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REPORT: Violent Flash Mobs Are Caused By Boredom, Lack of Resources
A recent study of the controversial, so-called ‘flash mob’ phenomenon suggests that flash mobs are largely triggered by boredom, a lack of resources, and a desire to “provoke older people and make havoc.” What do you think is the driving force behind violent flash mobs?
Philly Mayor Imposes Curfew to Stop Flash Mobs
Philly Mayor Imposes Curfew to Stop Flash Mobs Larry Miller, Philadelphia Tribune (via New America Media) | August 9, 2011 PHILADELPHIA — During an early afternoon press conference on the growing problem of mobs of African-American teens assaulting pedestrians, Mayor Michael Nutter announced further details of the city’s plan to crack down on the violence […]
Weekly News Round-Up: Aug 22nd – 28th, 2011
Aug 22nd – 28th Racist curfew instituted in Philadelphia Walter Smolarek, Liberation News, 8/20/11 Blacks and Latinos Will Suffer When the Student Debt Bubble Bursts David A. Love, Huffington Post, 8/24/11 Millenials still searching for racial equality, diversity Megan Bannister, Times-Delphic, 8/22/11 A tale of two schools: Who’s to blame for […]
Weekly News Round-Up: Aug 15th- August 21st, 2011
Aug 15th- 21st Northwestern principal maintains high achievement standards Shawn Cetrone, Herald Online, 8/14/11 It’s ‘Blackademic: young and black in academia Chetachi A. Egwu, The Grio, 8/14/11 These four also have a dream Janel Davis , The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, AJC A tepid response to race-based school bullying Milton W. Hinton Jr. […]
Chicago's About to Pull the Trigger on Blackness
I am watching the most beautiful “mile” in the world turn into a war zone where black bodies embody the spirit of the enemy. For those that don’t know, Chicago’s downtown area has been taken over by groups of violent teenagers looking to steal Ipads, for which the Chicago Police Department (CPD) has formally named […]
March 22, 2010 – March 28, 2010
A wiser view of flash mobs Karen Heller, Philadelphia Inquirer, March 28, 2010 Education, careers give hope over violence Post Tribune Staff Writer, Gary Post Tribune March 28, 2010 Violence is never justified Randy Simmonds, Vail Daily, March 28, 2010 House Passes $600 Million In Funding For Summer Youth Jobs Programs Seattle Medium Staff Writer, The Seattle Medium, March […]
Police torture victim Stanley Wrice freed after 30 years in prison
A man who spent 30 years in prison for a crime he did not commit is free. Stanley Wrice says Chicago police beat a confession of a 1982 rape out of him. According to Cook County prosecutors, Wrice is not only free, but will not be retried for the crime.