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Statue Of Dr. King Will
Catholic School Sends Kindergartener Home Over Haircut
Jalyn Broussard’s haircut led to the school sending him home.
BELMONT, CA --- Jalyn Broussard went to kinder- garten one day, proudly sporting a new hairstyle. But his modern fade quickly raised eyebrows among administrators at his Bel- mont, Calif., Catholic school. Of- ficials called the 5-year-old’s mother to pick him up because his haircut violated the school’s standards. She was outraged.
The school and Jalyn’s fam- ily reached a stalemate. The fam- ily filed a complaint with the U. S. Department of Education’s Of- fice for Civil Rights last week, ac- cusing Immaculate Heart of Mary School of discriminating against their African-American child.
Mariana Broussard, Jalyn’s mother, said in the com- plaint that the principal, Teri Grosey, told her that Jalyn’s haircut was distracting and vio- lates the school’s hairstyle policy.
Broussard said Jalyn felt embarrassed and unfairly sin- gled out.
The Archdiocese of San Fran- cisco declined to comment be- cause it had not read the complaint.
Broussard seeks about $16,000 for tuition reimburse- ment for Jalyn and his brother, who was a second-grader at the school.
Scholarship Fund Set Up For Members Of Emanuel A.M.E.
Parishioners worship at Emanuel A.M.E. Church four days after the mass shooting.
Replace White Supremacist
Statue At Georgia Capitol
GEORGIA ---The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., one of the country’s most lauded cit- izens, will be finally honored by his home state with a sculpture on its capitol grounds.
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal and Rep. Calvin Smyre (D- Columbus) announced this week that the state has selected artist Andy Davis to create the piece. The sculpture will be placed on the northeast quad- rant of the Capitol grounds overlooking Liberty Plaza, re- placing a likeness of 19th cen- tury politician and newspaperman Tom Watson, a white supremacist.
The new statue will be built with private money. Its final cost has not yet been deter- mined, though estimates amount to $350,000. Rep.
This is the statute on the U.S. mall in Washington, D.C.
Smyre, an African-American, said it was important that they chose a Georgian to do the piece. Lei Yixin, a Master sculptor from China, did King’s Memorial on the U.S. mall in 2011.
CHARLESTON, S.C. --- A $3 million scholarship fund set up in the name of State Senator the Rev. Clementa Pinckney was announced Thursday in Charleston, S.C., scene of the horrific mass shooting that claimed the lives of nine parish- ioners at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Anonymous donors have now come forward to announce a scholarship fund for the mem- bers of the extended Mother Emanuel AME Church commu- nity. The donors have commit- ted in excess of $3 million to the Reverend Pinckney Scholarship Fund, a non-profit corporation
registered in the State of South Carolina.
The Fund will provide college and advanced degree scholar- ships for members of the ex- tended Mother Emanuel AME Church community including the families of the victims of the June 17, 2015 tragedy.
Anyone wishing to make tax- deductible contributions to the Fund may send it to: Rev- erend Pinckney Scholarship Fund, c/o The Mayor’s Office, City of Charleston, Post Office Box 304, Charleston, SC, 29402.Contributions may also be made online at: www.pinck- neyfund.org
Texas Couple Find Truck Spray Painted With KKK
HOUSTON, TX --- A white Texas couple who were hosting their Black friend over the holi- day weekend awoke to find their truck covered in racist graffiti and hateful pictures.
Darren and Hayli Franke were horrified and humiliated on Friday morning when the sun rose over their white pickup to reveal it spray-painted in the letters 'KKK' as well as vulgar messages and pictures.
'My Black friend, he's been here for two days,' Darren told KHOU. 'Me and him hung out in the yard and just mowed the grass and hanging out around the house. We woke up this morning and he goes, 'Man you need to go look at your truck!''
Neighbors in the ethnically diverse neighborhood pitched in to help scrub the messages away.
Violence In Chicago Leaves Boy, 7, Dead; 27 Wounded
All the messages but one. The Frankes left behind one word as a message to the vandals: 'Love.'
However, the couple remains extremely concerned and says they've sent their son to stay with family elsewhere and will be installing a surveillance cam- era.'We won't be spending the night here,' the couple said.
CHICAGO, IL -- After a rel- atively quiet start to the Fourth of July weekend in Chicago, a burst of gun violence overnight left three dead and 27 people wounded in just eight hours, in- cluding a 7-year-old boy killed after returning from a celebra- tion.
Thirty people were shot across Chicago, three of them fatally, including Amari Brown.
Amari had been with his fa- ther in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the West Side after spending the day at his grandmother's house for a July Fourth celebration. Someone opened fire Saturday, hitting the 7-year-old boy in the right
Amari Brown was killed on July 4th.
side of the chest and wounding a 26-year-old woman.
Both Amari and the woman were taken to Stroger Hospital, police said.
Boko Haram Caps Off Week Of Violence With Church Bombing
POTISKUM, NIGERIA -- At least five worshippers were killed in Sunday's attack as they were entering the church in Potiskum in the north-east of the country.
The Islamist extremists of Boko Haram have carried out a six-year campaign of violence in Nigeria's northeast.
The recent attacks have brought condemnation from Nigeria's president.
Muhammadu Buhari, speaking on Friday, described as a "heinous atrocity" the latest wave of violence.
The recent attacks include:
Friday: several suicide bombers kill large numbers in Zabarmari village
Thursday: two female suicide bombers attack another village in Borno state
Wednesday: more than 50 gunmen kill 97 people in the vil- lage of Kukawa, near Lake Chad
Tuesday: 48 men shot dead after prayers in two villages near
Police Probe ‘Enjoy Your Ride’ Sign Inside Transport Van
The Redeemed Christian Church of God was bombed.
Just months after Baltimore resident Freddie Gray was fa- tally injured while being trans- ported in the back of a police van, city officials are investigat- ing a photograph of a sign inside the rear door of a similar trans- port vehicle that reads, “Enjoy your ride, cuz we sure will,” CNN reports.
The image has emerged amid smoldering tensions over Gray’s death from the injury he suf- fered in police custody. His death ignited fiery protests in Baltimore over allegations of police brutality against blacks.
Baltimore police Sgt. Jar- ron Jackson quickly con- demned the sign, which came to light Thursday.
the town of Monguno
Sunday's attack was carried
out at the Redeemed Christian Church of God on the outskirts of Potiskum in Yobe state.
Witnesses and the police say that the pastor, a woman and her two children were among those killed.
Boko Haram took control of a large area of north-eastern Nigeria last year and declared a caliphate (a state governed in ac-
cordance with Islamic law). However, Nigeria's military, backed by troops from neighbor- ing countries, has recaptured
most of the territory.
In an effort to counter the
growing violence, Nigeria is leading a military effort with neighbor, ring countries. Mr. Buhari, Nigeria’s president has called for the regional military force to be deployed more rap- idly.
Baltimore Police van with sign inside door.
“The nature and the posting of the wording is both concern- ing and unacceptable,” Jack- son said, according to CNN.
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