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Man Who Said He Was Delivered From Being Gay Attacked
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Assassination Of Malcolm X
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FLORISSANT, MO -- An- drew Caldwell, who became a viral video sensation after his famous “I’m not gay no more, I am delivered” speech at the COGIC conference last year, is in the news again. This time he was the victim of a hate crime in Florissant, Missouri.
Caldwell posted pictures to his Facebook account of the aftermath of a violent unpro- voked assault in a strip mall parking lot. Two unidentified men walked up to him and punched him in the face. After the assault, the men fled in a black automobile while taunt- ing him with anti-gay slurs. As the men drove away they shouted, “I’m not gay no more!”
Caldwell wrote: “Ever since I talked about my deliverance
Saturday marked a tragic day in the history of the Black struggle. It was the 50th an- niversary of the assassination of El-Hajj-Malik El- Shabazz, commonly known as Malcolm X. His assassina- tion at the hands of four killers in the Audubon Ballroom lo- cated in Harlem, New York, on Feb. 21, 1965, sent shock waves throughout the world and marked a turning point in the revolutionary struggle of Blacks in America.
Much is known about Mal- colm X from the book The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to author Alex Haley as well as the 1992 movie Malcolm X by Spike Lee. It is a fact that Malcolm’s life is more pertinent to the plight of not only Black Amer- ica, but specifically to the struggle of the Black man in America today. From his days as a street hustler known as Detroit Red, aka Malcolm Little, to his conversion in prison to Islam, it is a tale of overcoming obstacles. The life of Malcolm X was forever changed by the teachings of the Hon. Elijah Muham- mad and the Nation of Islam.
Through Islam, Malcolm X found his center of spirituality and a blueprint to escape the ghetto and its traps, which any Black person can follow. Be- yond his religious conversion was his ability to unite and be- come a formidable source of power as he led his followers.
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well-known for his stance on self-defense as opposed to nonviolent resistance, it was widely believed by many that he was anti-White as opposed to being just pro-Black. How- ever, this stance was instru- mental in the progression of the Civil Rights Movement under Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The White power structure realized that it would have to deal with King and his philos- ophy of nonviolence or deal with a radicalized Black popu- lation. It is a fact that Mal- colm X communicated to Dr. King and even offered assis- tance when Blacks were being brutalized by the KKK in St. Augustine, Florida; a place that Dr. King called the most racist city in America. A West- ern Union Telegram to Dr. King from Malcolm X ex- pressed the lengths to which he was committed.
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BLOOMINGTON, MN --- Se- curity was tightened at the Mall of America on Sunday after it was referenced in a video re- leased by a Somali militant group. Locals reacted to the news with a mix of emotions
The video from Al Shabaab purportedly shows the terror group calling for an attack on Mall of America, in Blooming- ton, Minn.
The mall is one of three sim- ilar targets the terror group specifically names, including West Edmonton Mall in Canada and the Oxford Street shopping area in London.
The video purportedly shows 6 minutes of graphic images and the terrorists celebrating the 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya, that killed more than 60 people.
The narrator, his face wrapped in a black-and-white kaffiyeh-type scarf and wearing a camouflage jacket, spoke with a British accent and appeared to be of Somali origin. He ac- cused Kenyan troops in Soma- lia of committing abuses against Somali Muslims.
He ended the video by calling on Muslim men to attack other shopping malls in Western countries.
An image of the Mall of America is shown in the video, alongside its GPS coordinates. The mall says it is ramping up its security in response.
Al Shabaab, Somalia's Is- lamic extremist rebels, claimed responsibility for a Friday at- tack on a hotel in Somalia's capital that killed 25 people and wounded 40.
The group, designated as a terrorist organization by the State Department in 2008, has close ties to Al Qaeda through its senior leaders. It has at- tracted several radical volun- teers from Minneapolis and Americans began traveling to Somalia in 2007 to join the group.
A bloody Andrew Caldwell
from the sin of homosexuality, I have been receiving threat- ening messages by email and social media. I fear for my life. I have been physically and ver- bally attacked. I feel that I will have to do whatever it takes to protect myself.”
NAACP Bombing Suspect Arrested
Walmart, the frequent focus of advocates for low-wage workers, is giving its lowest- paid workers a raise. This is good news to the East Tampa community, since a new Wal- mart will open soon.
The company said 500,000 full-time and part-time associ- ates, more than a third of its work force at Walmart U.S. stores and Sam's Clubs, will re- ceive pay raises in April to at least $9 an hour.
By next February 1, their pay will go to at least $10 an hour. The company said workers will also have more control over their schedules, but it declined to give details of those changes. And it said it would invest more in training to give entry-level workers greater chance for promotion and other career advancement.
The wage scale and other im- provement in work conditions will cost the company about $1 billion in this fiscal year.
Walmart's pay and employ- ment policies have been the focus of protest by some work- ers and outside labor groups seeking to organize Walmart employees. Black Friday pro-
testers last year were demand- ing a $15 an hour pay mini- mum across the company. Once the company's starting pay becomes $9 an hour in April, the average pay for full- time retail workers there will be about $13 an hour. Wal- mart has previously said that average already stands at $12.94 an hour.
The average part-time wage will be about $10 an hour, ac- cording to Carol Schu- macher, vice president of investor relations for the com- pany. Roughly half of its em- ployees are part-time workers.
President Obama has pro- posed raising the federal min- imum to $10.10 an hour, but Republicans in Congress have so far blocked those efforts. But many states have gone ahead and raised their own state minimum wage rates, ei- ther by action of the legislature or voter initiative.
"We're not taking a position on what the government does," said Schumacher. "But any time any company, whether it's us or someone else, raises wages, it's a help for the economy."
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO - - Federal law enforcement agents have made an arrest in the investigation of the bomb- ing of a Colorado NAACP of- fice earlier this year. Thaddeus Murphy, 44, from Colorado Springs was ar- rested by law enforcement this past Thursday.
The bombing occurred in early January and caused an increase in racial tension as many considered the inci- dent an act of domestic terror- ism. According to law enforcement, Murphy made the pipe bomb out of a shotgun shell and fireworks fuses, and placed it next to a gasoline can. The bomb went off but did not ignite the gas, causing minimal damage to the building. Mur- phy allegedly has confessed to the crime but claims his target was actually a tax preparer’s office. According to Murphy, he was having a financial crisis and he blamed the accountant
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at the office for withholding documents. However, this seems a convenient alibi since the accountant’s office has been closed for 20 years even though the sign is still on the building.
By saying he targeted the tax office and not the NAACP, Murphy may avoid being charged with a hate crime and domestic terrorism. Murphy has been charged with arson of a building and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Walmart Raises Pay For Lowest Paid Workers; Other Corporations Under Fire
Walmart in Miami
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