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Atlanta lawyer reported missing earlier this week found died in hospital

South Fulton Police Department revealed on Friday that the attorney who was reported missing earlier this week has died.

Demetrice Allen, 30, passed away at a local hospital after being injured in a car wreck, according to the department’s press release, CNN reports. 

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Allen was last seen on Dec. 6 after hanging out with friends at a bar in East Atlanta, the police said. His godmother, Daphne Handley reported him missing two days later.

“Our investigation determined that Mr. Allen was involved in a traffic accident in Clayton County before he was reported missing by loved ones,” according to the police statement. “Unfortunately, Mr. Allen succumbed from his injuries the next day at an area hospital. Mr. Allen’s next of kin has been notified.”

Allen was staying with his godmother in the Atlanta area while he was interviewing for jobs. He recently moved from Orlando, according to the site. 

Clayton County police also reported on Friday in a news release that Allen was involved in a multi-vehicle car wreck on Interstate 285 East on Dec.  7 and was reportedly the driver who was at fault. 

“Mr. Allen’s injuries were severe, but did not appear to be life-threatening,” the news release stated. “He was alert, conscious, and combative when he was transported to a local area hospital for treatment.” 

Allen’s friends said he was reportedly on his way to The Cookout Restaurant after leaving the bar that night, according to the New York Post. 

Police were not able to identify at the scene because of his condition after the accident.

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“Upon following up at the hospital, officers discovered Mr. Allen succumbed to his injuries and hospital staff subsequently contacted the Georgia Bureau of Investigations, who took custody of Mr. Allen’s body.”

Additional details surrounding the car wreck or Allen’s injuries have not been released.

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4 Things To Know About Kaiser Permanente’s New CEO Greg Adams

Healthcare veteran Gregory Adams stepped in to lead Kaiser Permanente as soon as the sudden death of Bernard Tyson was announced on Nov. 10. Adams’ interim position became official one month later when the nation’s largest integrated healthcare system’s board of directors cemented his role as CEO earlier this week.

It is one of few times in history that a major organization has appointed one black male CEO to succeed another. While Adams has inherited a financially healthy entity – Oakland, California-based Kaiser is an $80 billion nonprofit organization with more than 250,000 employees and physicians serving 12.2 million members – it is also a grieving institution. Tyson was a bright light who cast a long shadow, making this transition uniquely complex.

Stepping into the wake of an extraordinarily dynamic leader who was broadly respected and revered is no easy task. Here are four reasons why Adams, the sixth CEO in Kaiser’s almost 75-year history, should succeed.

• He already knows the ropes. Tyson was a lifer at Kaiser, having started there as a college intern. While Adams had an impressive decades long career in health care prior to joining Kaiser, he’s also logged 20 years moving up the Kaiser ranks. Starting in 1999 as a Los Angeles-based senior vice president, in the last 10 years, he rose swiftly through roles that prepared him well for this moment. In, 2013, the year Tyson was named chairman and CEO, Adams rose from Kaiser’s regional president for Northern California to executive vice president reporting directly to Tyson. Adams was named group president in 2016. There, he had direct responsibility for health plans and hospital operations in all eight Kaiser regions, impacting 12 million of its plan members.
• He began his career as a caregiver.. A native of rural Georgia, Adams graduated from Atlanta’s Ogelthorpe University with a degree in nursing and proceeded to work in the emergency department at nearby Crawford Long Hospital. It was there that he confronted the social determinants of healthcare and began to consider other ways that he might craft an even more impactful career in the industry. He went on to earn his master’s degree in nursing administration from Wichita State University. His clinical background, though brief, may give Adams an edge with Kaiser’s physicians and healthcare providers, who are a powerful force.
• Adams is up for the challenges. Kaiser has successfully negotiated new contracts with several of its unions in the past year, but testy labor relations disputes continue, including with the National Union of Healthcare Workers, which plans a weeklong strike beginning on Dec. 16 (a previous strike was postponed out of respect following Tyson’s death). If carried out, the strike could shut down services at 100 Kaiser clinics. That said, in a statement released following Adams’ appointment, the Alliance of Health Care Unions, a coalition of unions that represents 50,000 Kaiser employees, praised him as the “best choice to lead Kaiser Permanente seamlessly and boldly forward.” The group’s leader, Peter DeCicco, was quoted by The Sacramento Bee, lauding Adams’ vision, depth of knowledge and experience: “We are confident that with Greg’s record of commitment to labor management partnership, together we will continue to ensure that Kaiser Permanente is the best place to receive care and the best place to work, a community anchor for good, stable jobs and healthy neighborhoods.”
• Adams is committed to a seamless succession. During his seven years as CEO, Tyson oversaw major expansions in Kaiser’s membership, workforce, and revenue, but he became perhaps best known for his unflinching leadership on social justice issues ranging from racism, mental health and gun violence to homelessness, poverty and affordable housing. Under Tyson’s leadership, Kaiser committed $200 million to fight homelessness, which is rampant in the Bay area. At Tyson’s memorial service last month, Adams was moved to tears as he paid tribute to his late boss and friend. Even in that raw moment, Adams stated his full commitment to continuing the work Tyson was so passionate about. “It is truly an honor to be named Chairman and CEO of this amazing organization and follow Bernard,” Adams said in a statement. “Kaiser Pernamanente will continue to move forward together to deliver on our mission.”

 

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Back to Africa: New York politician experiences the ultimate homecoming during a life changing visit to Senegal

Much has been said throughout this year about “going back to Africa.” And as we mark the 400 years that have elapsed since the first enslaved Africans arrived on these shores in 1619, stripped of their freedom, their kinship, and their basic birthrights as human beings, many people of African descent have indeed made that pilgrimage back to the motherland. It’s a way to reinforce those ties that, though stretched to the point of breaking, have instead managed to hold fast, despite the trauma and sabotage that had threatened to sever them over the ensuing centuries.

I am one of those expatriates who was privileged to recently make the life-changing and affirming trek back to the home of my ancestors—Senegal, to be exact. And although this was not my first visit to the African continent, I am humbled and overjoyed to share that it was indeed the most insightful and significant one—especially since I have traced my roots back to originating in that very country.

From the moment my feet touched the Earth in Senegal, and throughout my travels during my all too brief stay there, the sense of welcoming and belonging that I felt was overwhelming. Rather than shrinking from the intensity of the sun, I reveled in its warmth, as it enveloped me in its loving embrace. The salt-tinged smell of the nearby ocean was pure aromatherapy for my soul, but it was the sights and sounds of the people—my people—that plays over and over in a virtual loop in my head now that I’ve returned to American shores.

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As the president of New York City’s borough of Brooklyn, which boasts the richest representation of the African diaspora in any major city in this country, and is home to nearly 900,000 African-Americans, I am no stranger to finding myself immersed in a sea of Black and brown faces. Those proud, beautiful, and expressive faces that greeted me, coupled with the joy-filled music that their voices rendered, are like none other that I’ve ever found elsewhere.

Typically, we gather together for a common cause. However, in Africa, particularly on the island of Gorée, home of the Door of No Return— the haunting portal through which scores of free Africans walked before being dispersed to lands far and wide as slaves— the feeling of connected oneness was more vibrant, more enriched, and more compelling than any I have felt beyond my Brooklyn borders.

The Door of No Return is a museum and memorial to the Atlantic slave trade on Gorée Island off the coast of Dakar, Senegal. (From Wikimedia Commons)

As I walked the roads of Malicounda in Dakar and traversed across the volcanic rock on Gorée Island, I was struck by the undeniable natural beauty. And yet, this majestic continent has continued, over the last four centuries, to feel the aftershocks of being unrelentingly stripped of her lucrative natural resources represented by her land and by her people, our people, for the world’s gain.

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While there, I witnessed dire needs, some of which were reminiscent of those faced by many of my constituents back in Brooklyn. Needs related to issues of health, education, quality of life, and overall freedom of access, which made the sister city agreements that were forged during my visit all the more appropriate and essential.

The differences I saw in our brethren there were far outweighed by our commonalities of cultural pride, boundless potential, and shared dreams and aspirations. I say the time is now for this symbiotic relationship to be nurtured and strengthened as never before, actualizing the transformation of the Door of No Return into the Door of Our Return.

 

Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams signs sister city agreement in Dakar. (photo provided by the office of Eric Adams.)

All of us, irrespective of our complexions or the country of our birth, owe much to Mother Africa, the undisputed cradle of civilization. During this milestone commemoration, as we reflect on the millions of lives lost, the atrocities that were endured, and the traumas that inflicted by slavery, it is important that we think of reparations that are due. Not to us as African Americans, but of those due to Africa and her people. We work to not move on, but to move forward in our shared history and our collective investment in our promising future, entrusted into the hands of present-day Africans and African-Americans, and those yet to come.

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As the beneficiaries of the rich and enduring legacy of culture and history that has been left to those of us who can call Africa “home,” we should and must stand ready and willing to partner with anyone who shares the same vision and commitment to paying it forward.

Undoubtedly, attempts to make restitution for what has been lost over the course of the past 400 years of fortitude is a very tall order. But with all worthwhile journeys, it will only commence by taking the first step that each of us individually is willing to make.

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Eric L. Adams is the borough president of Brooklyn, New York. He vows that this, his fifth visit to his continent of origin, will not be his last.

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