(BPRW) Keisha Taylor Starr Appointed New Chief Marketing Officer for Scripps Networks (Black PR Wire) ATLANTA – Keisha Taylor Starr has been hired as chief marketing officer for Scripps Networks, effective Jan. 3, 2022. Taylor Starr will set the vision and lead marketing strategies across the portfolio of the nine Scripps national networks as well […]
Did you know that Orlando’s first female Chief of Police Valdez Demings is a member of Delta Sigma Theta? Demings pledged the Orlando Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Valdez Demings is an African American politician serving as the U.S. representative from Florida’s 10th congressional district. Demings has been representing the western Orlando […]
“My choice to have a baby was personal and it should’ve been mine alone and not for an employer ultimatum,” Dickerson said during a community meeting NBC News reported. Karen Arikpo, who was in the same training class with Dickerson in 1997, and her female sergeant gave Arikpo and the rest of the class the […]
History has been made as the General President of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. has named Ramon E. Peralta, Jr. LHD, the fraternity’s first-ever chief creative advisor. According to a press release issued by the fraternity, this is the first of such roles among National Pan-Hellenic Council fraternities and sororities. Peralta is a 1989 […]
She said the backup officers who arrived were good officers who helped deescalate the situation. “The police, the men that pulled up, they were good officers and they handed it in such a smooth way,” Stewart said. Stewart expressed that suspending DeSimone was a good step, however, she said he needed to be let go. […]
The city of Ferguson, Missouri has a new police chief and he is a brother of Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. Frank McCall, a Fall 1980 initiate of the Alpha Beta Chapter of Iota Phi Theta at Southern Illinois University -Edwardsville, is set to take over the police department on August 2nd. McCall will take […]
(BPRW) WIKIMEDIA COO JANEEN UZZELL TO JOIN THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS AS CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Respected Technology Executive, People Developer, Transformational Leader and Engineer Will Take the Helm on July 7 (Black PR Wire) ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) has announced the selection of veteran technology executive, engineer, […]
South Carolina artist is speaking out after Columbia police detained him in handcuffs according to WLTX 19. Police officers believed the artist was an intruder. John Sims is an artist-in-residence at 701 CCA and the facility allows the artist to sleep and work there while his art is being displayed. The Columbia Police Department says […]
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) — The police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb apparently intended to fire a Taser, not a handgun, as the man struggled with police, the city’s police chief said Monday. Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon described the shooting as “an accidental […]
During the fall of 2019 it seemed like St. Louis County Lt. Col. Troy Doyle was to become the department’s first Black police chief. However, it all came to a stop when County Executive Sam Page started having campaign contribution issues, according to a discrimination lawsuit Doyle filed according to KSDK. Page told Doyle he […]