Georgetown launches Racial Justice Institute
Georgetown’s first university-wide racial justice effort, the Racial Justice Institute (RJI) will come into effect four years after the university committed to its creation.
The new institute, officially launched in a community-wide email on Feb. 22 by University President John DeGioia, will address issues of racial injustice and inequality across university disciplines. The RJI is intended to serve as a meeting place for activists and scholars to address the history of racial discrimination and oppression and promote the well-being of BIPOC.
The concept for the RJI was born in 2016 as part of Georgetown’s effort to address its own history with slavery. In February of that year, DeGioia committed Georgetown to establishing some form of the RJI, which was partially formulated by a Racial Justice Working Group composed of faculty, staff, and students. A second committee of faculty in 2019 identified the four areas of focus for th
MIAMI – Property owners are complaining about the advantages that squatters, who don’t have a valid lease or pay rent, seem to be enjoying in Miami-Dade County.
Miami-Dade Commission Chairman Jose “Pepe” Diaz said it’s a problem that needs to be handled immediately. Miami Commissioner Raquel Regalado agrees.
“This is about property rights,” Regalado said. “Every Friday, we bring this up, and every Friday we are told that ‘There are no squatters!’ that ‘Squatters are being removed!’ and then . we hear another story. We get another e-mail, another constituent that says that isn’t the case.”
A property owner in Miami said the eviction moratorium in Miami-Dade nearly bankrupted her because she couldn t remove squatters.
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Derek Griffith became the first driver since Pete Orr in 1994 to win back-to-back Super Late Model titles at New Smyrna Speedway s World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing. Photo: Jim Dupont/NASCAR
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. – Stephen Nasse won the big race, but Derek Griffith will again wear the crown.
Nasse led every lap of the annual Orange Blossom 100 that closed out the week for the Super Late Model division, allowing him to complete a sweep of the 100-lap features for the Super Late Model and Pro Late Model divisions at Florida’s New Smyrna Speedway on consecutive days.
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When you walk into Mezza Luna Restaurant in Buzzards Bay, you encounter a wall of snapshots and handwritten notes crowded together and sometimes overlapping showing families marking occasions from christenings to weddings to bereavements.
Owner E. J. Cubellis II (Emilio John, but few know that because he has always been E.J.) took over the business in 1993 at age 21 from his father, E.J. Cubellis, also an Emilio but called Johnny. Johnny took over the business from his mother, Speranza Cubellis, who started Mezza Luna in 1937 out of the family home.
The generations of family owners and the wall of patrons’ photos, as well as the hearty greetings of “E.J., how are you E.J.?” when he walks through Mezza Luna’s five dining spaces all speak to why Cubellis, 48, reopened the restaurant after taking a four-month break from March 29 to July 27, 2020.
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Derek Griffith celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the Super Late Model feature at Florida’s New Smyrna Saturday on Night 2 of the World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing. Photo: Jim Dupont/NASCAR
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. – Derek Griffith finished on the podium during Friday’s David Rogers Super Late Model feature that opened the 55th World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing at New Smyrna Speedway, but that simply wasn’t enough for the driver from New Hampshire.
Fast forward to Saturday and Griffith, the defending World Series champion in the David Rogers Super Late Model division, was in his own zip code as he roared to his first victory of the week and third of his career during the World Series.