Madeline Swegle, Navy’s first Black female Tactical Aircraft pilot

Washington NFL team agrees to change its offensive name

(From NewsHero issue 137 available here)

Savannah Kinzer reads a statement after leading a group of fellow employees in a walkout at Whole Foods in Cambridge, Massachusetts (Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Image)

🦸‍♀️🦸‍♀️🦸‍♀️ — Madeline Swegle
🦸‍♀️🦸‍♀️🦸‍♀️ — Those seeking the truth of 1921 Tulsa
🦸‍♀️🦸‍♀️🦸‍♀️ — Black Lives Matter supporters
🦸‍♀️ — The Washington NFL team for FINALLY changing its offensive name

• In response to a post that Lt. j.g. Madeline Swegle had completed naval flight school and would later this month receive the flight officer insignia known as the “Wings of Gold,” the U.S. Navy tweeted Thursday, “MAKING HISTORY!” The Navy has welcomed its first Black female Tactical Aircraft pilot, AP News reports. The Naval Air Training Command also tweeted that Swegle is the Navy’s “first known Black female TACAIR pilot.”
• A test excavation for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre investigation for mass graves will resume next week, reports CNN. The excavation was announced in a release from the Tulsa Mayor’s office on Monday. “As a city, we are committed to exploring what happened in 1921 through a collective and transparent process — filling gaps in our city’s history and providing healing and justice to our community. In the past 99 years, no other agency or government entity has moved this far into an investigation that will seek truth into what happened in Tulsa in 1921,” Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum said in the release.
• Employees at some of the largest chains in the U.S. are wearing Black Lives Matter face masks and shirts on the job, reports Business Insider. Employees at grocery stores including Publix and Whole Foods have spoken out after they were banned from wearing Black Lives Matter masks and anti-racism shirts.
  “It is possible it’s uncomfortable for people, but it’s not political,” said Savannah Kinzer, who was sent home from work for wearing a BLM mask at a Whole Foods store in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “It’s human rights. It is a simple, simple statement: Black lives matter, that’s it. They matter.”
• The Washington Redskins NFL team announced Monday it’s changing its name and dropping the Indian head logo, bowing to recent pressure from sponsors and decades of criticism that they are offensive to Native Americans, The Associated Press reports. Because they are indeed offensive.

(From NewsHero issue 137 available here)

Sources:

• US Navy welcomes 1st Black female Tactical Aircraft pilot — AP News
• Test excavation for a potential 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre grave site will begin next week — CNN
• Workers speak out against Black Lives Matter face mask bans — Business Insider
• Washington’s NFL team drops ‘Redskins’ name after 87 years — AP News