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National
Bayou Classic Weekend
Former NCNW National
Cuban Dictator, Fidel Castro, 90, Dies
Fidel Castro had held on to power longer than any other living national leader except Queen Elizabeth II.
HAVANA, CUBA --- Fidel Castro, the revolutionary who brought the Cold War to the Western Hemisphere in 1959 and then defied the United States for nearly half a century as Cuba’s maximum leader, died on Friday. He was 90.
Cuban state television an- nounced the death but gave no other details.
In declining health for many years, Mr. Castro had orches- trated what he hoped would be the continuation of his Com- munist revolution, stepping aside in 2006 when he became seriously ill. His younger brother, and closet confidante, Raul, now 85, became presi- dent after Mr. Castro formally resigned as president. Raul Castro has ruled Cuba since then, although he has told the Cuban people he intends to re- sign in 2018.
President Dorothy Height To
Marred By 10 Being
Be Honored On Postage Stamp
Shot On Bourbon Street
The U.S. postal service just announced that Dorothy Height will be honored as the 40th stamp in the Black Her- itage Forever series. The paint- ing of Height is based on a 2009 photograph shot by La- teef Mangum. Art director Derry Noyes designed the stamp.
Height was a tireless ac- tivist who dedicated her life to fighting for racial and gender equality. She lived a remark- able life that was in service to her community, but African- American women in particu- lar. Although she rarely gained the recognition granted her male contemporaries, she be- came one of the most influen- tial civil rights leaders of the 20th century. She was the president of the National Council of Negro Women for forty years and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Free- dom in 1994.
In 1990, Height, along with 15 other African Americans, formed the African-American
Dorothy Height the national president of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) for 40 years.
1947 to 1956; was the chair- person of the Executive Com- mittee of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights; and an honored guest at the inauguration of President Barack Obama on January 20, 2009, where she was seated on stage.
Height is the 15th African American woman to appear in the series. The stamp will be available in 2017.
NEW ORLEANS, LA -- Ten people between the ages of 20 and 37 were shot, one of them fatally, in the crowded heart of New Orleans' French Quarter early Sunday, police said.
Shots were fired at around 1:30 a.m. on the famous Bour- bon Street.
Forty police officers were al- ready in the same block as part of extra patrols following the earlier Bayou Classic college football game and were able to respond quickly, Superin- tendent Michael Harrison said.
The shooting appeared to have stemmed from an argu- ment two men who are not from New Orleans, Harrison said. The argument then turned into a shootout.
None of the victims were the intended targets.
The victim killed in the
Demontris Toliver was fa- tally shot after being caught in the cross-fire of an argument between 2 men.
shooting was identified as 25- year-old tattoo artist, De- montris Toliver of Baton Rouge, according to the New Orleans police department.
Women for
Freedom. She served as na- tional president of Delta Sigma Theta sorority from
Still Good People In The World:
Reproductive
Baltimore Officer Cries
Arizona Grandma Spends Thanksgiving With Teen She Mistakenly Texted
Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench at Thanksgiving.
After Not Being Able To
Save Baby During Protest
BALTIMORE, MD -- A hero police officer attempted to save a one-month-old baby who died while her mom was protesting against a police shooting.
Baltimore Major Richard Gibson was on patrol near where the protest was being held about 3 p.m. on Saturday in the wake of the shooting of a man armed with two knives on Friday.
During the protest, which was attended by about 30 peo- ple, a group of people told Major Gibson a one-month- old girl had stopped breathing and was bleeding from the nose.
Gibson then rushed into the pizza shop and performed CPR on the youngster in a des- perate attempt to bring her back to life.
The mother, who was one of the protesters, had taken her young daughter inside to feed her, police said in a statement.
A Facebook Live video
Baltimore police major Richard Gibson was caught on video after the baby was rushed to the hospital.
shows paramedics rushing the baby out of the restaurant, and the distraught officer in the moments immediately after. The baby was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Gibson appeared to be holding back tears, and had blood on his mouth.
CHANDLER, AR---- An Ari- zona grandmother who thought she was texting one of her grandchildren, but it turned out to be a random stranger, did what she said she would do.. .. she invited the teen to Thanksgiving dinner.
Wanda Dench texted 17- year-old Jamal Hinton of Chandler, Ariz., and when he asked who was texting him, she simply replied back “Your grandma”. Jamal then asked for a photo of the mysterious grandmother to verify, and once he saw the pic, he replied back with his own picture and wrote “You not my grandma”.
But that didn’t stop Dench from extending Jamal an in- vite to Thanksgiving dinner. And while people across the country were celebrating Thanksgiving with family on Thursday, Jamal had a seat at Dench’s table.
“She is a very sweet lady,” Jamal said. “She told me her husband was a veteran and she always invited his friends over for dinner, so she’s used to having a lot of people over. I just got a vibe from her that made me feel at home.”
Dench says the experience has given her faith in human- ity, and she plans on keeping in touch with Jamal.
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