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Single Mom Law School Graduation Photos With Her 5 Children Goes Viral
Detroit Man Jailed For Shooting At Teen For Asking For Directions
Brennen Walker had to run for his life after getting loss and asking for directions to school. Randy Wimbley has been ar- rested.
HOUSTON —- Isehia Champs a single mother of 5, has been through a lot in her life but has managed to come out on top with the victory after achieving a dream she’s had since the age of 7.
Since she was 7-years-old Champs had the dream of someday becoming a lawyer when circumstances made it very hard to get there, accord- ing to CBS News.
“I really didn’t have any sta- ble guidance at that time. My mom was addicted to drugs. My dad was deceased. And I was homeless,” explained Champs. “I lived with friends or whoever would take me in. Then I got pregnant with the first of my five children, and things just went from there.”
She eventually dropped out of high school to support her child. In 2009, when she was pregnant with her fourth child, she underwent some of the most unimaginable things pos- sible. She lost her job, lost her house to a fire and lost the fa- ther of her children to cancer. At that point, she said her san- ity went, too.
In the midst of it all, she re- ceived a call from her pastor telling her to go to school and get her law degree.
Isehia Champs and her 5 children took graduation photos to commemorate her May graduation from law school.
DETROIT —- Brennen Walker was attempting to walk his bus route to Rochester Hills High School. At a certain point, he became lost in an af- fluent Detroit suburb and de- cided to ask for assistance.
“I got to the house, and I knocked on the lady’s door. Then she started yelling at me and she was like, ‘Why are you trying to break into my house?’ I was trying to explain to her that I was trying to get direc- tions to Rochester High. And she kept yelling at me. Then the guy came downstairs, and he grabbed the gun. He said he was forced to run for his life after 52-year-old Randy Wimbley began to shoot at
him.
This divine mental lapse
saved Walker’s life as it was discovered after he was taken into custody. Wimbley’s doorbell system recorded the incident.
The “joy” Brennan Wal- ker feels speaks to the fragility of life in certain sections of the country’s population. Although Detroit is labeled one of Amer- ica’s most dangerous cities, its suburb of Rochester Hills is nearly 75 percent safer than any other U.S. city. As a result, many conclude that this shoot- ing was fueled by racial igno- rance rather than a robbery, an assumption Lisa Walker so- lidified.
called me one day and said that God told her to tell me to go back to school and get my GED, because that lawyer I wanted to be, I’ll be it!” Champs expressed. “I thought it was a little crazy be- cause I was too old and I had three children with my fourth child on the way.”
Still, she did go back to school and got her GED. Then she went to Houston Commu- nity College and then the Uni- versity of Houston-Downtown.
She’s now a senior at Texas Southern University’s Thur- good Marshall School of Law and will graduate in May.
To celebrate she had her senior pictures taken and in- cluded her children in them, because if it weren’t for them, she believes she would never have made it.
Once posted to Facebook, the pictures went viral with thousands sending congratula- tions and well wishes to Champs and her children.
Atlanta Mayor Requests Resignations Of 26 Top Staffers
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and the staffers she has asked to reisgn.
“Pastor Louise Holman
Starbucks President Wants To Meet
With Black Men Arrested At Shop In Philly
Protesters occupied the Starbucks in Philadelphia where the arrest of 2 Black men took place.
ATLANTA - Atlanta’s mayor held a news conference last Tuesday, one day after asking her entire cabinet to resign.
Keisha Lance Bottoms
spoke about transparency and the reasoning behind her deci- sion.
During a cabinet meeting on last Monday, Bottoms told 26 top city officials that she wanted their resignation letters by the end of the day. She said she planned to talk with each of them and decide whose resigna- tions she will accept and whose she will decline.
Bottoms said this did not come as a complete surprise. After she took office in January, she informed all of Mayor Kasim Reed's former staff members that they could remain on the job for roughly 90 days while she got to know them bet- ter.
Bottoms said she is now
reaching her 100th day in office, and it is time to make her own decisions about her administra- tion and where we need to go as a city.
“We needed a fresh look at our leadership as a whole,” Bot- toms said. “This is the right op- portunity for us to reassess where we are.”
On last Monday, the city-is- sued cellphone of communica- tions director Anne Torres appeared to no longer be in service. A message said the number had been “changed, dis- connected or no longer work- ing.”
City Councilman Howard Shook said he was surprised by the decision.
Shook said they all antici- pated Bottoms would make changes, as past mayors have done. But he says previous may- ors haven't done it this quickly and potentially all at once.
PHILADELPHIA —- The CEO of Starbucks, Kevin Johnson travelled to night Philadelphia Sunday in hopes of having an opportunity to, as he put it in an online state- ment, “offer a face-to-face apol- ogy” to two Black men who were arrested in a Center City Starbucks last week.
The men had been sitting at a table waiting for an acquain- tance, but had not bought any- thing, violating a company
policy, the Black Police Com- missioner Richard Ross said. When they were asked to leave and refused, a store manager called police, who arrested them in an encounter that was captured on video that went viral over the weekend.
Protesters occupied the Starbucks store on Sunday af- ternoon, demanding the firing of the store manager who called police to the location
was planned for Monday morn- ing.
Details of Johnson’s visit to Philadelphia were not im- mediately available Sunday evening. A spokeswoman for the company said only that he was on his way.
Late Saturday night, he said in an online statement that he wanted to meet with the men who were arrested to “offer a face-to-face apology” for the “reprehensible actions.
Thursday.
Another protest
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