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Johnson Publishing Sells Ebony And Jet Magazines After 71 Year Run
Young Man Fatally Shot While Broadcasting On Facebook Live
ANTONIO PERKINS
CHICAGO, IL --- A man was shot dead while broadcasting on Facebook Live.
The graphic video shows An- tonio Perkins in his Lawndale neighborhood on Wednesday (June 15) evening. He’s outside and is interacting with those around him while recording himself. Six minutes in to the video, gunshots ring out after Perkins tells someone, “Boy, stop playin’.” The phone drops through blood stained grass and is shuffled around until finally going black. In the distance you hear screams, talking, and sirens.
Police arrive on the scene and Perkins was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 9:07 p.m. Detectives investigating have confirmed that the video is in- deed linked to his death.
Facebook Live is one of the application’s newest features, allowing users to broadcast in the moment via their cell- phones. Facebook has not re- moved the video as it has not been identified as being in any violation of their community guidelines. Videos that incite vi- olence are in direct violation and this video does not qualify according to the social media giant.
No one has been arrested in connection to the shooting and police are still investigating.
Baltimore’s City Council And
CHICAGO, IL -- Johnson Publishing has sold Ebony and Jet magazines to Clear View Group, an Austin, Texas-based private equity firm. The sale price has not been released. This news comes two years after the last print edition of Jet magazine was released.
Johnson Publishing CEO Desiree Rogers says that the sale will allow the Chicago- based publishing company to focus on re-building Fashion Fair Cosmetics, which was launched in 1973 to meet the beauty needs of African Amer- ican women.
“I can confirm that Ebony has been sold,” Rogers told the New York Post. “It allows Johnson Publishing to reduce its debt associated with the media company and focus on growth of its cosmetics busi- ness.”
The Ebony photo archives are still up for sale.
With new ownership coming in, current Editor-in-Chief Kierna Mayo is leaving Ebony to take on a new role at Interactive One, the digital publishing company that oper- ates Global Grind. Mayo made the announcement on Twitter in a series of tweets.
BALTIMORE, MD --- Things are heating up between Balti- more’s city council and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. Mayor Rawlings-Blake pro- posed budget cut in an initial attempt to solve Baltimore’s $60 million dollar budget deficit.
She proposed: city property tax would be reduced by a penny; $4 million dollars would be cut for after school programs; 225 vacant positions in the Baltimore City Police De- partment would not be filled among the long list.
The biggest point of con- tention between city council and the mayor is the after school program funding. With the new fiscal year starting July 1st, city council threatened a government shut down if the mayor did not make cuts to pay
MAYOR STEPHANIE RAWLINGS-BLAKE.
for after school programs.
On last Monday, in an at- tempt to compromise, Rawl- ings-Blake announced additional cuts to public health services, libraries, and housing
inspections.
Despite this compromise,
the city council and the mayor are continuing to battle it out.
Mayor At Odds Over Budget; Could
Cause Government Shutdown
After 2-Year Investigation: Feds Close Case Of Teen Found Hung
Sixth Grader Dragged By Her Neck By Group Of White Boys
Sixth grader has marks on her neck.
BLADENBORO, NC -- Fed- eral investigators have closed their case into the death of a teen from Bladenboro, North Carolina. According to The Fayetteville Observer, they will also not pursue civil rights charges. Lennon Lacy was 17 when he was found hanging from a swing set in 2014, and many people believed that he was lynched in a hate crime.
Over the past couple of years, Lacy’s family has questioned many things about the case and the circumstances of his death, including the shoes he was wearing. They say that the shoes found on him after his death were not his, among other things.
A pathologist hired by the NAACP also questions how Lacy, a nearly 200 lb. teen, would have been able to hang himself in that manner. There are also conflicting reports about what happened at the
Lennon Lacy was found hanging from a swing set.
scene.
There have also been claims
that Lacy’s involvement with a 31-year-old white woman may have led someone to plot and kill him. Additionally, the Bladen County area has been subject to Ku Klux Klan activity for many years.
After his death, Lacy’s grave and memorial site were dese- crated and a whole was dug in front of his grave.
Black Lives Matter Activist Is Free On Bail
WACO, TX ---The family of a black sixth grader in Texas is suing her school after white students allegedly wrapped a rope around her neck and pulled her to the ground.
The $3-million lawsuit ac- cuses Live Oak Classical School in Waco of negligence, gross negligence, and inten- tional infliction of emotional distress. The lead attorney on the case is Levi McCathern, who represents the Dallas Cowboys.
According to the lawsuit, KP’s mother chose Live Oak— a largely white private school with a pricey tuition rate. The lawsuit claims KP encoun- tered bullying at the school that was not disciplined.
An email from KP’s mom in the lawsuit from November al-
leges that a boy repeatedly pushed and shoved her 12- year-old daughter. But the main complaint against the school comes from an April field trip. KP and several other children were said to have come across a swing with long rope.
The lawsuit states KP was standing to the side of the swing when three white males, including one who allegedly bullied her in the past, pulled the rope back and wrapped it around her neck. The boys then violently jerked KP to the ground, the family claims, leaving abrasions on her neck. Jeremy Counseller, a board member at the school de- scribed what happened as “ac- cident.”
PASADENA, CA --- Jasmine Richards, who also goes by Jasmine Abdullah, the Black Lives Matter activist who was convicted of “felony lynching,” is now free on bail. The Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles Twit- ter page made the announce- ment on Saturday.
Richards’ story had been a cause of outrage–one because the charge of “lynching” had been leveled against a Black person, when originally the laws were meant to protect Black people; and two, because her conviction happened around the same time as convicted sex- ual predator, Brock Turner. Both Turner and Richards received roughly the same sen- tences—about three months in jail—though her charge seemed retaliatory and thin, and Brock was convicted of sexually as- saulting an unconscious woman at a Stanford fraternity party.
JASMINE RICHARDS
It all began in August 2015, when Richards was arrested at a rally at La Pintoresca Park in Pasadena, Calif, reports the Pasadena Star News. Police were attempting to arrest an- other woman accused of fight- ing with staff at a nearby restaurant when Richards at- tempted “de-arrest” her by pulling her away from police.
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