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Saturday, November 04, 2017
Brazile says she considered swapping Clinton for Biden as 2016 nominee
Friday, November 03, 2017
Maxine Waters to Sessions: 'Time to go back to the plantation'
Read Waters tweet below:
Sessions doesn't remember what he said, when he said it, & where he was when he said it. Don't blame him. Time to go back to the plantation.— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) November 3, 2017
6 Florida firefighters fired for noose hung on black colleague's photo
The city said the firefighters left a hangman’s noose on a photo of fellow first responder, who is a 17-year veteran. Watch more on this story below:
Thursday, November 02, 2017
FDNY veteran Tonya Boyd will become department's first black female deputy chief
An EMS captain with 21 years on the job will become the first African-American woman in the FDNY to achieve the rank of deputy chief on Thursday.
Capt. Tonya Boyd, who joined the FDNY’s Emergency Medical Services while in college as a way to make money, said she never dreamed her career would reach such heights.
“I’m so excited and I am so blessed,” the EMS officer told the New York Daily News.
“After hearing about the promotion, I couldn’t believe it. I feel like I’ve knocked down a door and opened it for a lot of EMTs just starting on this job,” said Boyd.
“African-American women will see someone who looks like them as a deputy chief and they will know more is possible — their careers won’t top out at paramedic or even lieutenant,” said the captain of Station 39 in Brooklyn.
Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said Boyd’s success was due to her efforts.
“Tonya is not only helping to raise the bar for our ability to provide pre-hospital care, she's also demonstrating to young women of all backgrounds the incredible rewarding career they can achieve in the FDNY,” Nigro said.
Read more: FDNY veteran Tonya Boyd will become department's first black female deputy chief
Wednesday, November 01, 2017
Dominique Brooks is missing!
Dominique Brooks of Joliet, Illinois is missing.
She is about 5-foot-6 and was wearing a blue-and-white coat with long sleeves that had a skull on it, maroon skinny jeans and red-and-white Nike shoes.
The Joliet Police Department Investigations unit said there were no leads on the case as of Monday afternoon.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Joliet Police Department Investigations at 815-724-3020.