Born on Christmas Day, Santa Staples was a masterful nurse who ran the operating room with military precision, showing up at 3:30 a.m. on her day off to handle a particularly complex surgery. Not one to suffer fools, she had a flintiness that could intimidate even the neurosurgeons. These people get so sick. The ones that get sick get so, so sick. Every system in their body shuts down. Our last, last resort is to put people on a ventilator. We are only doing it now if we absolutely have to. And they’re not gonna fare well, usually, if they get put on a ventilator. Outcomes are not good.”
When I first left America, I left behind a lifetime of waiting for racism to end.
It was 2013, I was 23 and had just finished college. I bought a one-way ticket dated the day of the graduation ceremony. As the plane took off from JFK and landed in Trinidad, relief washed over me. I finally felt like I could breathe. I had no plan for how I would make a life for myself, but I knew there wasn’t one for me back in America. Still, I tried time and time again, even after that moment, to return to the home I knew, only to realize again that it would never fully embrace me as a Black woman.
Honestie Hodges to be laid to rest Friday
By: FOX 17
and last updated 2020-12-09 22:16:39-05
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. â Honestie Hodges is scheduled to be laid to rest this Friday.
Honestie died of COVID-19 late last month at the age of 14.
The Grand Rapids Police Department s âHonestie Policyâ was named after her, following a handcuffing incident in 2017 when she was 11 years old.
A public viewing is expected to take place at Brownâs Funeral Home at
9 a.m. on Dec. 11 until noon. A private funeral will be held afterward.
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much love lost here among many sources in the west wing. one source described omarosa as, quote, one disaster after the next. david? okay. cecilia vega with us tonight. thank you. next, to a deadly shooting on a college campus near pittsburgh. the penn state beaver campus put on lockdown when shots were fired. police finding two people dead, a man and a woman, an apparent murder-suicide. neither were students. next, to grand rapids, michigan. officers pointing their guns at an 11-year-old girl, handcuffing her as she screamed for her mother to help. and what the police chief is now saying tonight. here s abc s alex perez. reporter: this hard to watch video sparking outrage tonight. no! no! you re not going to jail or anything. no! keep your hands up! quit crying. stop yelling! reporter: those screams from 11-year-old honestie hodges. the incident, captured on the officer s body cam, began when the elementary school student, her mother and aunt were leaving a home