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Miami Renames Street To Remember Trayvon Martin
TRAYVON MARTIN
Miami is remembering the life of Trayvon Martin by renaming a street near the high school he attended be- fore he was murdered in 2012.
The Miami-Dade commis- sioners “approved adding Martin’s name to the part of Northeast 16th Avenue that leads to Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High, where Martin was in 11th grade.”
The road will be called “Trayvon Martin Avenue,” and is expected to go into ef- fect this week.
Donald Trump Calls
See Clearly Now'
LeBron James A ‘Hater’
Singer, Dead At 80
In Anti-Black Lives
Johnny Nash, best known for the ‘70s hit, “I Can See Clearly Now The Rain Is Gone” has died. Nash passed away from natural causes at his home in Houston on Tues- day (Oct. 6), his son and namesake confirmed to the Associated Press. He was 80.
Born in Houston in 1940, Nash started out singing in the church choir before per- forming music covers on a local variety show. In 1957, Nash landed a record deal with ABC-Paramount and re- leased his debut single, “A Teenager Sings the Blues.” The following year, Nash earned his first charting single with “A Very Special Love,”
Matter Rant
JOHNNY NASH
originally recorded by Doris Day.
Nash bounced around to different record labels, and worked as an actor, before linking with manager and business partner, Danny Simms, and launching the label JAD Records in 1964.
Donald Trump never shies away from criticizing influential African-Ameri- cans, so why wouldn’t he go after LeBron James?
Trump, during a two- hour interview with conser- vative radio host Rush Limbaugh last Friday, took aim at the NBA super- star, labeling him a “hater,” notes Real Clear Politics.
“He's a great basketball player, but people don't want to see a guy that's that way. They don't want to see that... He’s a hater," Trump said during the broadcast. "You don't want to sit down,
DONALD TRUMP AND LEBRON JAMES
watch a basketball game, and then watch somebody that hates your guts, okay.” James responded " he does- n't give a damn of what Trump thinks about him."
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