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National
Mom Accepts Diploma Of
Black Chiropractors’ Convention
Set For Atlanta
ATLANTA, GA — The 34th Annual American Black Chi- ropractic Association Conven- tion (ABCA) National Convention will be held at Life University in Atlanta, GA on June 25-27, 2015.
All current and future DCs (Doctors of Chiropractic) and friends are invited to attend this awesome weekend of chi- ropractic.
In previous years, hun- dreds of African American chiropractics have attended and benefited from the unique networking opportunities and powerful seminars.
The ABCA was founded in 1981 by Dr. Bobby West- brooks, a practicing Chiro- practor in St. Louis, Missouri, who had a vision to empower African American doctors and students in chiropractic.
Bruce Jenner: Call Me Caitlyn Cover Breaks Internet
Olympic Gold Medalist Bruce Jenner has completed his transi- tion to Caitlyn Jenner.
Vanity Fair released the highly anticipated cover story of Bruce Jenner’s gender transition with the cover line “Call Me Caitlyn.”
The 22-page spread, with photos by acclaimed photog- rapher Annie Leibovitz and story by Buzz Bissinger, im- mediately set Twitter ablaze— and upstaged the news that Jenner’s former stepdaugh- ter, Kim, is having a second child with Kanye West.
Homeless Teen Mom Is
HS QB Killed On Prom Night
Valedictorian Of Class;
CALAMUT CITY, IL --- Katherine Jackson, the mother of Aaron Dunigan, recently accepted a diploma from Thornton Fractional North High School on behalf of her son who was killed in a tragic car accident the night of his prom.
Jackson, dressed in a full cap and gown, received a full applause as she coura- geously walked across the stage during the class of 2015 graduation.
Her son, Aaron Duni- gan, was an 18-year quarter- back on the school’s football team. After graduation, he was hoping to play college football at Southern Illinois University.
He reportedly was riding with two classmates when the driver, who had been
Offered $600K In Scholarships
Katherine Jackson with her son, Aaron Dunigan (left). Katherine receiving her son’s diploma.
drinking, veered into traffic in an oncoming lane, and col- lided with a Dodge pickup truck. Dunigan was killed, as was the driver of the truck, Juan Rivera, who was on his way to work.
Meanwhile, the driver of the car, 18-year old David Peden has been charged with DUI causing death and reckless homicide with a motor vehicle.
Trameka Pope, a Chicago high school senior, gave birth to a baby girl the summer after eighth grade and decided then that she wasn't going to become a sta- tistic.
Now she has more than 26 college-acceptance letters and has been awarded more than $600,000 in scholarships, People magazine reports.
Pope said that at one point during her struggles, she and her family were homeless. But that didn't stop Pope. She was a cheerleader, worked at a grocery store and is a member of the National Honor Society. She is also the valedictorian of the gradu- ating class at Chicago's Wen- dell Phillips High School, and she has already taken college- preparatory courses at a local college.
"I didn't give up. I pushed myself hard. And my baby motivated me every day be- cause I wanted to provide for
Trameka Pope was offered more than $600,000 in scholar- ships for college.
her and I also didn't want to be a statistic," Pope said.
Pope's school counselors helped her apply to college, and staff members from the Chicago Public Schools took her on college tours. Her so- cial worker, Dawn Jackson, described Pope as an exam- ple of how teen parents can persevere and still do incredi- bly well in school if they put in the effort and are helped. Pope plans to attend West- ern Illinois University and hopes to get her Ph.D. in so- cial work.
Reporter Killed In Community She Loved
ATL Organization Plans Summer Workshops For Teens On How To Interact With Police
Orrin Hudson (far left) teaches teens survival through the game of chess.
WASHINGTON, DC --- A 27-year-old African Ameri- can reporter who committed herself to covering the black- est, most neglected portion of the District of Columbia was shot to death last Wednesday night when, police said, she was used as a human shield in an exchange of gunfire by two groups of dirt bike riders.
Charnice Milton, who lived east of the Anacostia River, the area she covered, was a contributor to Capital Community News and a graduate of Ball State and the S.I. Newhouse School of Pub- lic Communications at Syra- cuse University. She was shot as she walked on one of the area's major streets to trans- fer buses. Milton had cov- ered the monthly meeting of a community advisory com- mittee.
"At 9:28, she texted me
CHARNICE MILTON
and said, 'I'm on my way home',” the victim's mother, Francine Milton, said," Derrick Ward and An- drea Swalec reported Fri- day for Washington's WRC-TV, the NBC-owned and -operated station. 'So, I was waiting for her to text me back and let me know if she needed me to pick her up, if she needed us, where she was. And we never got that text last night.' . . ." Their daughter was rushed to a hospital, where she died.
NATIONWIDE — Orrin Hudson, founder of Atlanta- based non-profit organiza- tion, Be Someone, says he is on a mission to teach teens how to survive police brutality and how to best interact with law enforcement officers.
Via his online fundraising campaign, he is currently rais- ing funds to bring his “Police Brutality Survival” workshops to Baltimore, Ferguson, At- lanta, and potentially other cities.
Hudson is a chess cham- pion, and will use the game of chess in his free-to-the-public summer camps to teach teens how to think ahead before making decisions. The camp will tackle the very delicate issue of police brutality sur- vival, the do’s and don’ts of safe police/citizen interaction, critical thinking to forecast the consequences of actions, and so much more.
Other topics to be ad- dressed during the summer camp are:
- How to think like a champion.
- How to communicate effectively.
- How to conduct yourself. - How to dress like a
prospect not a suspect.
- How to stay alive.
- How to thrive.
- How to be an asset, not a
liability.
Hudson recently said,
“The young people of Balti- more are not thugs. They are potential champions. I know because I was once in a gang and called a thug.”
He continued, “One thing that strikes me is that while many people have a lot to say, most do not offer solutions. Most don’t have any idea how to fix the underlying prob- lems. It takes a very special person – one who can see the world through both the offi- cer’s eyes, and the at-risk youth’s eyes.”
On Saturday, Hudson kicked-off his first summer camp in Atlanta.
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