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‘Annie’ Star Has Published 2 Children’s Books
New Mayor Of Birmingham, AL
Randall Woodfin,
36, on last Tuesday unseated William Bell, the mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, in a nonpartisan runoff election.
Woodfin’s ambitious platform and dogged ground game ultimately bested Bell, 68, a two-term Democratic incumbent who had been in city politics since before Woodfin was born.
Woodfin defeated Bell 58 to 41 percent.
Woodfin rivaled Bell’s fundraising haul, bringing in over $500,000 thanks to a robust online fundraising operation and a series of events held across the coun- try by fellow alumni of More- house College. Speaking to progressive professionals in cities like New York City and Washington, D.C., Woodfin cast a donation to
Morehouse graduate, Ran- dall Woodfin is the mayor of Birmingham, Alabama.
his candidacy as a blow against President Donald Trump, claiming he would make the city the “frontline resistance” to White House policies.
Quvenzhane Wallis has authored 2 children’s books.
Quvenzhané Wallis,the 14-year-old Academy Award–nominated actress just released not one, but two children's books. It was 5 years ago when Wallis stole our hearts with her role in ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’, which earned her an Oscar nomination for best actress. With that nomina-
tion, she became the youngest actress to be nomi- nated for best actress. Al- though she didn't take home the big award, she kept the momentum going by star- ring in the 2014 remake of Annie with Jamie Foxx.
In 2015, Wallis made the big announcement that she will be releasing a series of
children's books with pub- lisher Simon and Schuster. The first two books, A Night Out With Mama and Shai and Emmie Star in Break An Egg! are here.
Wallis isn't stopping with just two books. Her next book, Shai and Emmie Star in Dancy Pants!, will be re- leased this January.
Hurricane Nate Hits Louisiana, Alabama And Mississippi
Hurricane Nate has touched the coasts of Louisiana, Alabama and Mis- sissippi Saturday afternoon (October 7).
The fast-moving storm made landfall as a Category 2 storm southeast of New Or- leans, according to the Na- tional Hurricane Center.
Sustained winds of 90 miles per hour moved toward land at 25 mph, pounding Grand Isle and Port Sulphur Louisiana.
The storm made its second landfall early Sunday morn- ing as a Category 1 hurricane and had been steadily weak- ening ever since.
Its maximum sustained winds had dropped to 35 mph, the center said, adding that elevated water levels from storm surge in areas along the Gulf coast would "gradually subside (Sunday) afternoon.”
It was the first hurricane to
make landfall in Mississippi since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
As of Sunday, more than 100,000 residents in Missis- sippi and Alabama were with- out power, but no storm-related deaths had been reported in those states or in Louisiana.
Mississippi Emergency Management Agency spokesman Greg Flynn said roughly 1,100 people spent the night in shelters. Hurri- cane Nate is the first storm to make landfall in Missis- sippi since Hurricane Kat- rina in 2005. The storm quickly lost power and down- graded to a tropical depres- sion as it moved toward Alabama and Georgia.
In Alabama, downtown Mobile experienced the storm's rising water which flooded homes and cars on the coast and inundated at least one major road.
Coroner Rules Death Of Woman Found In Freezer Was An Accident
An autopsy has deter- mined that a 19-year-old woman whose body was found inside a suburban Chicago hotel freezer died of hypothermia from exposure to cold conditions.
Kenneka Jenkins’ body was found Sept. 10 in a walk- in freezer at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare Hotel in Rosemont. Jenkins had left her Chicago home to attend a party at the hotel. She was found about 24 hours after relatives contacted the hotel and police to report her miss- ing.
Surveillance videos re- leased by police days later
Kenneka Jenkins was found Sept. 10 in an hotel freezer after attending a party.
show Jenkins, alone, wan- dering through a kitchen area near the freezer.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office says toxi- cology tests found alcohol,
caffeine and an epilepsy/mi- graine medication in Jenk- ins’ system.
The medical examiner con- cluded her death was an acci- dent.
White Supremacists Gather For 2nd March In Charlottesville
CHARLOTTEVILLE, VA — About 40 to 50 racist demonstrators gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia Sat- urday night (Oct. 7) bearing tiki torches and chanting “You will not replace us” just two months after similar protests led to the beating of Deandre Harris and the death of 32-year-old Heather Hayer.
According to reports, the protesters rallied in Emanci- pation Park near a covered statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Whether the statue will remain or be re- moved depends on the
Alt-right leader Richard Spencer led the march.
courts.
Led by Richard Spencer
the man who is credited with
coining the term “alt-right,” those who attended the rally also reportedly chanted “We will be back.” Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer took to Twitter to condemn the protesters calling them cow- ards and threatened legal ac- tion.
It was a planned flash mob,” Spencer said Satur- day night. “It was a great suc- cess. We’ve been planning this for a long time.”
“We wanted to prove that we came in peace in May, we came in peace in August, and we come again in peace,” he stated.
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