BISON ON THE MOVE Minnie Baylor-Henry, B.S.P. 1972, was added to YourEncore’s Strategic Advisory Board and its Regulatory Practice. YourEncore is a company that helps life sciences, consumer products and food companies solve complex product development and regulatory challenges. Gerard H. Breland, B.A. 1985, was appointed judge of the Superior Court by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Honorable Judge Gerard H. Breland previously served in the Family Court Division. Keith Perry, J.D. 1989, was appointed executive director of the National Bar Association. Brandi (Ferguson) Pitts, B.B.A. 1996, was selected as a 40 Under 40 honoree by Crain’s Chicago Business. As senior director of integrated marketing at Reynolds Consumer Products, she is credited with reinvigorating leading household brands Reynolds Wrap and Hefty with innovative digital marketing strategies. Before her time at Reynolds, Pitts was a partner at advertising firm Ogilvy & Mather and marketing director at Kraft Foods Group. Talitha L. LeFlouria, Ph.D. 2009, was elected to the Board of Directors for the Labor and Working-Class History Association and the Historians Against Slavery. Simone Missick, B.A. 2003, was cast to play “Missy Knight,” a fictional television character in Marvel’s Luke Cage series. Missick’s character is an ex-NYPD officer who developed superhuman strength after being given a bionic arm to replace the one she lost in the line of duty. Netflix has not announced a release date.
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Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, author, psychiatrist and former assistant professor of Pediatrics at Howard University College of Medicine, died January 2, 2016, in Washington, D.C.
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Dr. Welsing was born March 18, 1935 in Chicago, Ill. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Liberal Arts from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 1957, and her M.D. from Howard University in 1962. Her 1970 essay “The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism (White Supremacy)” became a catalyst for national and international debates about global race relations and systemic cultural and institutional disparities between whites and racial minorities in the United States and around the world. A respected educator, researcher, theorist, and medical practitioner in the Washington, D.C. area for more than 50 years, Dr. Welsing practiced child psychiatry and served mental health patients in private practice since 1967. For nearly two and a half decades, Dr. Welsing worked as a staff physician for the Department of Human Services and served as the clinical director of two schools for emotionally troubled children in Washington, D.C. Dr. Welsing was 80.
Mr. Charles F. Harris, Sr., a publishing executive, entrepreneur, and former director of Howard University Press, died December 16, 2015, in New York City. Mr. Harris, was born January 3, 1934 in Portsmouth, Va. He graduated from Virginia State College (now Virginia State University), with a Bachelor of Science degree in History, in 1955. Mr. Harris began his publishing career in 1956 when he joined Doubleday & Company. In 1965, as editor of Doubleday’s Publishing Division, Harris launched the Zenith Book Series— the first series to present African-American history for elementary school students. In 1971, Mr. Harris was recruited to create and manage the Howard University Press, where he served as the first Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Publishing Operations, supervising all book publishing until 1986. Harris also established the Howard University Press Publishing Institute for students interested in pursuing careers in publishing. Mr. Harris was 81.
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