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The Works Of Literary Icon, John Baldwin Are Now Housed At the Schomburg Center In Harlem
Girl, 8, Is
Cleveland Crazy That Killed 74-Year-Old Kills Himself
Suspect In
Baby’s Death
ERIE, PA —- The man who randomly killed a Cleveland re- tiree and posted video of the crime on Facebook shot himself to death in his car Tuesday dur- ing a police chase in Pennsylva- nia, ending a multistate manhunt less than 48 hours after it began.
Acting on a tip, Pennsylvania State Police spotted Steve Stephens, 37, leaving a Mc- Donald’s in Erie and went after him, bumping his car to try to get it to stop, authorities said. He shot himself in the head as the car spun out of control, po- lice said.
“This started with one tragedy and ended with another person taking their own life,” said Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams. “We would have liked to have brought Steve in peacefully and really talked to him about why this happened.”
Stephens, a job counselor who worked with teenagers and young people, was wanted on murder charges in the shooting of Robert Godwin Sr., a 74- year-old former foundry worker
STEVE STEPHENS
At Daycare Center
Literary icon, James Baldwin.
Korey Brown was found dead at day care center.
Lauded by his contempo- raries and widely hailed as one of the most profound social critics of all time, James Baldwin is a literary icon.
Born in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance, the writ- ing of the American novelist, essayist, playwright and poet has endured the test of time. His books are a staple on best- seller's lists, recordings of his talks and speeches continue to rack up YouTube views by the thousands and the 2016 re- lease of the documentary, "I Am Not Your Negro" based on his unfinished manuscript, Re- member This House, was a box office success receiving a Peo- ple's Choice Award at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival and an Academy Award nomination.
Now a personal archive of Baldwin's creative works is returning home to Harlem.
On last Wednesday, The Schomburg Center for Re- search in Black Culture at The New York Public Library, an- nounced its acquisition of nearly 30 linear feet of Bald- win's published and unpub- lished works.
The Baldwin archive will give researchers the breadth and depth of the significance of Baldwin's career as a writer and as an engaged public man of letters. This archive will en- able researchers to trace the textual evolution of virtually all of Baldwin's writings across his whole career, from notes to
his first novel Go Tell It On the Mountain to each of his other novels and essays.
The comprehensive collec- tion includes handwritten let- ters and manuscripts; handwritten and typed drafts of essays, novels and short sto- ries; galleys and screenplays with handwritten notes and fragments; interviews, telegrams, personal photo- graphs, correspondence and audio recordings.
“We are more than excited to have James Baldwin re- turn home to Harlem,” says Kevin Young, Director of the Schomburg Center. “Bald- win’s amazing collection adds to our ever-growing holdings of writers, political figures, artists, and cultural icons across the African diaspora. With the current resurgence of interest in Baldwin’s works and words, and renovation of our own spaces from the main gallery to the Schomburg Shop, the timing couldn’t be better for Baldwin to join us at the Schomburg Center.”
Acquired through the Ford Foundation, Katharine J. Rayner, James and Morag Anderson, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and New York Life, items from the Baldwin Archive were on limited public display from April 13-17 as part of the exhi- bition The Evidence of Things Seen: Selections from the James Baldwin Papers.
MUSKEGON, MI —- A young girl is a suspect in the death of an infant at a Michi- gan daycare.
Muskegon Police Chief Jef- frey Lewis said that Korey Brown, who is only one year old, was found dead at the Keysha Keepers Daycare when his mother went to pick him up, along with two other chil- dren.
While at least one adult was there at the time was well as four other children, police are reportedly eyeing an eight- year-old child as a suspect, with a five-year-old child said to be a witness to the incident.
Bryanna Reasonover, the mother of the infant, told the Detroit Free Press that she had dropped her children off at the daycare so that she could go to work. However, when she returned to pick up her children, she found Korey unresponsive in a playpen.
She also claimed that Korey had bite marks and bruises on his face and fingers.
“It’s very frustrating to not know what happened, to know he was suffering when all he probably wanted was his mommy,” she said.
According to police, it is be- lieved that the children were left alone for an unspecified amount of time and that the young girl had stepped in when Korey started crying. It is unclear whether she meant to kill the baby or not.
and father of 10 who was picking up aluminum cans on Sunday when he was gunned down.
The chilling video was on Facebook for three hours before it was taken down, drawing crit- icism of the social network and renewing questions about how responsibly it polices objection- able material.
One of Godwin’s daughters, Debbie Godwin, said she wished Stephens had been cap- tured.
Law enforcement officials had said on Monday that Stephens’ cellphone was last tracked Sun- day afternoon near Erie.
Police Make Arrest After Teen Accidentally Kills Himself While Live On Instagram
Malachi Hemphill
FOREST PARK, Ga. - Police have made an arrest in the death of a teen who accidentally shot himself while he was live on In- stagram.
Malachi Hemphill, 13, was handling a gun while broadcast- ing live on the social media site when the firearm went off on April 10. Hemphill was rushed to the hospital, where he later died.
Police said on Monday that an investigation has led to the ar- rest of a juvenile who allegedly furnished the firearm to Hemphill. That juvenile has been charged with numerous of- fenses related to the incident.
Family members had previ- ously said that they did not know where Hemphill had got- ten the gun from.
Hemphill's godmother, Shantirea Bankston, said that some of Malachi's friends may have known he had the gun days before the fatal accident.
The Live Shooting
“I heard a big boom," his
mother Shaniqua Stephens said. "I couldn’t tell if it was a gunshot or what."
Stephens had just watched her 13-year-old son, Malachi Hemphill, take out the trash Monday evening when she heard the gunshot.
She rushed upstairs with her daughter to find her son in pool of blood. His phone was still streaming on Instagram Live.
“We kicked in the door. We found him just laying there in a pool of blood," Stephens said. "My daughter screamed and said, ‘Mom turn his phone off!' As I proceeded to look at his phone he was on Instagram Live.”
“There was about 40 to 50 kids outside," she said. "I guess these were the kids that were watching on live that live in the area. I guess when it happened they just ran over here.”
Former NBA star Shaquille O'Neal has visited Hemphill's family and has promised to pay for his funeral.
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