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Gunmen Storm Luxury Hotel In Mali
Kind Kid Gives
Father Made Mother Hold Their 5-Month-Old Twins While He Shot Them, Then Himself
People run to flee from the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako, Mali, Friday, Nov. 20, 2015. The company that runs the Radisson Blu Hotel in Mali's capital says assailants have taken hostages in a brazen assault involving grenades.
Kids know a thing or two about compassion.
No one likes to be bullied, es- pecially for something that’s out of their control. So when one student was made fun of for wearing no-brand sneakers to school, another came to his de- fense.
The boy felt bad that his peer was getting picked on and de- cided to do something about it: he gave his classmate a brand new pair of Nike LeBrons.
Let’s say this now – labels and clothes aren’t important, but this was such a touching mo- ment of giving, it can’t be ig- nored.
New App To Preserve African American WWI History
Black Soldiers in World War I.
Morgantown, WV — In an ongoing effort to uncover the hidden stories of African Amer- ican veterans, the West Virginia University Reed College of Media is partnering with Con- gressional Black Caucus Veter- ans Braintrust to develop an app that would allow users to travel back in history.
The app, BlackTimeMap, will combine virtual and augmented reality technology with commu- nity participation to create an immersive, interactive and edu- cational experience that pre- serves African American history in WWI. “The time is now to de- velop a digital record for the up- coming WWI National Commemoration in 2017. We will not be satisfied with merely remaining a footnote in the an- nals of WWI history,” said Ron E. Armstead, Executive Direc- tor Congressional Black Caucus Veterans Braintrust.
The app will allow smart- phone, tablet and Google card- board users to visit African American war memorial sites in 360° from anywhere in the world and travel back in time with augmented reality content. Audiences will be able to access historical photos, film and audio as well as pin their own images, stories and documents to a virtual “wall” at the memo- rial sites.
Gawain Wilson holds his daughters he murdered.
JACKSONVILLE, FL -- A mother lies hospitalized in critical condition after the fa- ther of her twin baby girls shot them to death in her arms, and then killed the woman’s dad, according to her family.
Ultimately, Gawain Rushane Wilson, a former military man turned the weapon on himself and died at the scene, authorities said.
The carnage took place in the Jacksonville, Florida, home of Travis Hiatt, the twin’s grandfather. His daugh- ter, Megan, and her five- month-old girls Hayden and Kayden, had been living with him, authorities said, accord- ing to local reports.
Wilson allegedly entered the home and forced his es- tranged girlfriend to pick up the babies.
“He wanted to destroy her world,” the woman’s mother, Melissa Bateh, told First Coast News about last week’s devastation. “He wanted her to watch it be destroyed.”
BAMAKO, MALI -- Islamist gunmen stormed a luxury hotel packed with foreigners in Mali's capital Bamako on Fri- day, taking 170 hostages in a former French colony that has been battling rebels allied with al Qaeda for several years.
A senior security source said some of the hostages had been freed after being made to re- cite verses from the Koran. The French newspaper Le Monde quoted the Malian se- curity ministry as saying at least three hostages had been killed.
The raid on the Radisson Blu hotel, which lies just west of the city center near govern- ment ministries and diplo- matic offices in the former French colony, comes a week
after Islamic State militants killed 129 people in Paris.
The identity of the Bamako gunmen, or the group to which they belong, is not known.
Northern Mali was occupied by Islamist fighters, some with links to al Qaeda, for most of 2012. They were driven out by a French-led military opera- tion, but sporadic violence has continued in Mali's central belt on the southern reaches of the Sahara, and in Bamako.
The security source said as many as 10 gunmen had stormed the building, firing shots and shouting "Allahu Akbar", or "God is great" in Arabic. The hotel's head of se- curity said two private security guards had been injured in the early stages of the attack.
Megan Hiatt and their twins, Hayden and Kayden.
daughter told her, “Mama, he killed them. He killed them in my arms. He made me hold them when he killed them. He made me watch.”
Bateh said her daughter had to crawl through her in- fants’ blood to reach her fa- ther, who was dying on the floor. “He wanted her to tell her brother that he was the best son ever and he loved him.”
The mother said she had misgivings about her daugh- ter’s relationship with Wil- son, who she described as threatening and controlling.
He would limit Megan’s contact with family and friends and take away her cell phone, Bateh said.
His Bullied
Classmate A
Pair Of LeBrons
Donald Trump Hires Black
Bateh said her 22-year-old
Police Mace Protesters
Female Tea Partier As
Demanding To See Jamar Clark Video
Campaign Spokesperson
As Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump continues to struggle in the polls in early voting states against Ben Carson, he has recruited a Black female Tea Partier as his campaign spokeswoman, according to Politico.
The woman, Katrina Pier- son, is known for her hardline stance on immigration.
“Islam preys on the weak and uses political correctness as cover,” she wrote on Face- book. “Two things that Ameri- cans won’t be concerned with when @realDonaldTrump is in the White House.”
To the Trump campaign, the newly hired Pierson — a onetime [Texas Sen. Ted] Cruz loyalist who stood with the Texas senator onstage the night of his election in 2012 — brings a tough-talking conser- vative message delivered with a Texas twang and a polished presence on camera and social media.
Her addition last week indi- cates Trump’s resolve to keep the party’s activist base in his
KATRINA PIERSON
camp and away from the Texas senator, whom many see as the natural heir to Trump’s anti-establishment supporters should the mogul’s candidacy fade.
People who know Pierson, a media-savvy former Democ- rat with plans of launching her own fashion line, describe her as a much better fit for Trump than for Cruz.
Trump and Carson con- tinue to dominate polls, with Trump holding a slight edge in some surveys. Do you think Pierson’s tough talk on im- migration will help Trump pull away from Carson?
MINNEAPOLIS, MN ---For a fourth night, protesters call- ing for the release of video that shows the fatal shooting of an unarmed Black man descended on a north Minneapolis police precinct headquarters, only to be met with guns and mace as police pushed them back.
Wednesday’s protests came shortly after authorities named the two police officers involved in the shooting death of Jamar Clark, a Black man who police say engaged in a scuffle with of- ficers after he tried to interfere with paramedics tending to his girlfriend early Sunday. Lt. Bob Kroll, president of the police union, said Clark al- legedly tried to grab an officer’s gun during the struggle. Clark, who was shot in the head, was taken off life support two days later.
Witnesses, however, say Clark was handcuffed during the shooting.
During Wednesday’s demonstrations, protesters called for Mayor Betsy Hodges to address what they
JAMAR CLARK
saw as an excessive show of muscle that included rifles, po- lice in militarized gear, and mace canisters, the Star Trib- une reports.
Throughout the night, Min- neapolis police claimed, via Twitter, that chemical irritant was dispersed by protesters as they attempted to take down the tarp that separated police from demonstrators. Those on the ground, however, denied the claim, posting photographs and videos of police unleashing pepper spray on the crowds.
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