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Zion Harvey Is First Successful Hand Transplant Recipient
Jewish Community In New York Holds ‘Black Lives Matter’ Rally
NEW YORK, NY — New York’s Jewish community are also concerned about the lives of African Americans. An or- ganization called Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) recently marched and rallied in the name of Black Lives Matter in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood. The organization was not being sar- castic either. They reportedly held a very serious, but peace- ful rally protesting about police violence against people of color during which they demanded police accountability.
Yehudah Webster, a member of JFREJ and the leader of another group called Jews of Color, said, “Even though we are angry at the in- justice of police brutality, we gather here for love, for lost brothers and sisters, our com- munities and each other.”
Report: Boyfriend Told Child, 2, To Put Up Fist Before Beating Him To Death
Zachary Tricoche punched girlfriend’s son, Jamil Baskerville, Jr. to death.
PHILADELPHIA, PA -- A year after doctors at Penn Medicine and Children’s Hos- pital of Philadelphia per- formed the first double hand transplant on Zion Harvey of Baltimore, the now 9-year-old can write his name, throw a football and grab his mother’s hand. The moments are brand new for Zion after he lost his hands and feet to an acute case of staph infection at the age of two.
In an interview with People, Harvey and his mother Pat- tie Ray share the journey that has allowed Zion to be just like any other kid. “Now I can play soccer and I can play foot- ball and I can play all these other sports and they can’t iso- late me out anymore,” Zion said. After thanking the doc- tors for performing the
ZION HARVEY
groundbreaking surgery, he thanked the parents of the donor who helped make the surgery a reality. “
A New Jersey man has been arraigned on murder charges after allegedly punching his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son to death, CBS Philadelphia re- ports.
According to the report, 24- year-old Zachary Tricoche got into a fight with his girl- friend because she didn’t buy groceries he liked. During the fight the little boy, identified as Jamil Baskerville Jr., re- portedly became upset after Tricoche pushed his mother, the Associated Press reports.
cates, told the 2-year-old to “put up his hands” to fight.
Jamil’s mom told detec- tives that Tricoche punched the little boy so hard in the chest that he flew into a wall, CBS reports. The child got up, and Tricoche punched him in the chest another time so hard that the child once again flew into the wall and was knocked unconscious, authorities said.
The mother called 911 around 11:30 p.m. Saturday to report that the child had vom- ited before becoming unre- sponsive.
Neighbors Shield Boy, 10, After Police Chased Him With Guns Drawn
Tricoche, the report indi-
Authors Band Together To Save
NEWARK, NJ --- A Newark, NJ mother is still mortified from the irresponsi- ble actions of the local police department after officers chased her 10 year old son be- lieving he was a wanted armed robber.
“When I think about my child staring at the end of a gun,” PaTisha Solomon, 30, told the Daily News. “One wrong move, and my child wouldn’t be here right now. My son could have tripped. He could have reached for a toy. They could have done any- thing to my son and it could have been his fault.”
According to Solomon, her son Legend Preston was playing basketball near a garage on Stuyvesant Avenue with some friends when he no- ticed a few officers staring at him. Scared, Legend ran.
“I was scared for my life,” Legend said. “I was thinking that they were going to shoot me.”
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Thankfully, neighbors inter- vened and created a human wall between Legend and po- lice. As they screamed “He’s a boy!” Police countered with “He fits the description.” The description Newark police re- ferred to was that of 20-year- old Casey Joseph Robinson who from a mugshot also has dredlocks and facial hair, compared to Legend’s tapered cut and bare face. Robinson was cap- tured on the next block.
‘White Lives
Langston Hughes’ Home In Harlem
NY authors
Matter’ Rally
Held In Texas
HARLEM, NY --- Gentrifica- tion is a many-headed beast, and now that beast may be coming to devour the former home of Langston Hughes – one of the great pioneers of the Harlem Renaissance.
However, Renée Watson, a local writer who lives near the home, is trying to prevent that from happening. Watson has launched a fundraising cam- paign in hopes of raising $150,000 to rent the place and turn it into a cultural center.
As of today, the initiative has raised a little over $26,000.
Watson also launched I, Too, Arts Collective (named in honor of Hughes’ poem I, Too, Sing America), a non- profit whose first major goal is to lease the apartment and “provide a space for emerging and established artists in Harlem to create, connect, and showcase work.”
Watson reached out to other writers once she learned of the possible fate of Langston Hughes’ home.
HOUSTON, TX --- A small crowd of protesters gathered outside of the NAACP office headquarters in Houston Sun- day. The group called for equal- ity as they made their message loud and clear with three bold words: "White Lives Matter".
Carrying signs, guns and Con- federate flags, the demonstra- tors simply wanted everyone to know "White Lives Matter".
"We came here because the NAACP headquarters is here and that's one of the most racist groups in America," Scott Lacy told a local news station.
LANGSTON HUGHES
.... poet, social activist, novel- ist, playwright and one of the earliest innovators of the then- new literary art form called jazz poetry.
Old brownstones in the area are being torn down to make room for more modern build- ings at an alarming rate. There is fear that the money won’t be raised in enough time, but “the current owner has agreed to hold off on selling to see how the project unfolds,” CNN Money reports.
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