If you're in search of a job that is related to environmental sustainability and you have experience with project management, Agrion has an opportunity for you. Its San Francisco office is currently seeking a community manager. The position entails overseeing the development and execution of multiple Agrion communities.
Responsibilities for the position involve researching and writing seminar content for communities, establishing relationships with leaders in the environmental-sustainability industry and contributing to the growth of the Agrion San Francisco office. Other duties include conducting phone and mail campaigns, assisting with event execution and performing general administrative tasks.
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Urban radio king Kurt "Big Boy" Alexander weighed in at more than 500 pounds before he underwent gastric bypass surgery 10 years ago. Now, at 195 pounds, he's sharing the story of his weight-loss journey and the success of his radio career in his new book, An XL Life: Staying Big at Half the Size. In the book, released last month and published by Cash Money Content (yes, the same Cash Money that brought us Lil Wayne), Big Boy spills his guts about it all: his love affair with music, food and his wife, and all challenges he's overcome to get where he is.
Big Boy spoke with The Root about being healthy, the dangers of weight-loss surgery and why he's so surprised by the reaction to his book.
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A Brooklyn, N.Y., mother has been arrested after she abandoned her two toddler girls on a sidewalk, according to the Daily News. The mother, Dalisha Adams, 26, was last seen cursing out her daughters, according to police and neighbors. She was charged with two counts of endangering a child.
Her two daughters, Diani, 3, and Dominae, 2, were out in the cold for hours wandering the street when someone noticed them. They were a mile and a half from where they live.
A neighbor said that she often heard the mother yelling "Shut the f--- up" to the children and threatening to "punch" one of them in the face.
This is a sad case all around. If the mother indeed did what is alleged, the children may be better off not being reunited with her.
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When Newt Gingrich says that housing project people don't work, our job is to show that they do. When he says that Obama is the "food stamp" president, our job is to show that most food stamp recipients are white. When Ron Paul writes that we're about to start rioting again, we are to make sure that everybody knows we're not.
In other words, although this isn't the lesson usually taken from these recent episodes, it would appear that we are getting more comfortable admitting that progress happens for us. Real progress, even if racism still exists, as it always will. And not just symbolic progress, such as having a black president. When we get angry at whites depicting us as poster children, we are saying that being black is less of a problem in 2012, even if it occasionally still is one.
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In December, when prosecutors announced that they would drop their pursuit of the death penalty for former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal, Christina Swarns, one of his attorneys, told The Root the next step would be to get him physically off of death row. "He's under 23 and one lockdown, meaning he spends 23 hours a day in his cell, by himself," she explained. "The next step is to get him out of extreme solitary-confinement conditions so for the first time in 23 years he can hug his family. His contact with his wife, his children, with us [his legal team] has been from behind glass."
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