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Essma Bengabsia was proud to be one of the first hijab-wearing women on the New York trading floor for BlackRock Inc., the world s biggest asset manager.
Hired in 2018 as an analyst, the North Bergen, New Jersey, resident was ready to make her mark on the financial world, after graduating from the prestigious NYU Stern School of Business.
“When I came into the company, I was the only person who looked the way I looked on the trading floor,” Bengabsia, 23, said in a recent interview. “I recognized I was very much charting new territory and trailblazing for women who look like me.”
Last week, during a virtual public hearing about Maryland s rollout of COVID-19 vaccines for Latino and Black communities, two people made fun of Montgomery County Councilmember Nancy Navarro while she was speaking. The two people, a council employee and a contractor from the nonprofit Montgomery Community Media, were overheard on the Zoom call discussing Navarro s speech. I love how her accent comes out and pronounces words like she thinks they re pronounced. Like, she says represents and hologram, the woman said, according to WZDC. I heard hologram and thought that was kind of interesting, a man said while laughing. So cute, the woman responded.
Derek Chauvin proves America is still hiring the exact wrong people to be cops
We know we need police reform. But how do we prevent bad cops from being hired in the first place?
Derek Chauvin s trial reminds us about the work still to be done to reform the police.Chandan Khanna / AFP - Getty Images
March 9, 2021, 10:34 AM UTC
Two events are converging this week that could prompt renewed hopes to change both police conduct and who gets to join those agencies.
Are we doing enough to prevent the next Derek Chauvin?
On Feb. 24, the House passed a police reform bill called the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. The bill, a policing overhaul named for George Floyd, the 46-year-old Black man who died last Memorial Day after Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee against Floyd’s neck for almost eight minutes, passed 220 to 212, mostly along party lines.
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