1925 lynching of a Black Jacksonville man memorialized Sunday jacksonville.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jacksonville.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Almost a century after he was killed by police, this weekend people in Jacksonville will commemorate a Black man whose corpse was put on display for curiosity seekers as being the victim of a racial terror lynching.
Willie Washington, a 22-year-old chauffeur, was shot inside his family’s downtown home on Jan. 31, 1925 after a weeklong manhunt for a nameless Black man who had attacked a white society woman.
What happened after the shooting made his death a lynching.
“The body of the negro was placed on exhibit yesterday at 11 o’clock following a conference of local officials,” the Times-Union reported at the time.
A Yale Student Is Killed. An M.I.T. Student Is Wanted for Questioning.
Kevin Jiang’s killing has attracted attention because of ties to Yale and has put a spotlight on an uptick in shootings in New Haven, Conn.
Kevin Jiang had become engaged a week before he was shot down near his car in New Haven, Conn.
Feb. 11, 2021
Before he was killed on Saturday night, Kevin Jiang was on the cusp of momentous life changes. After serving in the military and spending time as a consultant, he was on track to finish a graduate program at Yale. He had just proposed to his fiancée a week earlier, and he was days from his 27th birthday, on Valentine’s Day.
Entrepreneurs get keys to Silver Hill businesses
Article by January 23, 2021
Five ‘blockpreneurs’ from Silver Hill were the first to sign licensing agreements and receive keys to their kiosks as part of the Government’s Building Blocks project.
At the signing and handing over ceremony at Green Hill, Silver Hill, Christ Church on Friday morning, Minister of Youth, Sports and Community Empowerment Dwight Sutherland, encouraged the five – Randy Went, Corey Kellman, Davico Went-Weekes, Kimberley Allen and Matthew King – “to go out there and to take on the world, and do not settle for having a kiosk at Silver Hill”.
He said: “The Building Blocks Project initiative is about community empowerment and providing opportunities for young people to realise their dreams of becoming entrepreneurs, and I’m indeed happy to be here to be part of this historic occasion, whereby, you young people and you ‘blockpreneurs’ feel empowered and feel as if you
Aravo Reports Record Demand for Third-Party Risk Management and Supply Chain Resilience Technology
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Having all of that information in one system – who our critical suppliers were, who the contacts at those companies were – and being able to quickly deploy that using Aravo proved instrumental. That was a big help for us. SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) January 14, 2021 Aravo Solutions, a leader in intelligent automation for third-party risk and performance management, today announced that they had seen record demand in 2020 for their technology solutions designed to improve approaches to third-party management.
The significant disruption to supply chains in the wake of COVID-19, together with a growing terrain of emerging risks, has become a catalyst for many organizations to reexamine how they manage third parties that provide goods and services critical to their operations.