Daily News Feed 3.18.2010/Vocab: cozen

Taylor leaves Essence after 30 years
Today, ESSENCE announces the retirement of its esteemed Beauty & Cover Director, Mikki Taylor. Taylor, who celebrated her 30-year anniversary with ESSENCE on February 5, has distinguished herself as a trailblazer within media circles, and is renowned for her contributions as an editor and brand ambassador influencing industries from fashion and beauty to Hollywood. As of March 31, Taylor will contribute to ESSENCE as Editor-at-Large and work closely with ESSENCE Creative Director Greg Monfries on cover concepts and photo sessions, as well as marketing events and special celebrity projects with Essence Communications, Inc. In addition, she will focus on expanding her existing entrepreneurial ventures. Mikki Taylor Enterprises, LLC, will serve as a holding company for a number of vertical businesses, including Satin Doll Productions, a full-service image building and consulting division, and MT Communications, a strategic communications and branding corporation. Taylor will also bring her expertise to the broader field of media entertainment in this new capacity as well. (Continue Reading…)

Wal-Mart ‘appalled’ at announcement telling Blacks to leave
New Jersey authorities are investigating an announcement made over a public address system at a southern New Jersey Wal-Mart telling “all blacks” to leave the store. Shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday, an unidentified male accessed the public address system at the Turnersville, New Jersey, Wal-Mart Supercenter Store, Gloucester County prosecutors said. “All blacks need to leave the store,” the voice announced. Store management contacted the Washington Township Police Department, which opened an investigation in conjunction with the county prosecutor’s office, Deputy Police Chief John Dalesandro said. (Continue Reading…)

Haiti ‘orphans’ taken by missionaries reunite with families
Tears stream down 12-year-old Daphnis Adrien’s face on the day he is supposed to be reunited with his family after six weeks of separation. His mother walks up to him, but he won’t hug her. Instead he clings to the woman who has been caring for him for more than a month and cries. “I am leaving my mother,” he says in a whisper, referring to his caretaker from SOS Children’s village. Daphnis knows his biological mother gave him away after the earthquake. He is one of the 33 Haitian children that the government placed in the SOS Children’s Village after they were taken to the Dominican border by American Baptist Missionaries, who said they were trying to help the orphans in the aftermath of Haiti’s earthquake. (Continue Reading…)