Police chose to inform Georgia mother Anna Lamb-Creasey of her son’s death via Facebook. The message wasn’t even from an official police Facebook account. Due to the confusion, it took 20 days for her to learn the truth about her son’s whereabouts. Horrible.
Mamie Till Mobley Memorial Foundation has requested that Lil Wayne remove Emmett Till’s name from his verse on Future’s “Karate Chop.” Gordon-Taylor calls Wayne’s use of Till’s name “disappointing, dishonorable, and outright disrespectful to our family.”
Embattled former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has reportedly signed a plea deal that will involve “significant jail time.” A source has told the Chicago Sun-Times that jail time would definitely be a part of any plea deal, and that his wife Sandi is the subject of a probe of her own.
Zora Ball, a 7-year-old Philadelphia girl, has become the youngest person to create a mobile video game! Fantastic, Zora! Look for big things from this girl in the future!
In an op-ed published in the Chicago Sun-Times, Rev. Jesse Jackson urges President Obama to come home to Chicago and address the city’s gun violence crisis.
The grandson of Malcolm X has been arrested by FBI agents. Malcolm Shabazz was apprehended when attempting to board a flight to Iran. There is no word on why he was arrested.
At a march in honor of Hadiya Pendleton, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and other civic leaders, implored President Obama to use his voice and influence to lead a national conversation on the crisis of gun violence in his hometown.
A controversial ad urging black youth in Boston to pull up their sagging pants is raising eyebrows. Penalties apparently include a $300 fine and up to three years in prison! Is it fair to incarcerate a young person over sagging pants? Is that how we look out for our youth?
New Mexico State Rep. Catherynn Brown has introduced a bill that would make it illegal for women to terminate a pregnancy that resulted from rape; on the grounds of “tampering with evidence.”
17 year-old Tyrone Lawson was shot and killed after a brawl broke out at the end of a HS basketball game at Chicago State University. Another tragic incidence of gun violence, ironically taking place on the heels of the White House’s gun violence initiative.How do we stop the violence?
Parents of some white students say the material – which deals with the idea of ‘White Privilege’ – sends the message that minorities are oppressed by white people. So of course they want the course banned.
President Barack Obama is once again Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, for ‘finding and forging a new majority, for turning weakness into opportunity and for seeking, amid great adversity, to create a more perfect union…’ Do you agree?
