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Former congressman, J.C. Watts is creating a black news network called Black Television News Channel and is set to launch early to mid 2009. According to the NY Post, the news venture "has an agreement with Comcast cable to be carried in several cities with large black populations including Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, Washington D.C., Atlanta and Baltimore."
Watts told the NY Post: "I'm not so sure that you see anything on CNN or Fox News that specifically targets the African American community."
According to the BTNC website: BTNC will be a 24/7 cable news network that provides original news programming with a distinctly African-American perspective, filling a major gap in coverage of African Americans by today’s mainstream media.
If you are interested in learning more about the network, sending feedback, or looking for employment or have business proposals here is the website link: http://www.btnc.tv/
I like their poll question to which the results should be obvious:
Does the African American community really need it's own news channel?
90% yes
10% no
Brazil's Missing Millions
One year ago, pilots were transporting cash for a bank when their fatal plane crash in a Brazilian village, Maracangalha, caused a scatter of over $3 Million dollars, which was stolen on the ground. Some locals took the money, and only 10 percent of the money has been recovered.
The money brought much trouble to the local residents prompting thugs to come looking for some of the recipients, to extort money. One person was killed.
Today, almost a year after the incident, a man interviewed in the film, said the money was a curse on the village, because of all of the trouble it created. Would you have taken any of the money?
A Greenville, South Carolina sanitation worker Norman Looper saved his co-worker's, Ray Russell's life. They were on the road collecting rubbish and all of a sudden a car sped up. First Coast News reports:
"Russell said that he saw the car coming and went to grab Looper, but Looper pushed has hand back and was hit. Russell said that the push caused him to fall back just enough that the car missed him.
"I think he knew it was going to happen that way and that's why he shoved my hand back from grabbing his to keep me from getting in the middle," Russell said. "I'd call him a deep, down hero." " READ MORE...
I am getting tired of the "GOTCHA!" moments. It is becoming like entertainment. This article is good. Not detailed, but raises a valid point or two.
The Washington Post asks in an article:
"As incidents pile up, formulaic entertainment replaces serious discussion
Has racial conflict become amusement? Is the conversation about racism mere entertainment, dialogue rendered for show, inflammatory words tossed back and forth over a racial divide to excite an audience?" READ MORE...
Photo Credit: 5 year old Quatisha Maycock
from Crimenews2000.com
There are too many evil animals walking amongst us. Ladies, watch the men you befriend, especially if you have children. He was sentenced to death. One less mouth for the taxpayers to feed.
AP News reports:
"MIAMI - A man convicted of murder for leaving a 5-year-old girl to be eaten alive by alligators in the Everglades was sentenced to death Monday.
A defense attorney said Harrel Franklin Braddy, who already served time in prison for attempted murder but was released early for good behavior, had befriended Shandelle Maycock and her daughter, Quatisha, through his involvement in church outreach programs.
Prosecutors said Braddy drove the girl’s mother to a remote sugarcane field, choked her to unconsciousness and left her to die. Maycock woke up bleeding and disoriented, but managed to flag down help.
Braddy drove the girl to a section of Interstate 75 in the Everglades known as Alligator Alley and dropped her in the water beside the road, prosecutors said. She was alive when alligators bit her on the head and stomach, a medical examiner said." READ MORE...
This past Saturday, rapper TI was arrested on illegal weapons charges. According to Alaska Report "Rapper T.I. has been arrested again, this time for buying machine guns and two silencers. hree other guns were also found in the vehicle Harris was driving.
ATLANTA, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- Federal agents in Atlanta Saturday arrested Clifford Harris, known professionally as rapper T.I., for accepting three machine guns and two silencers.
Harris, 27, has a prior felony conviction for drug charges stemming from a 1998 incident in Cobb County, Ga. It is illegal for convicted felons to possess firearms of any kind."
Here is the court affidavit: READ AFFIDAVIT
Photo Credit: AP/Yahoo!News
Today in Panama City, Florida the jury acquitted them in the boot camp death of 14 year old here is some background information from USA TODAY:
"Anderson was black; the guards are white, black and Asian. The boy died in January 2006 after being taken to a hospital from the boot camp, which was run by the county sheriff's office.
He had been sent to the camp for a probation violation and became lethargic during a physical fitness test shortly after arriving. An exercise yard videotape shows the seven guards repeatedly hitting the boy with their fists and knees. The camp nurse is accused of watching but doing nothing during most of the 30-minute encounter.
The eight defendants are charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child, which carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison.
A first autopsy on Anderson, conducted by the Bay County medical examiner, attributed his death to natural complications of a genetic blood disorder. After an outcry from Anderson's family and the public, his body was exhumed and a second autopsy by another doctor found he had suffocated.
The state Legislature dismantled the state's military-style youth boot camps after Anderson's death. The case also led to the resignation of the chief of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
The Legislature agreed to pay Anderson's family $5 million this year to settle civil claims."
Photo Credit: AFP/Nicholas Kamm
Yahoo! News reports:
"WASHINGTON (AFP) - He sleeps on a bench, but he is king of chess during the day at Washington's Dupont Circle, where he dazzles beginners and masters alike with his winning moves on the park's stone chessboards.
Tom Murphy, 49, makes what little money he has from teaching his prodigious knowledge of the game to passersby for a few dollars.
"He has the title of expert in chess. This is the second highest American title; above him are master. So it means he is quite good," said Washington's Chess Center director David Mehler.
A former math and science major and a celebrity among amateurs, Murphy has made the Dupont Circle public square America's most prestigious chess park after New York's fabled Washington Square, according to some chess lovers." READ MORE...
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