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Submit Your Event For National Exposure During Black History Month
Girl, 11, Held For Beating Baby To Death
DURHAM, NC — To cele- brate Black History Month, EveryBlackEvent.com is inviting the public to submit photos, written accounts (es- says or short stories), or other media of historical Black events.
The very best submissions will be featured on the web- site for the world to see. EveryBlackEvent.com is a comprehensive nationwide list of African-American events and organizations.
The site provides a way for any Black organization to easily submit information about upcoming events for immediate, worldwide distri- bution. It also includes pro-
files and contact information of Black organizations, video clips, a slot machine game and a page for anyone to sign-up as a volunteer. The web site’s slogan is: “Every Black Event; Past, Present, and Future.”
For more information on how to submit a photo or written account for Black History Month, interested ones should visit www.Every- BlackEvent.com and click on the “Black History” tab.
OHIO —- An 11-year-old girl in Ohio has been charged with murder after she al- legedly beat a 2-month-old baby to death.
The girl went before a juve- nile court judge Monday and was ordered to undergo a mental competency exam be- fore her next appearance.
The incident took place Fri- day at an apartment in the city of Wickliffe, about 17 miles outside Cleveland.
The girl’s mother was
babysitting the infant, Zuri Whitehead. She wanted to give the baby’s mother a break from caring for a newborn, police said.
After the mother fell asleep on the couch, the girl took Zuri upstairs. She returned 45 minutes later, woke the mother up and said some- thing was wrong with the baby.
Zuri was taken to a hospi- tal where she died during sur- gery.
Alabama Is At It Again: Reject Federal Order And Say No To Gay Marriage
Virginia Man Being Investigated As Serial Killer
Is anyone surprised? Ala- bama officials are defying the Federal order to allow gay couples to marry.
As the 50 year anniversary of the March on Selma ap- proaches, the civil rights of others are being denied. At least 51 of 67 Alabama coun- ties were not issuing mar- riage licenses to same-sex couples in defiance of a fed- eral ruling to do so.
Gay Alabamans’ excite- ment turned to disappoint-
Gay rights activists in front of courthouse.
ment as they headed to the license and found the office courthouse to get a marriage window closed.
VIRGINIA —- The man sus- pected of killing college stu- dent, Hannah Graham has now been officially charged with her slaying.
Jesse Matthew is charged with 1st degree murder in the University of Virginia stu- dent’s death.
The 18-year-old Graham went missing before dawn on September 13 after she was last spotted on surveillance cameras in Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall area.
In October, authorities found what turned out to be Graham’s skull and bones on an abandoned property eight miles from where the college sophomore was last seen. Sur- veillance video and other ac- counts led authorities to identify Matthew as the sus- pect in her disappearance.
Matthew was taken into custody September 24 on a beach in Galveston County, Texas; about 1,300 miles away from where Graham was last seen.
Matthew’s arrest in the Graham case prompted au- thorities to investigate his pos-
HANNAH GRAHAM And JESSE MATTHEW
sible links to a string of un- solved killings and disappear- ances in the area. One of those cases involved 17-year-old Alexis Murphy of Lov- ingston, Virginia, who disap- peared in 2013 and whose body has not been found.
Investigators are looking into his possible connection to other similar cases in the area. They include the August 2009 killing of Virginia Tech stu- dents Heidi Childs and David Metzler and the Octo- ber 2009 killing of 23-year- old Cassandra Morton of Lynchburg, Virginia.
Police are also investigating Matthew’s possible ties to the disappearance of 19-year- old Samantha Ann Clarke of Orange, Virginia.
Postponement Of Election In Nigeria Leads To Protest
ABUJA, NIGERIA - Nige- ria’s elections will not be postponed past March 28, National Security Advisor (NSA) Sambo Dasuki said in an interview Monday, say- ing that Boko Haram fighters who forced the delay would be defeated within the com- ing six weeks.
The NSA for several weeks had been urging the Inde- pendent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to reschedule the vote, offering a range of explanations.
Then last week, he wrote INEC chief Attahiru Jega urging a delay on the grounds that the military could not provide nationwide election security because all available resources were being deployed to the north- east to fight Boko Haram.
INEC’s decision to post- pone the polls at Dasuki’s urging was criticized by civil society and many Western governments including the United States, Britain and Canada.
The opposition All Pro- gressives Congress (APC) said INEC’s independence had been compromised and accused Dasuki of “crude and fraudulent” action to help the political interests of Presi-
Protesters hold signs against the postponement of the Febru- ary 14th election.
dent Goodluck Jonathan. Meanwhile.....
Boko Haram Attacks Continue
Islamist Boko Haram in- surgents from Nigeria bombed a Niger border town, killing five people, and car- ried out attacks in neighbor- ing Cameroon, kidnapping a bus full of passengers, mili- tary and local sources said on Monday.
An intensification of at- tacks near Lake Chad - a crossroads between Nigeria, Chad, and Niger - has sent tens of thousands of Nigeri- ans fleeing across the bor- ders.
With the Nigerian army struggling to contain the mil- itants, bordering countries have launched a regional of-
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau delivers a 28-minute speech in a video posted online on February 9, 2015 (AFP Photo)
fensive against them, spurring a series of revenge attacks inside Niger and Cameroon.
Boko Haram militants stormed a prison in Diffa overnight and set off a car bomb near a customs office in the town, shortly before Niger’s parliament was due to ratify participation in the regional offensive, witnesses said. Five people were killed in the bomb explosion and five others seriously injured, Niger security sources said.
Heavy gunfire carried on through the day as Niger’s army repelled the assault, Boko Haram’s third on Diffa in four days. A member of the national guard said about 100 suspected Boko Haram militants were in prison in Niger, but none in Diffa.
Business News
Cigar City Brewing Co. Talks With Anheuser Busch
According to sources, An- heuser-Busch is interested in purchasing Cigar City Brew- ing.
Considered the area’s best-known craft beer maker is owned and operated by Joey Redner, son of Strip club owner, Joe Redner. Anheuser Busch’s interest comes hot on the heels of not only their recent purchase of Seattle craft brewery Elysian.
What you might find even more interesting, is that Cigar City took the meeting. According to multiple sources, Anheuser-Busch is shopping for craft brewery in the southeast United States
JOEY REDNER
area. If the sources within the A-B inner sanctum are correct, Anheuser desires to own a “craft” brewery in every major region of the United States.
This news is important to Carver City/Lincoln Gardens residents who are being squeezed from all sides.
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