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Chicago museum fires all of it's mostly White female, financially well-off docents for lack of diversity
Emma Colton
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The Art Institute of Chicago fired all of its trained volunteers and guides last month, who were mostly older White women, to diversify its team.
"We
were surprised, we were disappointed," Gigi Vaffis, president of the
docent council, said in an interview with radio station WBEZ of the
firings. "There is an army of very highly skilled docents that are
willing and ready and able to continue with arts education."
The
Art Institute used to have more than 100 docents, 82 of whom were
active, until an executive director of learning and engagement, Veronica
Stein, sent an email on Sept. 3 firing them all, the Wall Street Journal reported. Docents are trained volunteers who lead tours of museums, and at the Art Institute, they averaged 15 years of unpaid service.
back up to restore default view.
The
firings were apparently sparked by the fact that most of the docent
staff was composed of older White, financially well-off women, the
outlet reported. Stein said that the museum needed to take a new path
"in a way that allows community members of all income levels to
participate, responds to issues of class and income equity, and does not
require financial flexibility."
The fired docents were offered a two-year free pass to the museum as gratitude for their previous service.
The
institute is one of America’s oldest and largest museums, with its
docent program launching in 1961 as part of an initiative of the Woman’s
Board and the Junior League of Chicago.
The docents sent a
letter on Sept. 13 detailing the staff "engaged in eighteen months of
twice-a-week training to qualify as a docent, five years of continual
research and writing to meet the criteria of 13 museum content areas,
and monthly and bi-weekly trainings to further educate ourselves with
the materials, processes and cultural context" of the museum’s pieces.
"It
was nearly a full-time job," Dietrich Klevorn, a docent since 2012,
told the Wall Street Journal. "We had to spend a lot of time physically
in the museum studying works of art, researching, putting tours
together."
"We had to be very comprehensive about everything as
we talked with them, moving through the space," she said. Klevorn was
the only docent to speak on the record to WSJ, after the museum
reportedly requested they not speak to the media. The institute told Fox
News later Sunday that "the museum did not ask the docents not to speak
to media," but that the docent council decided to decline further
comment to the press.
The Chicago Tribune’s Editorial Board even hit back at the museum’s decision, calling Stein’s termination letter to the docents as "weaselly."
"Why
not invest some time in recruiting new, diverse docents? Why not grow
the corps in such a way that it’s refreshed? Why not help docents who
need help with expenses or child care? Why not have a hybrid model, at
least until the current docents exit?" the board wrote in its Sept. 27
opinion piece.
"Instead
of trashing volunteerism as inherently elitist, why not avow and attest
to its ongoing value as a vital part of necessary diversification and
cultural change?"
Robert Levy, chairman of the Art Institute,
defended the decision to fire the docents days later in his own op-ed,
and said that the plan to do so had been in the works for 12 years.
"Critical
self-reflection and participatory, recuperative action is required if
we are to remain relevant to the changing audiences seeking connection
to art," he wrote.
Klevorn,
who is Black, conceded to WSJ that the docent staff was "not a
demographically representative population." Vaffis, however, noted that
the staff was a diverse group socioeconomically, and included a fireman
and condo manager among the group.
"Still, the Art Institute
hasn’t explained why they had to be jettisoned en masse and not
diversified over time. The museum appears to be in the grips of a
self-defeating overcorrection. It has adopted the language of diversity,
inclusion and equity so completely that it was willing to fire the same
upper-middle class volunteers it relies on for charitable donations,"
WSJ noted.
The Art Institute told Fox News in comment on Sunday that they "have not fired anyone."
"We
thought we were being very clear when outlining our plan, but somehow
this has been twisted into unfounded accusations of reverse racism
resulting in lewd threats against our staff. We’re simply pausing a
volunteer educator program and would never want to diminish the
contributions they have made. This should not be the roots of a culture
war," a spokesperson for the institute said.
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According to the VAERS tracking website, in the United States, 4,144 Americans have died following the Moderna COVID vaccination. 11,346 have died due to the Pfizer vaccination.
On Monday the FDA delayed approval for the Moderna vaccine for children.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Friday it would delay
its decision on administration of the Moderna vaccine to adolescents,
citing concerns the shot may lead to a heightened risk of a rare heart
condition.
The FDA has not yet determined if the risk is higher for adolescents,
but the agency is planning to review the data further before extending
the vaccine’s eligibility, according to the Wall Street Journal.
“I think people can be reassured that the risk of myocarditis with an
mRNA vaccine is low, it appears to be balanced between the different
products,” Paul Burton, Moderna’s chief medical officer, told the
outlet.
Jamie Lee Curtis has implied that the new “Halloween Kills” film
that opens this Friday is about the January 6th protest at the Capitol.
However, Curtis is full of crap because the movie was filmed from September to November 2019.
Curtis has been an outspoken anti-Trump fanatic for quite some time.
Mr. Trump. You are an embarrassment to this great country. A country made up of immigrants and dreamers and patriots. The only “shithole” is you.
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Speaking to horror filmmaker Eli Roth for his “History of Horror” podcast, Curtis said that the 2018 Halloween movie was about the #MeToo movement and the one opening on Friday was about Trump supporters.
“[When] we were launching the 2018 movie, it was right in the center
of the MeToo movement,” Curtis said. “And so women taking power and
speaking truth to power and voicing their experiences as trauma victims
was echoing all over the world when we released that movie — a movie
about a woman taking power from her trauma against her oppressor.”
“The second movie is about mob violence,” Curtis said. “We have just
in America watched a mob descend on January 6 with nooses and stun guns
and members of Congress in the building. And we all watched it on TV.”
Breitbart reports
that “Curtis described the new movie as the story of a ‘mob descending
together,’ comprised of people who are going ‘to take matters into their
own hands.'”
Four Trump supporters died at the Jan. 6 protests – at least two were killed by police.
Gen.
Colin Powell, the influential former secretary of state and chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff who played a pivotal policy role during the
administration of then-President George W. Bush, died Monday at 84 from
complications related to COVID-19, his family announced."We
have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a
great American," his family said in a statement, adding that he was
fully vaccinated.
The statement continued, "We want to thank the medical staff at Walter Reed National Medical Center for their caring treatment."
Gen. Colin Powell, seen here in New York City in 2017, died from COVID-19 complications, his family announced.
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Powell,
the first African-American secretary of state, served in Bush's Cabinet
from 2001-2005, including during the tumultuous years following the
Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
This is a developing story; check back for updates.
Ex- joint chiefs of staff Powell dies of COVID complications -Facebook post
Colin Powell speaks at the funeral for the late U.S. Army Four Star General Schwarzkopf at West Point
WASHINGTON
(Reuters) - General Colin Powell, a former U.S. secretary of state and
Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, 84, died of complications from COVID-19
on Monday, according to his Facebook page. He was 84.
"Senseless violence has to stop": Detroit Police chief James White details arrest of suspect in murder of panhandler
Detroit
Police Chief James White said Denez Dupree was a panhandler who was
well-liked in the area but was randomly targeted and executed by a
suspect earlier this month.
DETROIT (FOX 2) - On Friday, the Detroit Police Department gave more details regarding the arrest of a suspect in the execution of a panhandler outside of a gas station earlier this month.
Detroit
Police Chief James White called the Friday afternoon press conference
to discuss the shooting death of Denez Dupree, who was shot to death
outside of a Clark gas station at Dexter and Collingwood on Oct. 3.
Calling
the case ‘very tragic’, White said the man was a victim of senseless
violence and the shooting was unprovoked and credited police and the
community for coming together to arrest the suspect.
"Everything
in this case worked together to the desired outcome to get this violent
perpetrator, violent offender off of the streets," White said.
19-year-old charged in unprovoked murder of Detroit panhandler
A
19-year-old, with no criminal record, has been charged with the
seemingly random and unprovoked murder of a panhandler at a Detroit gas
station last week.
White said Dupree was known to have emotional issues and was known well in the area.
"This senseless violence in our city has to stop. We all have to be tired of it at this point," White said.
The
chief credited Malik Shabazz and councilwoman Mary Sheffield for
mobilizing the community that eventually led to the arrest.
White
said the police investigation, community efforts, and confidence in
each other led to the arrest of Williams but did not expand if there was
a certain piece of evidence that led a tipster to come forward with
information.
The peace walk organized by Shabazz was credited
as leading to police to enough evidence to identify the suspect as
Williams, who was arrested Thursday.
According to the judge in
the case, evidence showed someone who knew Williams turned him in and
Project Green Light video showed the Dupree had been shot in the right
eye.
Friday morning, Williams was charged with first-degree murder and felony murder. He has not yet been arraigned.
Christopher
Calvin Williams, 19, has been charged with killing a panhandler at a
Detroit gas station in what police have called a senseless murder.
According to police, the suspect talked to Dupree and even gave him money before killing him.
White said the shooting was completely unprovoked and there was no conflict or argument between Dupree and Williams.
"This violence is totally out of control and is completely senseless," White said.
Dupree
was known to frequent the gas station and would sometimes fill up
customers' vehicles for change. According to White, people in the area,
including the gas station employees, embraced Dupree and he did not
cause any problems.
Detroit police described the shooting as "random execution."
Panhandler shot and killed execution-style outside Detroit gas station
Right
on surveillance video, too graphic for TV, a panhandler was shot and
killed execution-style in front of a Citgo gas station on Detroit’s east
side.
Subway worker Jumanne Way posted a series of videos on social media
where he films himself walking through food, drinking from Gatorade
bottles and arranging meat and tomatoes on the restaurant’s toilet.
Jammane posted the video on his Twitter page that is still active.
Jamanne also has video from the Subway store from back in 2019. He’s been working there awhile now.
A series of horrifying videos posted to social media show a Subway
worker in Providence, Rhode Island, walking through food on the counter
before throwing it on the floor, decorating the bathroom with sandwich
ingredients and drinking out of bottles before putting them back.
Jumanne, who goes by Jumanne Way – a play on the fast-food restaurant
Subway – on YouTube, posted a series of stomach-churning videos showing
him vandalizing the restaurant.
In a video he uploaded just yesterday, the employee showed silver tubs of ingredients laid out on the floor.
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Jumanne filmed himself tossing trays of bread on the floor.
Jumanne also tweeted out video of himself throwing rows of merchandise on the floor at a local store and stealing from stores.
