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Anonymous ID: 488c6f Oct. 27, 2020, 7:05 a.m. No.11304826   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4843 >>4883

https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Teen-who-recorded-Floyd-death-on-phone-to-receive-15677637.php

 

NEW YORK (AP) — The teenager who recorded the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police in May will be honored in December by PEN America, the literary and human rights organization.

 

Darnella Frazier will be presented the PEN/Benenson Courage Award.

 

“With nothing more than a cell phone and sheer guts, Darnella changed the course of history in this country, sparking a bold movement demanding an end to systemic anti-Black racism and violence at the hands of police,” PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel said in a statement Tuesday.

 

The 17-year-old Frazier will share the Courage Award with Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who was pushed out by the Trump administration.

Anonymous ID: 488c6f Oct. 27, 2020, 7:39 a.m. No.11305191   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5213

https://prospect.org/politics/sources-gina-raimondo-being-considered-as-biden-treasury/

 

Joe Biden’s transition team has informed Democratic officials that Gina Raimondo, the centrist governor of Rhode Island, is under consideration as the next Secretary of the Treasury should Biden win the election, multiple sources have confirmed to the Prospect.

 

Raimondo, in her second term as governor, dazzled Biden’s campaign in interviews to become his vice president back in June. A former venture capitalist who took the governor’s mansion on the strength of millions of dollars in Wall Street donations, Raimondo’s name will stir the long memories of union leaders. They have held a grudge with her for years over her tenure as state treasurer, when she cut pension benefits for public employees, while steering over $1 billion in state money to hedge fund investments.

 

Raimondo, 49, graduated magna cum laude at Harvard and was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. She served as senior vice president at Village Ventures, a Massachusetts VC firm backed by Bain Capital, and later joined another firm named Point Judith Capital, before entering politics.