Black News

Sep 13 2012

Crowd gathers as money is flung from car windows

A group of people who allegedly robbed a Bank of America in Santa Clarita led sheriff’s deputies on a wild chase Wednesday that sparked a circus-like atmosphere in South Los Angeles, where the suspects tossed money out of their SUV, prompting residents to run into streets and crowd around deputies as the suspects were arrested.

Sep 13 2012

Involuntary manslaughter conviction will stand

The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to hear the case against a former Bay Area transit officer who was convicted in Los Angeles of involuntary manslaughter for fatally shooting an unarmed man during a confrontation at an Oakland train station.

The state’s highest court denied a defense petition seeking its review of the case against Johannes Mehserle, who was convicted of the New Year’s Day 2009 shooting death of 22-year-old Oscar Grant at the BART station in Fruitvale.

Juliana D. Norwood  |   OW Staff Writer
Sep 13 2012

Family asks for community’s help

Los Angeles police are still searching for whoever killed a 50-year-old Crenshaw district businessman outside of his credit repair firm and family, and friends gathered this week to ask for the public’s help in apprehending the killer.

Donald Wiley was fatally shot near his company, Perfect Credit Plus, located at Crenshaw Boulevard and 76th Street about 3 p.m. Saturday, according to police and a coroner’s spokesman.

Sep 13 2012

Four ‘critical incidents’ prompt action by LAPD leaders

Nearly 50 community residents turned out Monday for a special meeting of the Community Police Advisory Board to hear officials with the Southwest Division of the Los Angeles Police Department talk about the agency’s use-of-force policy.

This was more than the normal audience that shows up for the CPAB meetings, according to organizers, and it happened in the wake of four “critical incidents,” as the LAPD is calling them, that involved use of force, including the in-custody death of Alesia Thomas in July.

Sep 13 2012

Thoughts and observances from OurWeekly CEO & Publisher Natalie Cole

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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.