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10/14/2026

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10/10/2026

CONGRATULATIONS TO FERGUSON POLICE CHIEF TROY DOYLE! HALF A MILLION DOLLARS! 💰👏🏾

Ferguson Police Chief Troy Doyle is walking away with a settlement worth more than $500,000 after a years-long racial discrimination lawsuit against St. Louis County.

Doyle, who previously served as a lieutenant colonel with the St. Louis County Police Department, claimed he was passed over for the police chief position because of his race.

According to the lawsuit, Doyle believed he was in line for the position before the county selected Mary Barton instead.

Doyle eventually became police chief in Ferguson in 2023, but his legal battle with St. Louis County continued.

Now, after years of fighting, the county has agreed to settle the case for more than HALF A MILLION DOLLARS!

Congratulations to Chief Doyle! Sometimes standing up for yourself means taking the fight all the way to court.

And remember, this settlement is coming from ST. LOUIS COUNTY!

10/04/2026

Every time your phone tells you where you are, it is using a mathematical model of the shape of the Earth.

A Black woman from rural Virginia spent decades building that model by hand, and almost nobody knew her name until she was in her eighties.

Gladys West. She grew up in a sharecropping family in Dinwiddie County and understood early that the alternatives were the to***co fields or the factory. She finished top of her high school class, which came with a scholarship, and took it.

Her work was satellite geodesy: taking the raw data coming down from orbit and using it to compute, correction by correction, the true irregular shape of the Earth. Not a sphere. Not even a neat ellipsoid. A lumpy thing with gravitational highs and lows.

That model is the foundation the Global Positioning System sits on. You cannot locate a point on a surface until you know precisely what the surface is.

She did this for decades, largely unremarked, and retired in 1998.

She was recognised in 2018, when her sorority mentioned her biography at a function and someone realised what was in it.

The Air Force inducted her into its Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame. She earned a PhD in her seventies.