Sunday, July 23, 2023. Annette’s News Roundup.
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Joe is always busy.
Getting a jump on potential problems.
Today, I was joined by leaders from American companies driving innovation in AI to announce their voluntary commitments for responsible innovation.
— President Biden (@POTUS) July 21, 2023
These commitments – which companies will implement immediately – underscore the principles of safety, security, and trust. pic.twitter.com/6kvrcl4krv
CNN —
President Joe Biden has selected Admiral Lisa Franchetti to be the Navy’s top officer. If confirmed, she would be the first woman in the Navy’s history to hold the job, and the first woman in the joint chiefs of staff.
President Biden to Establish National Monument Honoring Emmett Till.
The new monument will protect and uplift the spaces that tell the story of Till’s abbreviated life and racially-motivated murder, the unjust acquittal of his murderers and the activism of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, who courageously brought the world’s attention to the brutal injustices and racism of the time.
This monument will be located at three separate, existing sites in Illinois and Mississippi, including Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in Bronzeville, the historically Black neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, where thousands gathered to mourn and bear witness to Till’s death in September 1955.
The monument in Mississippi will include Graball Landing, believed to be where Till’s mutilated body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River. The third is the Tallahatchie County Second District Courthouse in Sumner, Mississippi, where Till’s murderers were tried by an all-white jury and acquitted.
The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument will be President Biden’s fourth new national monument since taking office in 2021.
“The designation reflects the Biden-Harris Administration’s work to advance civil rights and commitment to protecting places that help tell a more complete story of our nation’s history,” a White House official said.
In the last few years, various parties have made a concerted effort to raise awareness around Emmett and his mother’s story.
In April, Argo Community High School in Summit, Illinois, unveiled a life-sized bronze sculpture of Till-Mobley, a former student.
Inscribed on that sculpture is Till-Mobley’s famous quote, which concerns her consequential decision to give her son an open casket at his funeral: “Let them see what I have seen.”
Her anguished decision to allow her son’s mutilated body to be displayed in such a manner at his funeral drew the world’s attention to the cruelty and barbarism of American racism.
Till-Mobley’s decision is one of the pivotal moments that helped galvanize the civil rights movement. (Chicago Defender).
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Kamala is always busy.
DeSantis at work -
Florida's 2023 Social Studies curriculum will include lessons on how "slaves developed skills" that could be used for "personal benefit," according to a copy of the state's academic standards reviewed by CBS News.
The Vice President answers. Touch 👇 to watch.
To suggest that enslaved people somehow benefited from slavery is not only misleading, it is false. This is revisionist history. pic.twitter.com/2j0sPWP5O8
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) July 21, 2023
VP Harris in Florida: "Come on — adults know what slavery really involved. It involved rape. It involved torture. It involved taking a baby from their mother. It involved some of the worst examples of depriving people of humanity in our world. How is it that anyone could suggest that in the midst of these atrocities, that there was any benefit to being subjected to this level of dehumanization?"
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What are women’s sports worth?
Transparency- I have been dreaming about putting together a group for an WNBA team. The key word is dreaming.
Watch Serena’s husband. 👇
Yeah I said it https://t.co/kBG4IQpAWn
— Alexis Ohanian 🇦🇲 (@alexisohanian) May 24, 2023
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Does anyone not like Golden Retrievers?
I know, I know -they have never not won Westminster. But the question remains -
Does anyone not like Golden Retrievers?
Why Did 488 Golden Retrievers Gather in Scotland?
About every five years, owners and their dogs travel to Guisachan [Scotland] in the Highlands to celebrate the anniversary of the breed’s founding. This year’s edition was the biggest yet.
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