Black News Across Black America

Black News Across Black America
Nov 4 2010

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

California
The Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor Team will conduct a series of community workshops to provide project updates, discuss input received from previous workshops and present new information on station alternatives, station area planning, streetscape, and landscape design concepts. The project is expected to have a significant impact on business, employment, and tax revenue in the region.

District of Columbia
A man who believed he was assisting members of Al-Qaeda in a plan to launch bombs at several Metrorail stations was arrested this week, according to the U.S. Justice Department. After Farooque Ahmed, 34, of Ashburn, Va., was taken into custody, officials alerted the public and metro system workers that they were never in danger, because they—which included the FBI—had been well aware of Ahmed’s activities prior to the time he began his attempt. They also said that Ahmed had been closely monitored up until the time of his arrest. If convicted, Ahmed faces a maximum penalty of 50 years in prison.

Georgia

The 10th annual Silent No More! Candlelight Vigil was held at the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, and was sponsored by Partners Against Domestic Violence (PADV). Many supporters against intimate partner violence attended, taking the opportunity to remember victims who were killed in 2009 and 2010. As each name was read, a candle was lit to represent a life lost. Mayor Kasim Reed honored PADV with the Phoenix Award for its work to end intimate partner violence and to empower its survivors. Atlanta City Council President Ceaser Mitchell presented the award.

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

California
The Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor Team will conduct a series of community workshops to provide project updates, discuss input received from previous workshops and present new information on station alternatives, station area planning, streetscape, and landscape design concepts. The project is expected to have a significant impact on business, employment, and tax revenue in the region.

District of Columbia

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New York City resident Jimmy McMillan stole the show
OW Staff
Nov 4 2010

Rent is Too Damn High political party

Disgruntled New York City resident Jimmy McMillan stole the show at a debate for the state’s gubernatorial candidates as he introduced himself and his self-created political “Rent is Too Damn High” party to the public. “The people I’m here to represent can’t even afford to pay their rent.”
 

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National Public Radio news analyst Juan Williams, fired
OW Staff
Oct 28 2010

Muslims make him “nervous”

National
Juan Williams, a longtime NPR news analyst, was fired two days after claiming that Muslims make him “nervous” and “worried” on planes, when asked if the country was facing a “Muslim dilemma” on Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor.”

NPR announced that same evening that they were ending Williams’ contract with the company.

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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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