Monday, September 28, 2009 |
Derrion Albert, a 16-year-old honors student at Fenger High School in Chicago, was beaten to death during a fight between two gangs that broke out on the street as he walked home from school last Thursday, and it was caught on tape.
Silvonus Shannon, 19, Eugene Riley, 18, and Eric Carson, 16, have been charged as adults of first-degree murder and were held without bail on Monday afternoon.
Albert was beaten to death with long planks of wood and when he fell to the ground, he was stomped in the head. Prosecutors say Albert was “merely a bystander” as two groups of students from different neighborhoods fought.
Mary Washington, who lives in the neighborhood, said it has long been plagued by gang violence. “They’re killing our children, our hope for the future. When will it stop?”
Police said that an amateur video helped detectives identify the participants in the melee outside the Agape Community Center. The video shows dozens of people punching, kicking and swinging wooden planks in a melee next to the community center and the adjacent street. At one point, four or five males — including one wielding a two-by-four — can be seen beating and stomping another person, believed to be Albert, who had fallen to the ground.
WE HAVE REMOVED THE VIDEO FROM CL.
Monday, September 28, 2009 |
Actor and AIDS advocate Blair Underwood receives a picture of a D.C. intersection that completes his name during the grand opening of the first AIDS treatment center in Washington, D.C. by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF).
The Blair Underwood Clinic will be run by AHF, which came to D.C. because of its status as the “epicenter” of the disease. The city’s infection rate of 3 percent is the nation’s worst.
EBONY IS FOR SALE
Johnson Publishing Company, the world’s largest African-American owned and operated publishing company, is seeking a buyer or investor for its flagship publication, Ebony, in an effort to secure the survival of the nation’s oldest African-American lifestyle magazine.
Johnson Publishing’s chairman, CEO and daughter of founder John H. Johnson, Linda Johnson Rice, has approached Time Inc., Viacom, and other private investors that include buyout firms.
Time Inc., the world’s largest periodical publisher, already owns Essence, while Viacom owns BET (Black Entertainment Television). No word on whether Jet would be included in the sale.
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Sunday, September 27, 2009 |
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama arrive at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Phoenix Awards Dinner at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. on Saturday.
The President spoke about his plan for health care reform at the event, noting that the country has been waiting for it since the days of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Harry Truman.
( Photos: Getty Images )
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Friday, September 25, 2009 |
Florida A&M University law professor Dr. Jeremy Levitt confronted Bill O’Reilly Thursday night over Fox News’ role in agitating racial tensions regarding President Barack Obama.
Dr. Levitt cited Glenn Beck and the network’s role in encouraging the 9/12 protests, which featured an assortment of racist signs, stating that “Fox News and the far right have a race deck, and they play the ace of spades every day.”
Thursday, September 24, 2009 |
Early Sunday, September 15, 1963, Bobby Frank Cherry, Thomas Blanton, Herman Frank Cash, and Robert “Dynamite Bob” Chambliss, members of United Klans of America, a Ku Klux Klan group (an organization created to protect the rights and interests of white Americans by means of violence and intimidation), planted 122 sticks of dynamite outside the basement of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
At about 10:22 a.m., the bomb exploded. Four little girls (pictured above L-R), Cynthia Wesley (aged 14), Carole Robertson (aged 14), Addie Mae Collins (aged 14) and Denise McNair (aged 11), were killed in the blast. Twenty-two others were injured. It was a crime that shocked the nation — and a defining moment in the history of America’s Civil Rights Movement.
Outrage at the bombing and the grief that followed resulted in violence across Birmingham, and two black boys were killed later that day. Sixteen-year-old Johnny Robinson was shot by police after throwing rocks at cars with white people inside, and two white teenage boys shot 13-year-old Virgil Wade, who was on a bike with his brother.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the eulogy for three of the girls (a separate service was held for Carole Robertson):
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Thursday, September 24, 2009 |
Some guys are born gentlemen, but some have to learn how to become one. If you or someone you know is part of the latter, I highly suggest you get a copy of Bereolaesque: The Contemporary Gentleman & Etiquette Book for the Urban Sophisticate, a quick and entertaining read by 27-year-old style and etiquette impresario Enitan O. Bereola II.
The modern masterpiece is exactly what I’d recommend for those who want to have and learn about etiquette and style. The book is for everyone who believes that chivalry is NOT dead, those guys who understand how the world works and are willing to learn exactly how far something as simple as proper etiquette can get you in life.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009 |
President Barack Obama delivered his first address to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday in New York.
In his speech, the President bluntly stated that fixing everything wrong within the global community is not “solely America’s endeavor”: “Those who used to chastise America for acting alone in the world cannot now stand by and wait for America to solve the world’s problems alone.”
The President added that the United States is ready to create a new chapter of international cooperation so that all nations can join us to build “the future that our people so richly deserve”.
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