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Powerball Jackpot Up To $1.3 Billion
Fire Set At Home Of Recently Released S. C. Cop That Shot Black Man
MICHAEL SLAGER
CHARLESTON, S.C. --- A small, suspicious fire broke out at the South Carolina home of a white former police officer who is charged with murder in the shooting death of an unarmed black man, local media re- ported on Saturday.
Vinyl siding was damaged at the home of former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager and an incen- diary device was found at the scene, authorities told the Post and Courier newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina.
Slager is accused of shoot- ing 50-year-old Walter Scott in the back as he ran away from the officer during a traffic stop in April 2015.
The fire at Slager's Hanahan home came hours after protests over the release of Slager ear- lier in the day.
A police official said that two people dressed in black were seen running away from the house and that an arson inves- tigation is underway.
Slager, 34, is under house arrest, according to an attorney for Scott's family, after being released from jail on $500,000 bail on Monday. It is unclear whether he was at the house at the time of the fire.
A small group of demonstra- tors clashed during a rally at North Charleston City Hall on Friday morning.
In a heated exchange during the morning demonstration, long-time activists encouraged non-violent protests, while some younger demonstrators hinted that it was time to "dis- turb the peace" and fight vio- lence with violence, according to the Post and Courier report.
Reality Docu-Series Will
Nobody won the Powerball jackpot this weekend.
Lottery officials say the esti- mated $1.3 billion prize is the world's largest. Ever.
The jackpot is so big that bill- boards in Texas and around the country have to advertise the price as $999 million because they're not built to show bil- lions. The lottery computers will handle the decimal point without a problem.
No one matched all six
Powerball numbers Saturday night, leading to the astronom- ical prize. And that is all but certain to grow before the next drawing Wednesday.
Saturday's winning numbers — 16-19-32-34-57 and Power- ball number of 13 — did gain some people a little wealth: 25 tickets won $1 million by matching five numbers, and three other tickets won $2 mil- lion because they paid extra to multiply smaller prizes.
With Detroit’s Ex-Mayor
Show Woman’s Struggle
Back After Scandalous Affair
Black Lives Matter
DETROIT, MI-- Before 2008, Christine Beatty, as the chief of staff to Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, was a celebrated strategist with a promising future in politics. That changed the morning the Detroit Free Press published the private, intimate text mes- sages that Beatty and Kil- patrick exchanged on their government-issued phones during their six-year extra- marital affair.
The fallout was brutal. The texts proved that Beatty had once lied under oath by deny- ing her affair with Kil- patrick. Beatty, a mother, was sentenced to 90 days in jail. In addition, she was mer- cilessly roasted in the press and by the public. And after the media smoke cleared and people moved on to drag someone else, Beatty still found herself branded with a scarlet A.
Nearly eight years after her
Christine Beatty will be fea- tured on new Centric reality docu-series.
very public downfall, Beatty is back in the spotlight—this time, on her own terms. She’s one of five women participat- ing in Centric’s new do- cuseries, From the Bottom Up, which follows the lives of Beatty and other women who are searching for redemption after experiencing a public fallout. Queen Latifah is ex- ecutive producer of the series.
Co-Founder Invited To
President Obama’s Last
State Of The Union Speech
Alicia Garza, one of the founders of Black LIves Mat- ter, will be the guest of Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) at President Obama's last State of the Union address on Tuesday. Garza is a con- stituent of Rep. Lee's. The Congresswoman is active on issues of poverty, civil rights and education.
"Looking forward to wel- coming #BlackLivesMatter co- creator, @aliciagarza, as my #SOTU guest. She's a powerful voice for justice and reform," tweeted Rep. Lee on Friday.
Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi began the Black Lives Matter movement in 2013 after
Alicia Garza was one of the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement.
George Zimmerman was acquitted of killing Trayvon Martin.
Black Online Marketplace Launches $100,000,000 Circulation Campaign
WASHINGTON, D.C. --An 23-year-old entrepreneur Sha- reef Abdul-Malik of Wash- ington, DC believes in doing for self. That’s why he created We- BuyBlack.com, an online mar- ketplace for black-owned businesses and sellers.
The website launched last year on June 19th, celebrating the 150 year anniversary of Juneteenth. Since its launch, the site has over 2,000 regis- tered businesses and sellers; more than 4,500 products up- loaded and have reached 500,000 page views.
In December, the site gar- nered over 105,000 page views, according to Abdul-Malik. There is no fee to upload a product to the site. Starting Feb. 1, the company will launch its largest campaign to circu- late $100,000,000 on the web- site through Feb. 1, 2017. African-Americans have a cur- rent buying power of $1 trillion which is forecasted to reach $1.3 trillion by year 2017, ac- cording to a report published by www.nielsen.com
Abdul-Malik, who is a
SHAREEF ABDUL-MALIK
Howard University graduate, says he’d been inspired by in- stitutions such as the Black Wall Street of Tulsa, Oklahoma that served the needs of the black community. For more in- formation about the site, visit www.WeBuyBlack.com or con- nect through social media at: Instagram – www.instagram.com/webuy- black/ Facebook – www.face- book.com/webuyblackcom.
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