Merdies Hayes
Editor-In-Chief at Our Weekly
Los Angeles native. Christian, journalist, bookworm, rock 'n roller, animal lover and all around sports fan.
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Dec 18, 2024 |
ourweekly.com | Merdies Hayes
Bella Ivory, a teacher at Beverly Hills High School, is alleging that her reports of racism on campus since 2022 have been ignored. She has since taken legal action. “When a school allows racism to flourish, children learn the wrong thing, and that breeds hatred,” said attorney Brad Gage, who has highlighted several incidents as evidence of an alleged toxic environment at the school.
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Dec 11, 2024 |
ourweekly.com | Merdies Hayes
The next time you’re motoring along Miracle Mile on Wilshire Boulevard, imagine what prehistoric finds are just under your vehicle. For five years, the Metro Purple Line expansion has been under construction–a portion of which is just outside the fence of the La Brea Tar Pits and paleontologists from near and far have flocked to the site to see what has literally been “unearthed.”Construction on the first phase of the Purple Line expansion began in 2014.
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Nov 21, 2024 |
ourweekly.com | Merdies Hayes
“It was a gut punch.” That was Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in January following his prostate cancer diagnosis. He said the news had not only affected him but also shocked many others “especially in the Black community.”Austin’s diagnosis–which was made public on Jan. 9 about a week after he had been hospitalized with complications from a previous surgery–has renewed public discussion around prostate cancer in the Black community.
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Nov 21, 2024 |
ourweekly.com | Jose Salazar |Merdies Hayes
The jail in Georgia’s largest county, Fulton County, leaves its inmates vulnerable to “substantial risk of serious harm from violence” and violates their constitutional and statutory rights, according to a new Justice Department report released on Nov. 14.
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Nov 20, 2024 |
ourweekly.com | Merdies Hayes
“It was a gut punch.” That was Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in January following his prostate cancer diagnosis. He said the news had not only affected him but also shocked many others “especially in the Black community.”Austin’s diagnosis–which was made public on Jan. 9 about a week after he had been hospitalized with complications from a previous surgery–has renewed public discussion around prostate cancer in the Black community.
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