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Wednesday, June 27, 2018
From the Fields to the Farm
An excerpt from USA Today -
Meet the farmworker's daughter who just landed a $350K scholarship to Stanford
By Cristian Ponce
SALINAS, Calif. — Everett Alvarez High School's valedictorian will attend Stanford University this fall, and one of the world's richest couples will be picking up the $350,000 tab.
Salinas-native Angela Gomez, 17, is just one of two Monterey County students to receive the Gates Scholarship from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation this year.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/06/26/gates-foundation-farmworkers-daughter-stanford-scholarship/737077002/
Meet the farmworker's daughter who just landed a $350K scholarship to Stanford
By Cristian Ponce
SALINAS, Calif. — Everett Alvarez High School's valedictorian will attend Stanford University this fall, and one of the world's richest couples will be picking up the $350,000 tab.
Salinas-native Angela Gomez, 17, is just one of two Monterey County students to receive the Gates Scholarship from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation this year.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/06/26/gates-foundation-farmworkers-daughter-stanford-scholarship/737077002/
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Black Brew
An excerpt from the Root -
Meet the 1st Black Brewers of Georgia
By Montana Couser
Here’s something you don’t see every day: a black-owned brewery.
Out of the 66 breweries in Georgia, only one is owned by black people: Down Home Brewing Co. Chris Reeves and William Allen Moore, the two men behind the brewery, started canning beer in March 2018 at BlueTarp, Georgia’s smallest production brewery, east of downtown Decatur.
https://www.theroot.com/meet-the-1st-black-brewers-of-georgia-1827105562?utm_source=theroot_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2018-06-25
Meet the 1st Black Brewers of Georgia
By Montana Couser
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| Chris Reeves and William Allen Moore of Down Home Brewery | Screenshot: WXIA-TV |
Here’s something you don’t see every day: a black-owned brewery.
Out of the 66 breweries in Georgia, only one is owned by black people: Down Home Brewing Co. Chris Reeves and William Allen Moore, the two men behind the brewery, started canning beer in March 2018 at BlueTarp, Georgia’s smallest production brewery, east of downtown Decatur.
https://www.theroot.com/meet-the-1st-black-brewers-of-georgia-1827105562?utm_source=theroot_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2018-06-25
Another Day. Another Incident.
An excerpt from the Root -
Black Firefighter Conducting City-Mandated Inspections in Oakland Hills, Calif., Questioned by Residents, Reported to Police
By Breanna Edwards
An Oakland, Calif., firefighter doing his duty to serve his community, conducting city-mandated inspections around Oakland Hills, actually had the police called on him, and on another occasion, he was harassed questioned and recorded by a resident who thought he was suspicious even though he was in full uniform and had his fire truck parked nearby.
Again, we are witnessing black people not being able to exist without being greeted by racial biases and sometimes the outright ugly face of racism.
“It’s extremely unfortunate,” Fire Capt. Damon Covington, president of the Oakland Black Firefighters Association, told the San Francisco Chronicle. “From the outside, it certainly appears to be unfair and unwarranted. The fire service is a microcosm of the world. Racism exists in the world, and it exists in Oakland and everywhere else.”
https://www.theroot.com/black-firefighter-conducting-city-mandated-inspections-1827099670
Black Firefighter Conducting City-Mandated Inspections in Oakland Hills, Calif., Questioned by Residents, Reported to Police
By Breanna Edwards
An Oakland, Calif., firefighter doing his duty to serve his community, conducting city-mandated inspections around Oakland Hills, actually had the police called on him, and on another occasion, he was harassed questioned and recorded by a resident who thought he was suspicious even though he was in full uniform and had his fire truck parked nearby.
Again, we are witnessing black people not being able to exist without being greeted by racial biases and sometimes the outright ugly face of racism.
“It’s extremely unfortunate,” Fire Capt. Damon Covington, president of the Oakland Black Firefighters Association, told the San Francisco Chronicle. “From the outside, it certainly appears to be unfair and unwarranted. The fire service is a microcosm of the world. Racism exists in the world, and it exists in Oakland and everywhere else.”
https://www.theroot.com/black-firefighter-conducting-city-mandated-inspections-1827099670
Saying It Without Saying It
From VerySmartBrothas -
40 Ways White People Say ‘White People’ Without Actually Saying ‘White People’
By Damon Young
https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/40-ways-white-people-say-white-people-without-actually-1827101126?utm_source=theroot_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2018-06-25
40 Ways White People Say ‘White People’ Without Actually Saying ‘White People’
By Damon Young
https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/40-ways-white-people-say-white-people-without-actually-1827101126?utm_source=theroot_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2018-06-25
The Ripple Effect of High Housing Costs
An excerpt from the New York Times -
San Francisco Restaurants Can’t Afford Waiters. So They’re Putting Diners to Work.
The city offers a case study of how high housing costs alter the economics of everything else, including restaurant service.
By Emily Badger
SAN FRANCISCO — Souvla, a Greek restaurant with a devoted following, serves spit-fired meat two ways: in a photogenic sandwich, or on a photogenic salad, either available with a glass of Greek wine. The garnishes are thoughtful: pea shoots, harissa-spiked yogurt, mizithra cheese.
The small menu is so appealing and the place itself so charming that you almost forget, as a diner, that you have to do much of the work of dining out yourself. You scout your own table. You fetch and fill your own water glass. And if you’d like another glass of wine, you go back to the counter.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/dining/san-francisco-restaurants-service.html
San Francisco Restaurants Can’t Afford Waiters. So They’re Putting Diners to Work.
The city offers a case study of how high housing costs alter the economics of everything else, including restaurant service.
By Emily Badger
SAN FRANCISCO — Souvla, a Greek restaurant with a devoted following, serves spit-fired meat two ways: in a photogenic sandwich, or on a photogenic salad, either available with a glass of Greek wine. The garnishes are thoughtful: pea shoots, harissa-spiked yogurt, mizithra cheese.
The small menu is so appealing and the place itself so charming that you almost forget, as a diner, that you have to do much of the work of dining out yourself. You scout your own table. You fetch and fill your own water glass. And if you’d like another glass of wine, you go back to the counter.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/dining/san-francisco-restaurants-service.html
If This is Low income . . .
An excerpt from SFGate -
A six-figure salary is considered 'low income' in San Francisco, and the threshold is rising
By Michelle Robertson
The Bay Area is so expensive, earning $117,400 a year qualifies you as "low income" in some counties.
Every year the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development releases "income limits," the minimum income level required to qualify for some affordable housing programs.
To be considered "low income" in San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin counties, a family of four must earn $117,400 a year. "Very low income" is considered $73,300.
https://www.sfgate.com/expensive-san-francisco/article/low-income-families-sf-bay-area-hud-statistics-13024580.php
A six-figure salary is considered 'low income' in San Francisco, and the threshold is rising
By Michelle Robertson
The Bay Area is so expensive, earning $117,400 a year qualifies you as "low income" in some counties.
Every year the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development releases "income limits," the minimum income level required to qualify for some affordable housing programs.
To be considered "low income" in San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin counties, a family of four must earn $117,400 a year. "Very low income" is considered $73,300.
https://www.sfgate.com/expensive-san-francisco/article/low-income-families-sf-bay-area-hud-statistics-13024580.php
I Was There - Go Rattlers!
From the Tallahassee Democrat -
Rattler Redux: FAMU documentary celebrates 1978 championship
By Rory Sharrock
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/sports/college/famu/2018/06/22/famu-documentary-celebrates-1978-championship/723104002/
Rattler Redux: FAMU documentary celebrates 1978 championship
By Rory Sharrock
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/sports/college/famu/2018/06/22/famu-documentary-celebrates-1978-championship/723104002/
Monday, June 25, 2018
Firemen Save the Day
From CNN -
These kids were carrying water in pots to fill up their pool. Then firefighters stopped to help.
By Amanda Jackson
It was a hot summer day in Charlotte, North Carolina, and these kids just wanted to splash around in their kiddie pool. But the only way they had to fill it was to carry pots of water from the sink.
Thanks to their local firefighters with the assist on the water, the children were cooling off in no time.
"Today, after leaving a medical call, Engine 18 stumbled across a family desperately trying to fill up a kiddy pool by filling pots from the sink for a little boys birthday on this sweltering day," Charlotte Fire Station 18 posted on Facebook on Sunday.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/25/us/firefighters-fill-pool-trnd/index.html
These kids were carrying water in pots to fill up their pool. Then firefighters stopped to help.
By Amanda Jackson
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| Charlotte firefighters stopped to help fill up this pool on Sunday. |
Thanks to their local firefighters with the assist on the water, the children were cooling off in no time.
"Today, after leaving a medical call, Engine 18 stumbled across a family desperately trying to fill up a kiddy pool by filling pots from the sink for a little boys birthday on this sweltering day," Charlotte Fire Station 18 posted on Facebook on Sunday.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/25/us/firefighters-fill-pool-trnd/index.html
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