A look into late Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon’s legacy During times of racial strife or social upheaval Benny Napoleon always led by example
Tags:
The late Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon was a transcendent figure. He spent most of his law enforcement career with the Detroit Police Department becoming police chief in 1998.
Napoleon went on to become Wayne County assistant executive and then sheriff in 2009. It was his passion for Detroit that made him a household name. His charitable work included coat drives for kids and successful golf fundraisers.
Napoleon was a proud Cass Tech alumni spending years raising money for student programs. He was an admired and well respected law enforcement official. Those who know him say his daughter Tiffany is proof of his character. And that he set the bar high for future generations of Detroiters.
Opponents of mandatory vaccinations for public school dominate hearing
FacebookTwitterEmail
School buses are parked in neat rows at the Trumbull school bus depot at 81 Spring Hill Road in Trumbull, Conn. on Wednesday, April 1, 2020.Brian A. Pounds/Hearst Connecticut Media
Dozens of parents on Tuesday threatened to move out of the state and at least one suggested legal action if the General Assembly makes them vaccinate their kids to attend public and private school.
The hearing that was set to last 24 hours, until Wednesday morning, was over lawmakers’ attempt to severely limit exemptions to the mandatory vaccination of school children for measles, mumps, rubella and other diseases, ending religious objections.
One of Navy s first Black four-star admirals says military has work to do on diversity
Dan Lamothe, The Washington Post
Feb. 16, 2021
FacebookTwitterEmail
Retired Adm. Cecil Haney served as commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and the U.S. Strategic Command, where he oversaw nuclear weapons.Washington Post photo by Michael S. Williamson
The young midshipman heard the question but kept walking as he neared a group of White students at the Naval Academy. You know, the only reason you re here is the quota system, right? one of them said.
Cecil Haney, a Black student from a Black neighborhood in the District of Columbia, did not respond. His family had warned him that he could face racism at the academy, and more than 40 years later, he remembers the remark clearly.
Bridgeport councilman gets COVID vaccine, urges skeptical Black residents to get theirs
FacebookTwitterEmail
City councilman Ernest Newton speaks at a news conference at the Morton Government Center, in Bridgeport, Conn. Oct. 20, 2020.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media
BRIDGEPORT Normally draped in his trademark richly colored suits when out and about, Councilman Ernie Newton is publicly baring an arm for a cause.
“I’m here today to get my shot because I believe that this will help us not spread the disease,” Newton says in a video posted online on Facebook over the weekend.
With some minorities hesitant to receive the two-dose coronavirus vaccinations, Newton, a longtime Black community leader and politician, recently pledged to promote his inoculation in order to convince constituents it is safe to do so.