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Teen Targeted In ‘Hate Attack’ Thanks Men Who Died Defending Her
Destinee Mangum and her friend were the targets of an at- tack by Jeremy Joseph Christian, a white supremacist, that led to him fatally stabbing 2 men.
News Reporter Receives Racist Email About Her Natural Hair
Demetria Obilor was sent this racist email.
After she received a hateful racist letter, this traffic re- porter from Las Vegas is call- ing out the bigots.
Demetria Obilor, 26, wears her amazing natural tresses on KLAS 8 News Now.
She shared a screenshot of one of the racist emails she's received.
In college, she was told to
straighten her hair or wear a wig if she wanted to have an on-air career.
"I’ve been fortunate enough to be employed by sta- tions that have embraced my natural look, but I know that many black women would have a different story to tell [about their work] in the TV business," she said.
Philadelphia Man Exonerated After Serving 24 Years In Prison
Shaurn Thomas was re- leased from prison.
Now 43 years old, Thomas said he always be- lieved he would be cleared, and like many other exoner- ated prisoners, he does not hold a grudge.
PORTLAND, OR — Desti- nee Mangum, one of the teenage girls at the center of a stabbing attack in Portland, Oregon, has shared an emo- tional message of gratitude for the men who died trying to stop a man who was harassing her.
Mangum, 16, was riding a MAX train last Friday with a 17-year-old-friend who is Muslim and was wearing a hijab, according to The Ore- gonian, when a man later identified as Jeremy Joseph Christian, 35, al- legedly began verbally abus- ing the two girls.
Two men, Ricky John Best, 53, and Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, 23, intervened on the girls’ be- half and were fatally stabbed. A third man who confronted Christian, 21-year-old Micah David-Cole Fletcher, survived the attack.
In tears, Mangum told Fox affiliate KPTV last week- end that she wanted “to say thank you to the people who put their life on the line for me, because they didn’t even know me.”
Christian is known to au- thorities as a white suprema- cist and has previously been convicted of several felonies, according to the Portland Mercury. Before the attack, he was “ranting and raving.”
The attack occurred shortly before the beginning of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and has drawn con- demnation as the latest exam- ple of anti-Muslim hate in a political climate where Islam- ophobia is on the rise.
President Donald Trump was silent on the Portland incident initially, but tweeted about it Monday, not- ing the attacks were “unac- ceptable” and his prayers.
At the end of the day, Obilor wants everyone to know this is an experience of being black. “I want people to understand what it’s like sim- ply being who you are when you’re black. Some people have the audacity to say things like ‘racism doesn’t exist any- more,’ but that email was a prime example [that it does]."
Australia Gets
First Black
Senator
Philadelphia man was ex- onerated after serving 24 years of a life sentence for a murder he did not commit, CBS News reports.
Shaurn Thomas walked out of prison on Tuesday after a court threw out his 1993 conviction. A single witness, who later recanted, testified that Thomas, 16 years old at the time, was involved in the slaying of a businessman.
Thomas, who always maintained his innocence, re- ceived legal assistance toward his exoneration from the In- nocence Project.
White Developers And Agents Want To Dub Area In Harlem ‘SoHa’; Residents Protest
LUCY GICHUHI
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA — Senator Lucy Gichuhi, a Kenyan-born lawyer, was warmly welcomed by col- leagues when she recently be- came the first-ever person of black African descent in the Australian parliament.
The seat she took had been left vacant for more than six months.
She told reporters, “I am honored and humbled to be sworn in... I thank God, my husband and daughters, my father and all other friends, family and supporters for your encouragement, and sharing the vision we hold to unite Australia as one.”
But her victory did not come without challenges. Her opposers unsuccessfully tried to challenge her eligibility be- cause of her being born in Kenya. However, Gichuhi ar- rived in Australia with her husband and children back in 1999, and she legally became an Australian citizen in 2001.
Brothers, 14 And 11 Graduate From College And High School
HARLEM, NY — Develop- ers and real estate agents thought that they could come into the lower area of Harlem and dub it “SoHa,” short for South Harlem.
As far as residents are concerned, they thought wrong. NY1 reports that de- velopers want to refer to the area between 110th and 125th Streets to make it more trendy, similar to SoHo.
During a press conference last Wednesday, local leaders rejected the name, saying that it was insulting the cul- turally rich neighborhood and whitewashes the histori- cally Black community. They said the name change would only welcome more high-end developers and wealthy white people, leading to the dis- placement of long-time resi- dents.
“How dare someone try to rob our culture, and try to act as if we were not here, and create a new name, a new re- ality as if the clock started when other people showed up?” state Senator-elect Brian Benjamin said.
The name “SoHa” first ap- peared in a New York Times story in 1999, according to NY1. Since then, it has in- creasingly appeared on real estate websites like StreetEasy. Realtor Keller Williams recently dedicated a “SoHa” team in the neighbor- hood.
Community Board 10 member and real estate bro- ker Danni Tyson said profit is possible without rebrand- ing the neighborhood.“This is Harlem — a wonderful brand, a brand that is known all over this world,” she said.
FORT WORTH, TX —- Earlier last month, two genius brothers from Texas, Carson and Cannan Huey-You, have simultaneously gradu- ated from high school and col- lege. Carson, who is just 14 years old, just graduated from Texas Christian University with a degree in physics. He was the youngest graduate in the school's history.
Cannan, who is just 11 years old, just graduated from high school and will start studying at TCU in the fall - majoring in astrophysics and engineering. The two are not just brothers, but also best friends and study partners.
Their mom, Claretta Kimp, told the Washington Post: "They are just normal little boys who do normal lit- tle boy things.
Carson and Cannan Huey-You at Carson’s col- lege graduation on May 16.
But these boys are far from normal; They are in fact brilliant child prodigies! At such young ages, they have accomplished a lot academi- cally, and their goals are far different from what most kids their age are thinking about.
"Yes, they're smart," their mom said, "but that's just a small part of who they are.”
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