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Teen Charged With Murdering Mother And Father Will Be Tried As An Adult
MONROE, LA —- Jaylon Sewell decided to dye his hair in the style of Odell Beckham Jr., the wide receiver for the New York Giants, and he was shocked when that fashion deci- sion was met with swift backlash at his school.
The 16-year-old, who is a good student and manager of the football team at Neville High School in Monroe, Louisiana, was allegedly barred from at- tending class because of his hair, according to the New York Daily News.
According to a complaint lodged by his family with the De- partment of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, he was discrim- inated against despite the fact that “white students with dyed hair were allowed to attend class.”
What’s more, the complaint alleges that the school district
Student That Copied ‘Odell Beckham’ Hairstyle Banned From School
First Black President
Of Federal Reserve Named
Raphael Bostic was a former policymaker for HUD.
Antonio ‘AJ’ Armstrong, Jr. will be tried as an adult in the 2016 murder of his mother and father, Antonio and Dawn Armstrong.
Jaylon Sewell and other Black students at his school have been targeted for their hairstyles.
HOUSTON, TX —- Texas teenager, Antonio Arm- strong Jr. is facing life in prison with the possibility of pa- role after 40 years, for allegedly shooting to death his former NFL player father, Antonio Armstrong Sr. and his mother, Dawn.
On last Wednesday, a Harris County judge ruled that Arm- strong will be tried as an adult.
Rick DeToto, Armstrong Jr.’s attorney, said that his client was “obviously disap- pointed” by the decision, how- ever they knew that it was a possibility for the 17-year-old.
“We’ve been telling him since the first time we met him that he could be tried as an adult based
on the offense and the court,” DeToto said, as reported by the Houston Chronicle.
DeToto also continues to maintain his client innocence, stressing the killings weren’t committed by the teenager, but by an unknown masked in- truder.
At the time of the murders, the police did find a gun and a note that read, “I have been watching you for some time.” But as we previously reported, officials be- lieve that was planted by Arm- strong Jr. in an attempt to cover up the crime.
In addition, nothing else in the home was out of place and there were no signs of a forced entry.
ATLANTA, GA - The Fed- eral Reserve made progress Monday in an area it has long struggled in: Diversity.
Raphael Bostic was named president of the At- lanta Federal Reserve, becom- ing the first African-American regional president in the cen- tral bank's history.
Bostic, a former policy- maker in the Department of Housing and Urban Develop- ment (HUD), is a professor at the University of Southern California.
He will become the Atlanta Fed's 15th president and takes office June 5. He will be on the Fed's powerful committee that determines interest rates.
Bostic will have a vote on the Fed's rotating committee in 2018.
Bostic was hired by the board of the Atlanta Federal Reserve. It's unclear how much influence Fed Chair Janet Yellen, who leads the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, had in the hiring process.
His appointment comes after Yellen was heavily criti- cized by congressional leaders last year for the central bank's lack of diversity.
About 82% of the Fed's most senior employees in Washington D.C. -- there are 231 of them -- are white, ac- cording to the most recent Fed data. There are only 17 high- level Black employees.
Last June, Democrats like
Senator Elizabeth Warren asked Yellen three times dur- ing her congressional testi- mony about the Fed's lack of diversity.
Yellen has repeatedly em- phasized that making the Fed more diverse is one of her top priorities. Bostic's appoint- ment was one step in that di- rection. He succeeds Dennis Lockhart, who was Atlanta Fed president for a decade.
retaliated against Jaylon by “suspending him, attempting to expel him, and barring him from participation on the NHS foot- ball team.”
They also alleged that Jay- lon and 20 other Black students have repeatedly been targeted and harassed for their hairstyles by school administrators who have even gone so far as to say that their hairstyles were “too nappy” in some cases.
An open investigation into the matter is still ongoing.
Facebook Founder Visits HBCU NC A&T
Film Released Of Mike Brown Inside Store Has Sparked New Protest In Ferguson
Micheal Brown was fatally shot in 2015 by a Ferguson police officer after leaving the store in question. The shooting was after the store owner claimed Brown robbed his store. Ferguson police used the rob- bery as a way to taint Brown’s character after he was fatally shot.
GREENSBORO, NC - Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Face- book, is on a tour of America. He says that he wants to “get out of my little bubble in San Francisco.” One supposes to learn about his customers and what life is like for normal peo- ple.
The Facebook founder vis- ited North Carolina A&T State University Monday to take part in a new town hall series sponsored by the school’s chancellor, speaking to 200 students about fake news, Is- lamophobia, community, cod- ing, and of course, diversity in tech.
“I don’t think it’s a secret that the tech community and industry has an issue with di- versity,” Zuckerberg said in answer to a student’s question about what the industry should do to help tech become more diverse.
“We have to do a better job,” the CEO asserted, but tempered that by saying, “I think it’s going to take a little while.”
To explain why having coders of color in Silicon Val- ley was going to take so much time, Zuckerberg said, “You can’t just expect that you’re going to have a normal recruit-
ing team go out and try to get folks and you’re magically going to solve a diversity prob- lem that we have.”
Zuckerberg continued, saying that Facebook makes every one of its managers en- roll in a course on unconscious bias; the CEO explained that he feels that “a lot of people who think they care about di- versity actually still have a lot of these biases.”
After stumbling a bit over his answer on diversity, Zuckerberg did receive ap- plause for his answer to a question on how he felt about Facebook Live being used as a check on police, “I feel great,” Zuckerberg said, “If we’re not going to give them body cameras, then we’ll give every- one a Live camera.”
FERGUSON, MO — A n e w l y disclosed surveillance video from the hours before a black man's death in Ferguson at the hands of police has trig- gered fresh protests.
A filmmaker has released the footage which he says shows Michael Brown did not rob a shop, as police claimed, but in- stead exchanged marijuana for cigars.
He says it contradicts video released by police showing Brown threatening the shop- keeper as he walks out with ci- gars.
The 18-year-old was moments later shot dead by a police offi-
cer.
However, the convenience
store maintains it was a robbery. Policeman Darren Wilson was cleared of wrongdoing by investigators, but the teenager's death in Ferguson, Missouri, led to violent protests and a national debate about lethal police force
against African Americans.
On Sunday night, 100 people gathered outside the shop after news emerged of the new video. The previously unreported footage shows Brown entering the Ferguson Market and Liquor around 01:00 on the day of his
death.
He approaches the counter
and hands over an item that ap- pears to be a brown bag, and in exchange takes a shopping bag
filled with cigars. After walking towards the door, he then turns around and returns the cigars to the counter before leaving.
Jason Pollock, the film- maker releasing the tape as part of his documentary, Stranger Fruit, says it proves that Brown had not been committing a strong-arm robbery when he re- turned to that store around noon later in the day.
In that encounter, he is seen shoving store owner Andy Patel before leaving with the ci- gars.
Video of Brown appearing to rob the shop was released by police to support their claim that he was stopped by police be- cause he was a suspect.
Mr. Pollock's film claims that the marijuana was ex- changed as part of a pre-negoti- ated deal, and that Brown had then decided to leave the cigars behind the shop counter for safekeeping.
"They destroyed Michael's character with the tape, and they didn't show us what actually happened," Mr. Pollock told the New York Times.
St. Louis County Prosecut- ing Attorney Robert McCul- loch called Pollock's assertions "just stupid" during a Monday afternoon news confer- ence.
"What this guy's putting out is just nonsense," he said.
Mark Zuckerberg visited NC A&T on Monday.
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