MARCH 2018 HEALTH WELLNESS & NUTRITION SUPPLEMENT
GENETIC GENIUS:
Exploring the Global Fascination with Origins & Ancestry
VOL. 53, NO. 21 • MARCH 8 - 14, 2018
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Paula Giddings Addresses Students on HU’s Promise
D.C. Unveils Statue of Marion Barry By Tatyana Hopkins WI Staff Writer Thousands gathered Saturday in D.C. on Pennsylvania Avenue wore green to make the street a little blacker. Residents and city officials, dressed in the campaign colors of the late Marion Barry Jr., converged in front of the John H. Wilson Building for the formal dedication and unveiling of a commemorative statue of the “Mayor for Life.” Barry is one of three African-Americans with a full-body statue erected and standing in the District and the first locally elected official to be honored with a statue, according to the mayor’s office. The eight-foot bronze statue honors Barry’s longtime public service to District residents. After his work as
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By Dominique Dickerson Howard University News Service
5 Current and past city council members stand in front of the new statue of Marion Barry outside the John H. Wilson Building in Northwest on Saturday, March 3 during a moving ceremony. /Photo by Shevry Lassiter
Cosby Retrial Moves Forward By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer Bill Cosby is taking a no-holds barred approach in his sexual assault case in Pennsylvania. The embattled comedian has asked Judge Steven O’Neill permission to unseal his decades-old civil settlement and payout to accuser Andrea Constand. While O’Neill ruled against Cosby’s request to dismiss the case, the judge is expected to decide other matters later this month after two days of hearings wrapped up this week in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
During hearings Monday and Tuesday, lawyers for both sides went after each other, with prosecutors asking the judge to remove Cosby’s defense attorneys because of what they called malicious prosecution. Cosby’s attorneys said prosecutors failed to tell the court that Constand lied when she said she didn’t know potential defense witness Margo Jackson, who worked at Temple with the accuser and alleges that Constand described a plot to set up the legendary comic. The judge is expected to rule
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5 Alumna and scholar Paula J. Giddings delivered the keynote address at Howard University’s 151st Charter Day Convocation on Friday, March 2 at Cramton Auditorium in Northwest. /Photo by Shevry Lassiter
While reflecting on her time as a student at Howard University and the power of protest, professor and author Paula Giddings spoke not only about the school’s potential for change, but its promise for the future. Giddings was the keynote speaker at the D.C.-based institution’s 151st annual Charter Day Convocation on Friday in the school’s Cramton Auditorium. “Howard, you gave me friendships I’ve endured a half-century, my first serious boyfriend, a sisterhood of my soros and you gave me my first Afro that made my mother cry,” said Giddings in her speech which was crafted as an open letter to her alma mater. Giddings, the Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professor Emerita of Africana Studies at Smith College, shared with the audience not only the good times she experienced at Howard, but also the many challenges she faced as a student. “There was a college culture that was not student-loving,” she said. “Tangled registration, year after year, inadequate housing and utilities,” Giddings said as she described the issues that surfaced during her time at Howard between 1965 to 1969. Some students in the audience
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