Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) returned to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama where he marched and was beaten for fighting for civil rights 55 years ago and gave a short speech to the crowd and to the press.
Watch that speech below:
Sunday, March 01, 2020
Black churchgoers in Selma turn their backs on Bloomberg
Congregants at the historic Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama, silently protested 2020 presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg as he delivered remarks there Sunday, standing and turning their backs on the former New York City mayor.
Bloomberg addressed the congregation at Brown Chapel AME Church during a church service in which he discussed voter suppression and the fight for civil rights. But roughly 10 minutes into his remarks, several in attendance rose from their seats and silently turned away from him.
The churchgoers remained standing through the end of Bloomberg's remarks.
Also attending the service at Brown Chapel was former Vice President Joe Biden, who won Saturday's South Carolina primary, and Stacey Abrams, who unsuccessfully ran for governor of Georgia in 2018.
After the service, Biden and Bloomberg were set to be joined by fellow candidates Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg for the annual march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to commemorate "Bloody Sunday," when police beat peaceful marchers in 1965.
Erika James: The first woman to be appointed dean of the Wharton School
Erika H. James has been named the next dean of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, effective July 1. The announcement was made by Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett.
James is the first woman to be appointed dean of the Wharton School.
“Erika is an award-winning scholar and teacher and a strong, proven leader who serves as dean of the Goizueta Business School at Emory University,” said Gutmann. “A passionate and visible champion of the power of business and business education to positively transform communities locally, nationally, and globally, she is exceptionally well prepared to lead Wharton into the next exciting chapter of its storied history.
James’ career has been notable for her commitment to meaningful cross-disciplinary collaboration, superb scholarship, passionate teaching, and excellence through diversity and inclusion. Since becoming dean of the Goizueta Business School in 2014, she has introduced and led an effort to build an innovation and entrepreneurship lab open to all students on campus. She grew the Goizueta faculty by 25 percent by the end of her first term, building a critical mass of junior faculty and seasoned scholars in key academic areas such as behavioral and decision-based research, business analytics, and health care innovation. With strong faculty input and support, she also expanded corporate engagement with the creation of a research-based corporate think tank.
“Erika has consistently and constructively drawn upon her own scholarship in the areas of leadership development, organizational behavior, gender and racial diversity, and crisis leadership,” Pritchett said, “applying her own insights into human behavior to foster a work culture that allows people to thrive personally and professionally. She has led faculty and student workshops on such topics as unconscious bias and building trust across divides and has been engaged as a consultant by some of the nation’s largest and most prestigious firms.”
“This is an exciting time to be in business education,” James said. “The scope and platform of the Wharton School provides an opportunity to create far reaching impact for students, scholars, and the business community.”
At Emory, James undertook a significant redesign of the undergraduate business curriculum, integrating immersive learning, technology, and partnerships with Emory College’s liberal arts curriculum.
Prior to her deanship, she served as the senior associate dean for executive education at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, working closely with faculty to reimagine executive education and lifelong learning opportunities.
James is an active member of the SurveyMonkey Board and the Graduate Management Admissions Council, and previously served on the board of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the foremost accrediting body in business education. She was awarded the Earl Hill Jr. Faculty Achievement and Diversity Award from The Consortium, an organization committed to increasing diversity in business, starting with graduate school admissions. She has also been named one of the Top 10 Women of Power in Education by Black Enterprise and as one of the Power 100 by Ebony Magazine.
She holds a Ph.D. and master’s degree in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan and received a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Pomona College of the Claremont Colleges, in California. In addition to her roles at Emory and UVA, she has served as an assistant professor at Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business and a visiting professor at Harvard Business School.
James will succeed Geoff Garrett, who is to become dean of the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business.
“Wharton has risen to even greater heights throughout Geoff’s enormously successful six-year tenure, reinforcing all of its traditional strengths while also building its global force in data analytics, entrepreneurship, fintech, behavioral economics, and other fields that are defining the future of business,” Gutmann said.
Dexter Jackson: 2020 Olympia will be my final contest
Jackson will retire having won more bodybuilding competitions than any bodybuilder ever.
.Dexter Jackson statement:
"I’VE THOUGHT LONG AND HARD ABOUT HOW I WANT MY CAREER TO END,” SAID JACKSON. “I WANT TO GO OUT ON MY OWN TERMS. I’M STILL CAPABLE OF WINNING ANY SHOW I ENTER AND IN SEPTEMBER I’M TAKING ONE FINAL SHOT AT TAKING HOME A SECOND SANDOW. THE OLYMPIA IS THE GREATEST SHOW IN BODYBUILDING AND I WANT MY FINAL POSEDOWN TO BE ON THAT STAGE IN VEGAS AGAINST THE BEST IN THE WORLD.
“THE 2020 OLYMPIA WILL BE MY FINAL CONTEST, SO I HOPE EVERYONE WHO HAS SUPPORTED ME WILL BE THERE TO MAKE IT SPECIAL.”
Saturday, February 29, 2020
Kerwin Danley to be named first African-American MLB crew chief
Major League Baseball announced has announced that umpire Kerwin Danley will be promoted to crew chief. Danley will be the first African-American crew chief in MLB.
Danley, 58, called his first game in the majors in 1992 as a minor league fill-in and was hired as a full time big league up in 1998. He has worked two World Series and has worked ten other postseason rounds. He has also called two All-Star Games.
Danley called his first game in the majors in 1992 as a fill-in and was hired to the MLB staff in 1998.
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