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Kurt Cummings spent most of his adult life serving in law enforcement. After seven years as public safety chief at A Pocono Country Place in Tobyhanna, Cummings retired his badge to fulfill a life-long dream: opening his own chicken wing restaurant called Wingz And A Prayer. A 2015 Cornell study on restaurant failure rates found that 30% of all restaurants go out of business within their first year. When it comes to independently-owned restaurants (versus corporate-owned chains), the odds of making it past the first year of business are only 10%. Minority business owners have even lower success rates. According to a CNBC report, eight out of 10 Black-owned businesses fail within the first 18 months. ....
Madden, Williams endorse Kenyatta for U.S. Senate at Mount Pocono campaign stop State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta (D-181) stopped in Mount Pocono Friday to pick up two early endorsements in his Democratic primary campaign for U.S. Senate. State Rep. Maureen Madden (D-115) and Mount Pocono Borough Council President Claudette Williams pledged their support for Kenyatta, the second candidate to join the race after Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, during a campaign event at the Women Veteran and Military Family Services Building. “I have witnessed firsthand his fierce passion for the development and prosperity of Pennsylvania and all the people who live here,” Madden said. “I believe this passion and dedication for improving the lives of all the people of the commonwealth belongs in Washington, D.C.” ....
Yet over the past year, Black individuals across the country have witnessed and been the targets of brutality from law enforcement as they engaged in peaceful protests supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. Thomas Jones, president of Monroe County United, said that the difference in the crowds participating in the Capitol riot and the Black Lives Matter events was jarringly clear. While Black Lives Matter protests were largely orchestrated in a peaceful manner by minorities and allies; in Washington, D.C., there were swaths of white supremacist hate groups including the Proud Boys, Nazis, and Patriot Front, who were looking for a fight. ....