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Black man killed in a chokehold by NYPD officer
Esaw Garner, the wife of NYPD fatal choking victim, collapses in the arms of Rev. Al Sharpton (r) and Rev. Herbert Daughtry (l) at NAN headquarters in New York. (Photo by Herb Boyd) By Herb Boyd Special to NNPA NEW YORK, N.Y. – Rev. Al Sharpton was in the middle of his speech recounting how Eric Garner, 43, had been killed in a
chokehold by NYPD officer when Garner’s wife collapsed by his side on the stage of the National Action Network (NAN) in Harlem on Saturday morning. “They will try to scandalize the deceased,” Sharpton said of
the NYPD and what he anticipated they would say. “The issue is not about an unarmed man selling cigarettes…It’s about a man who was subjected to a chokehold and is no longer with us.”
Community shocked as a white man slaps 79-year-old judge and spits on her
JUDGE HUBBARD Chicago is a city that is known for serious racial segregation. There are times when this has also led to racial tension, and this might be one of those
times. A business owner on the north side of the city has been arrested for slapping a 79-yearold Cook County judge and spitting in her face. The man also allegedly called the woman “Rosa Parks” after getting angry over the judge smoking a cigarette near him. According to the Chicago Tribune, friends and colleagues were stunned to hear what happened to Judge Arnette Hubbard, who was the first female president of The National Bar Association and Cook County Bar Association. She is a respected and celebrated figure in the community and observers are stunned to hear what happened.
“She’s an icon in our community,” said Delores Robinson, past president of the Cook County Bar Association. Hubbard has held posts as an international observer of elections in Haiti and South Africa. Prosecutors say that David C. Nicosia, a 55-year-old man, is being charged with a series of crimes related to the assault. The man allegedly argued with the judge and got near her. He then said, “Rosa Parks move,” and spit in her face. After that, the judge followed the man and yelled for assistance, and that’s when he allegedly turned and slapped her in the face with an open hand.
At that point, Esaw Garner collapsed and had to be held up by Sharpton and Rev. Herbert Daughtry, another prominent activist. After she was led from the stage and to a back room, Sharpton continued his speech. “You can never predict how someone will react to grief,” he said. All of Garner’s relatives were in pain and weeping as they left the stage, including his mother, Gwen Carr, his sister Elisha Flagg, and his daughter, Emerald Garner. Sharpton promised the family that the NAN would pay for the funeral next week of a man the family knew as “Big E” or more affectionately the “Bear” by his wife. None of these appellations were effective in stopping the officers who sought to detain him in front of a hardware store in Staten Island last Thursday. It didn’t matter to the officers who surrounded him that he was the father of six children and was known as the “Gentle Giant.” Or, the fact that he repeatedly told them: “I can’t breathe.” (Cont'd on Page 5)
Shake vigorously then take! Then the earth shook and quaked; And the foundations of the mountains were trembling. And were shaken, because He was angry. Psalm 18:7 (NASB) By Bobby R. Henry, Sr. While taking in my morning walk and meditating, a song was playing from Pandora’s music box that created in me a harmonic stride. While engaged I heard a verse that said; “Shake, then take.” The song went on to explain the association between how we experience difficult times for God’s purpose and preparation for a rejoicing. The lyrics pointed out to the need for shaking up liquid medicines before we consumed them so that they may work properly. This analogy of shaking up the meds before consumption was a metaphor for how God sometimes disrupts things in our lives to make us uncomfortable when we have become too at ease with things that will lead us to a no good end. When you take into account the happenings of your lives, I’m sure somewhere you have been shaken and moved to a point of absolute disbelief and total confusion; if you haven’t then pray that you don’t. Mortified, once shaken would make it extremely easy for one to become disconcerted and withdrawn. Not understanding and overlooking the plausibility of the need to be stirred up can equate to a violent eruption of uncontrollable emotions and a state of mystification and loneliness. (Cont'd on Page 5)
March against violence ends with candidate’s forum
Members of CAP (Call A Pastor) Program. By Derek Joy Much of the neighborhood was still asleep when the march began at Miami Northwestern
High School last Saturday morning. Rev. Billy Strange, pastor of Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church, was joined with the
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Alice Coachman Davis, first Black Should the Florida Democratic Party support Olympic gold medalist, dies University at the age of 16. Thaddeus Hamilton for Florida Commissioner Davis won a gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games in London, in the high of Agriculture and Consumer Services? jump, setting a record of 5-feetBy Roger Caldwell
LTC Thaddeus Hamilton, Congressman Alcee Hastings and Mitch Ceasar.
Pleading Our Own Cause
LTC Thaddeus Hamilton is an African American that has qualified to be on the Nov. 4, 2014 ballot, as Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services. This is an extremely powerful position in the state cabinet, but the majority of the 18.5 million Florida residents don’t know it exists. It impacts every aspect of our life in the state, but the Democratic leadership in the state is not concerned with supporting the most qualified person for the job. Mr. Hamilton is a Democrat, who graduated from college with a degree in Agriculture, and has spent the last 40 years of his life in agriculture and the environment. (Cont'd on Page 3)
DAVIS (Photo credit WALB Albany) By WALB Albany Alice Coachman Davis, the first African American to win an Olympic gold medal, died Monday at the age of 90. She was born in Albany, GA on Nov. 9, 1923 as Alice Coachman. She attended Tuskegee
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6 1/8 inches. She had won the AAU outdoor high jump title from 1939 to 1948, but was unable to compete in the Olympics until the London games. The 1940 Summer Olympics originally scheduled for Tokyo and the 1944 Summer Olympics, originally set for London, were cancelled due to World War II. In 1952, Coca-Cola awarded Davis an endorsement contract, making her the first AfricanAmerican to earn an endorsement deal. She created the Alice Coachman Track and Field Foundation to help support young athletes. At the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, she was recognized as one of the 100 greatest Olympians in history. Albany’s Coachman Elementary School is named in her honor.
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pastors of several other area churches and more than 100 marchers, who walked through the area that has been rocked by a spate of recent shootings. Strange started the march with the hymn “Trouble In My Way” in front of the school and proceeded west to northwest 15 th Avenue, south to 65 th Street, east to 13th Avenue, south to 62nd Street, and back east to 11th Avenue, where it ended at Mt. Calvary. Along the way, pastors took turns offering prayer. Rev. Dr. Gaston Smith, pastor of Friendship M.B. Church, which recently lost some $30,000 in instruments and equipment to burglars who vandalized the building and a van, New Providence M,B. Church Pastor, Rev. Dr. Steven Caldwell, Rev. Dr. James Bush, III, associate pastor of Antioch M.B. Church of Brownsville, in addition to others. “We organized this because of all the senseless killings, homicides in the community. We want to bring awareness to the problems,” said Rev. Strange. “I got tired of doing so many funerals in the community, funerals for my members. It’s another segment of what we started in 2012, our CAP (Call A Pastor) Program.” (Cont'd on Page 9) MEMBER: National Newspaper Publishers Association ( NNPA), and Southeastern African-American Publishers Association (SAAPA) Florida Association of Black Owned Media (FABOM)