisic man when he shot Kinsey, according to an affidavit supporting the arrest warrant filed with the state court for Miami-Dade County.

Kinsey had followed police commands and was lying on the ground at the time he was shot. He had been trying to get the autistic man back to a nearby group home from which he had wandered. Hilton Napoleon, a lawyer for Kinsey, was not immediately available for comment.

Initial calls to 911 emergency dispatchers reported a man, possibly suicidal, with a gun in his hand, which led to the arrival of 16 police officers, including Aledda. What a caller thought was a gun turned out to be a toy tanker truck held by the autistic man, according to the affidavit.

The affidavit said the autistic man, who is now 27 and has an IQ of 40, needed around-the-clock supervision.

In a video widely shared on social media, Kinsey can be heard yelling, “All he has is a toy truck in his hands.”

The affidavit said Aledda fired three shots using his personally owned Colt M4 Carbine rifle from about 150 feet (45 meters) where Kinsey lay.

“No other officer on the scene observed (the autistic man) exhibit any behavior that compelled them to shoot,” the affidavit says.

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