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FBI Offers $5,000 Reward For Suspects Targeting Black Churches
Fox Is At It Again: Don’t Believe The Hype ‘Black Lives Matter’ Co-Creator Is Not Taking Job At Yale
DERAY MCKESSON ...co-creator of Black Lives Matter organization
The headlines may say that activist DeRay Mckesson was offered a teaching position at Yale; they may say he’s getting paid $40,000 for it—but don’t believe the hype.
Mckesson, best known for his prolific voice on race and black liberation on Twitter and his work as an outspoken ac- tivist, is not Yale’s newest pro- fessor. He’s a guest speaker as part of the Yale Divinity School’s lecture series on “transforma- tional leadership.”
The Root spoke with Mckesson last Thursday, and he clarifies that despite what Fox News says, he didn’t land a teaching gig, and despite the ru- mors going around on Twitter, he’s not getting paid anything near $40,000 for it.
Calling the $40,000 rumor “absurd,” Mckesson says, “People are thinking I’m like a tenured professor. I'm not.”
Instead, Mckesson will be giving two lectures as part of a two-day course, worth one course credit, about the styles of leadership he has seen emerge in the larger social-justice move- ment.
“I’ve stood with protesters in almost 20 cities; I’ve been to, at this point, hundreds of protests and seen such incredible styles of leading and organizing emerge in so many communi- ties,” Mckesson says. “I’ll talk about the different styles of lead- ing and organizing that has emerged. And also the space around digital organizing that has opened in the movement.
“The very notion of commu- nity is being redefined in this moment,” he adds. “The public space is getting broader, and as the public space gets broader, the discourse changes. And when the discourse changes, we also see people lead in those spaces differently. So I’ll be talk- ing about those things as well.”
Despite the controversy sur- rounding his guest-lecture spot at Yale, a lot positive is going on in Mckesson’s life at the mo- ment as he works with Cam- paign Zero, a law-enforcement reform platform tackling issues on the local, state and federal level surrounding policing and decriminalization. As part of Campaign Zero, Mckesson re- cently met with presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders and his campaign to discuss the plat- form.
MELBOURNE , FL --- The FBI is offering a $5,000 re- ward to anyone with informa- tion leading to the identificaiton of those who were involved in the vandal- ism of two Melbourne, Fla. churches Florida Today re- ports, one of which has a pre- dominantly Black congre- gation that was targeted three times with spray-painted swastikas and other messages.
The New Shiloh Christian Center was targeted in Febru- ary at one location on Sarno Road, before it was targeted again at the congregations University Boulevard site, the news site notes. The Central Baptist Church was also tar- geted by vandals.
New Shiloh Christian Center was targeted once more in July, at which point the case was classified as a "hate crime," after initially stating that the vandalism was likely the work of juveniles.
According to Florida Today, the Brevard County FBI office said that both churches were "victims of hate crimes, in-
Truck of pastor was found submerged in a pond with Charleston scratched on it.
cluding arson, burglary, grand theft and vandalism," in a statement on Monday.
One of the more chilling de- tails out of New Shiloh Chris- tian Center's case, was a message scrawled on the side of the truck belonging to the bishop, which was found sub- mered in the pond. "SS. Charleston 2" the graffiti read, most likely referring to the re- cent mass murder of nine peo- ple at the Emanuel AME in Charleston, S.C.
The vandals ended up cost- ing Shiloh some $5,000 in damages, according to the re- port.
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Louis Farrakhan how to curb the violence plaguing African-American communi- ties nationwide.
The leader of the Nation of Islam responded to Martin’s comment, saying, “Our com- munity has become a cesspool of filth, indecency, drugs, guns, unemployment, and it looks as though there are those that are in our community – not from our community – that take advantage of the so- cial engineering that has engi- neered our youth into a savage condition.”
Farrakhan recounted a conversation he had with Martin Luther King III, where he told the son of the late civil rights icon, “Your fa- ther taught us non-violence and he thought and believed that our non-violence and our love shown to White people who were always violent to- ward us would change their hearts — 50 years after Dr. King, and if you have his words, he said, ‘My dream that I talked about has now become a nightmare.”
“We have not changed the hearts of those who have mur- dered us outside of the law of justice. So what shall we do? We are now killing each other. We are raping and robbing and pillaging our own commu- nities. Our own communities are not safe — the elderly can’t walk the street — the children
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can’t play for being shot down by gang conflict,” he contin- ued.
“So I called for ... 10,000 fearless Black men, for who death is sweeter than contin- ued living under tyranny.”
The Justice Or Else march will take place on October 10, 2015 in Wash- ington, D.C. at the Na- tional Mall in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March.
For the 20th anniver- sary of the Million Man March, TV One will pres- ent a two-hour special on Friday, Oct. 9 from 8- 10 p.m. ET. Presented by News One Now host Roland S. Mar- tin, the special will feature the network television premiere of the documen- tary The Million Man March Story, followed by a News One Now prime- time roundtable discus- sion.
$1.1M Won’t Bring Their Son Back: But How He Died Has Changed The Culture Of Hazing
20th Anniversary of Million Man March:
Min. Louis Farrakhan Calls For
Black Men To Stop The Violence In Our Neighborhoods
TALLAHASSEE, FL --It won’t bring him back, how- ever, the family of Robert Champion, the Florida A&M University drum major killed in a hazing ritual, has settled a lawsuit against FAMU, accept- ing $1.1 million and an apology for his death.
In addition to the settle- ment, “the university will honor Champion by renam- ing the marching band’s anti- hazing program for the drum major and dedicating a com- memorative plaque in his memory in the band room on FAMU’s campus, the student union, or ‘The Patch,’ as the
ROBERT CHAMPION
orange traffic cone,” the report says. A medical examiner found that he died of soft-tis- sue bleeding caused by the beating he received from his colleagues, the Sentinel writes.
Champion’s parents, Pamela Champion and Robert Champion Sr., who run a foundation that opposes hazing in schools, bands and athletics, called the settlement a bittersweet victory.
“When our son, Robert, was killed, we vowed that we would do everything in our power to make sure that this didn’t happen to another fam- ily,” the Champions said. “We called Robert ‘the exam- ple,’ and the positive change that will come as a result of his death will ensure that he did not die in vain.”
band’s practice field known,” the report says.
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Champion, who was 26, died Nov. 19, 2011, after the hazing, which followed the band’s performance at the Cit- rus Bowl. The event was part of the Florida Classic weekend, an annual football game and band competition with FAMU rival Bethune-Cookman Uni- versity.
Champion was required to fight his way from the front of the parked bus to the back, pushing through “band mem- bers who blocked the aisle and punched, kicked and clubbed him with drum mallets and an
Boston Transit Officer Being Investigated After Beating Incident
BOSTON, MA-- An officer with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Po- lice Department has been placed on administrative duty pending an investigation after a video emerged of him beating a Black woman on a bus and pulling his firearm on wit- nesses recording the incident.
The now-viral video was up- loaded to Facebook by Nino Brown, an organizer for the group Mass Action Against Po- lice Brutality, last week. In the disturbing footage, taken in Roxbury last Friday, you can hear the 24-year-old organizer and others attempting to de-es- calate the situation by telling the officer to put his weapon down.
The woman, whose name has not been released, was ac- cused of stealing before the vi- olent encounter with the unidentified officer. Transit Po- lice Lieutenant Richard Sullivan refused to identify what the woman was accused of stealing, but did say the offi- cer felt threatened after he con-
fronted her on the bus and she threw rubbing alcohol in his face.
From there, the situation in- tensified. The video shows the officer beating the woman with a baton on the back of the bus as bystanders plead with him to stop. Others attempt to calm the woman after she appears to push the officer back to escape. When the officer pulls his weapon, witnesses tell him to drop the gun multiple times. A short while later, he holsters his weapon, but when backup arrives on the bus to arrest the woman, it appears that another gun is drawn
The woman was eventually charged with larceny.
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