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Across Black America
Oct 7 2010

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

California Inglewood police shot and killed an armed-robbery suspect 42-year-old Reginald Andre Linthicum after a chase ended in San Pedro, where he allegedly tried to carjack another driver. Linthicum, suspected of robbing a flower shop, a 7-11 and a Radio Shack store was near a San Pedro hospital parking lot after abandoning his car and attempting to carjack a motorist, said Inglewood Police Lt. B. Mylar. Police had not determined if the suspect was wielding a gun at the time of the shooting. Inglewood police began chasing him, after responding to the robbery at a flower store at Manchester Avenue and 11th Street, where shots were reportedly fired, and a man told officers he was wounded. While there, police got a report that a suspect fitting a similar description had robbed the Radio Shack at Manchester and Hillcrest Boulevard. Mylar said a suspect fitting the description was seen at La Cienega Boulevard and Manchester Avenue moments later and the pursuit began, traveling south on the 405 Freeway to the 110 Freeway and then on surface streets in San Pedro. The chase concluded at Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center, where the suspect abandoned his vehicle and made an effort to carjack another. Mylar said the officer-involved shooting occurred at that point. He said suspect was taken to Harbor UCLA Medical Center, where he died. District of Columbia Shootings that took place in the District following a funeral—leaving one person dead and another injured—could have been gang-related. Still, the investigation is ongoing and a motive has not been identified. Offering some insight into the chain of events, the police chief said there had been a funeral in the area for 21-year-old Ashley McRae, who was found shot to death Sept. 18 in Southeast Washington. The funeral concluded around 1:30 p.m. and people were gathering for the burial procession. As participants were lining up to leave, some youth at the funeral and who had walked a couple of blocks to get into their car were approached by suspects who opened fire.

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

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California NAACP backs review of U.S. criminal justice system
Juliana D. Norwood  |   OW Staff Writer
Sep 30 2010

Groups come together to support reform

The California NAACP State Conference and its affiliated branches recently participated with other NAACP chapters nationwide in press conferences lending support to an initiative pushing the bipartisan National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2010. If this new law, which was already passed in the House of Representatives, is passed in the Senate (and obtains the necessary funding), it will enact a review of America’s criminal justice system and present recommendations for reform.

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Across Black America
Sep 30 2010

Here’s a look at African American issues and people making headlines through-out the country. Alabama Birmingham Health Care and Dr. Edwin Moyo recently announced the opening of Moyo Ensley Health Center. Birmingham Health Care has served Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama for more than 25 years in health care. The center held an celebratory opening for the residents in the community, complete with free dental screenings, diabetes testing, and blood pressure checks. California Stray bullets hit a gas meter and the inside of an occupied apartment in south Sacramento County recently, said a spokesman for the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department. Nobody was hurt, but three children, and an adult were asleep in the apartment when the shooting occurred. The shooting occurred at an apartment complex in the 7400 block of Power Inn Road about 4 a.m. A resident of the apartment said she heard three shots from outside her apartment. One bullet went through her bathroom and bedroom doors. Another round hit a gas meter, causing a small leak that has been fixed. District of Columbia Alleging that Mayor Adrian Fenty’s administration wanted a “different kind of workforce” in place at the Child and Family Services Agency, nine of its former workers recently filed a class action lawsuit charging that their terminations were laced with race and age discrimination. There was a pattern of dismissing primarily Black employees, all over age 40. Prospects in line for the new, mostly paraprofessional, jobs now also had to have a bachelor’s degree, which he said discounted the experience of people who had already been doing the work. However, George Johnson, executive director of the AFSCME District 20 Council, described the reduction in force (RIF) as a hoax to disguise the CFSA and Fenty’s administration’s obsession with shifting the city workforce in a direction that increasingly marginalizes African-American workers. The lawsuit, filed on Sept. 13 in U. S. District Court, charges that when CFSA sent out 91 RIF letters dated May 6, all but two were addressed to African Americans, although they had performed their duties satisfactorily. It further states CFSA misread federal guidelines regarding the requirement of college degrees for certain jobs – and that paraprofessionals, in this instance, are not held to such restrictions.

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

Alabama
Birmingham Health Care and Dr. Edwin Moyo recently announced the opening of Moyo Ensley Health Center. Birmingham Health Care has served Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama for more than 25 years in health care. The center held an celebratory opening for the residents in the community, complete with free dental screenings, diabetes testing, and blood pressure checks.

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Young Afro Latinos straddle both cultures
Manny Otiko   |   OW Contributor
Sep 23 2010

Hispanic heritage month celebrated Sept. 15-Oct. 15

When 2nd Lt. Emily Perez was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq, she became the first female African American officer to die in combat. Perez, an outstanding West Point graduate, was mourned by two communities because, while she looked like a Black woman, she came from a Black-Latino family.

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Across Black America
Sep 23 2010

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

National
The NAACP and Starbucks have partnered to launch the One Nation Spoken Word Showcase Tour, a youth empowerment tour that will travel to Chicago, New York City, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Houston and Washington DC. In each city, the tour will bring a number of activities for young people to get involved, including empowerment seminars at local high schools and colleges, with a focus on positive self development and human rights using a fusion of poetry, the spoken word, theater, hip hop music and culture; youth-led community service projects; and a spoken word showcase featuring local youth talent. In most cities, the spoken word showcase will be held in a local Starbucks store, underscoring the NAACP and Starbucks’ commitment to the community.

U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan recently awarded $7.4 million to 10 historically black colleges and universities to help revitalize neighborhoods, promote affordable housing and stimulate economic development in their communities. The funding is provided through HUD’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Program. Donovan made the announcement to the Congressional Black Caucus’ Annual Legislative Conference in Washington.

A new effort led by the National College Access Network (NCAN) and the USC Rossier School of Education’s Center for Urban Education (CUE) will try to align college access programs with student achievement goals at two Boston high schools. The objective for the Kresge Foundation-funded initiative is to expand the pool of college eligible high school students of color by improving the quality of college access programs and integrating these efforts with the schools’ academic goals. Program administrators are often unaware of the students they serve and whether the services are helping students improve their grades and fulfill the course requirements for college admission. Only 35 percent of Boston Public Schools’ college-bound graduates from the class of 2000 had actually earned degrees by 2007. Tia Brown McNair, assistant director for NCAN, the grant recipient, says the funding will provide her advocacy organization with the resources to increase the effectiveness of college access programs.

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

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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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