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Milton Bradley scheduled to be arraigned later this month
City News Service
Jan 11 2013

13 misdemeanor charges for allegedly attacking his estranged wife

VAN NUYS, Calif.—Former Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Milton Bradley was scheduled to be arraigned later this month on 13 misdemeanor charges for allegedly attacking his estranged wife on five occasions between 2011 and 2012.

Bradley, 34, was charged Thursday by the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office with four counts each of spousal battery and criminal threats, two counts each of assault with a deadly weapon and vandalism and one count of dissuading a witness.

His arraignment is scheduled for Jan. 24 at the Van Nuys Courthouse.

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Across Black America
Jan 10 2013

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.

California
According to US Weekly, 33-year-old singer Brandy is engaged to groom-to-be Ryan Press, a music exec she’s been dating for about a year. A family friend said the two are “thrilled and happy.” The couple went public with their romance last year about this time, and just four month later in March Brandy openly expressed her desire to get married in an interview with People magazine. Brandy, who has a 10-year-old daughter Sy’rai, has never been married before.


Florida
In 2001, the Healthy Start Coalition of Miami-Dade created a leading community-based prenatal care agency for mothers and babies to ensure that babies grow up healthy. Since its inception, Healthy Start has remained committed to this cause. Today, the agency takes great pride in serving more than 24,000 pregnant women, 30,000 infants and 3,000 women between pregnancies to give families a healthy start from the very start. To further ensure that its mission is carried out effectively, the agency has developed a one-of-a-kind publication, entitled the Family Resource Directory—a guide for all things healthy. The Family Resource Directory is a free publication that will also include a comprehensive listing of birthing hospitals and pediatricians, plus information on breast-feeding, vaccination, and more. More than 10,000 copies of the directories will be printed and available in spring 2013.

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
 

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Debate heats up over screening athletes for sickle cell trait
Health Day and National Institutes of Health
Jan 10 2013

NCAA mandates such a test, but medical group urges a different option

Although heart problems or heatstroke generally are to blame for a young athlete’s sudden death, experts now know that carrying an aberration called the sickle cell trait also poses substantial risk.

That has led to mandatory screening for anyone hoping to participate in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I athletics. Not everyone, however, thinks that’s a good idea.

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Noted Harlem funeral director, George Benta, succumbs
OW Staff
Jan 10 2013

Supervised services of many Black elite

George Bernard Benta, who as executive director of Benta’s Funeral Home in Harlem personally supervised the funerals of such notables as Langston Hughes, Hall Johnson, James Baldwin, Sandy Sadler, Etta Jones, Coleman Hawkins, Paul Roberson, Alvin Ailey, Pearl Primus, John Henrik Clarke, Matthew Henson, among others, has died. He was 91.

Funeral services were being held today, Jan. 10, at 11 a.m. at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, 204 W. 134th St., New York.

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Meteorologist fired after replying to viewers’ questions
Juliana D. Norwood  |   OW Staff Writer
Jan 10 2013

TV station says Rhonda Lee violated company procedure

A Louisiana TV station has defended its decision to fire a Black meteorologist, Rhonda Lee, insisting that she repeatedly violated company policy by responding to comments on its Facebook page.

Lee first spoke out on the Facebook page of KTBS-TV in October when a viewer wrote: “the Black lady that does the news is a very nice lady. The only thing is she needs to wear a wig or grow some more hair, I’m not sure if she is a cancer patient,” he continued, “but still it’s not something myself that I think looks good on TV.”

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Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
 

Alabama
Freeman A. Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will address the annual African American Business Council luncheon on June 28. Hrabowski, who is chairman of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Education Excellence for African Americans, has a national reputation for his work studying the performance of minority students in math and science. Hrabowski, named one of the 10 best college presidents in the country by Time magazine, was a child leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham in the 1960s.
 

Arkansas
The Liberty Counsel filed a motion and a brief in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas seeking to intervene on behalf of a Concepts of Life crisis pregnancy center to defend against a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights. The groups seek to impose a permanent injunction before the Human Heartbeat Protection Act goes into effect July 18. Liberty Counsel also filed a brief opposing the ACLU’s request for an injunction. The “Heartbeat” bill states that when a woman seeks an abortion at or after the 12th week, doctors must test for a fetal heartbeat before an abortion is performed and inform the pregnant mother that the child in her womb has a heartbeat. If a heartbeat is detected, a woman cannot have an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, and if a mother’s life is in danger. “As we promised when the legislation was introduced, Liberty Counsel will defend this law without reservation for the people of Arkansas, born and pre-born,” said Matt Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “No right is more foundational than the right to life. Without life, all other rights are irrelevant,” concluded Staver.

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