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Photographer Who Took Iconic Photo Of Malcolm X Has Died
Eric Garner’s Daughter, 27, Suffers 2nd Heart Attack
NEW YORK — Erica Gar- ner, 27, daughter of Eric Garner—the 43-year-old Staten Island N.Y. man who was killed in 2014 when NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo re- strained him with an illegal chokehold—is in a coma after suffering a heart attack on Christmas Eve.
Erica, a mother of two, is reportedly unable to breath on her own, the NY Daily News reports.
Esaw Snipes-Garner, Erica’s mother and Eric Garner’s widow, said her daughter’s heart attack was brought on by a severe asthma attack. This is the second heart attack that the 27-year-old ac- tivist has suffered; the first one occurred after she gave birth in August to her son Eric, named after her father.
It was then that doctors discovered that Erica had an enlarged heart.
“[She] is still with us,” Snipes-Garner told the News. “She’s fighting. The doctor says she has a strong
Erica Garner is in critical condition in New York.
heart.”
Erica became a fierce op-
positional force against state- sanctioned violence after NYPD officer Daniel Panta- leo killed her 43-year-old fa- ther on July 17, 2014 by placing him in an illegal chokehold.
A few months after her fa- ther’s choking death at the hands of the NYPD, Erica staged a “die-in” on the same Staten Island N.Y. corner where Eric Garner took his last breath.
Don Hogan Charles shot the iconic photo of Malcolm X at a window with a rifle in the 1960s.
NEW YORK —- The first black staff photographer hired at the New York Times, Don Hogan Charles, the man who shot the iconic photo of Malcolm X at a window with a rifle, and a chronicler of black life and
emotion has died.
Former New York Times
staff writer Rachel Swarns tweeted the news on Sunday afternoon.
Charles was born in 1938.
Swarns linked off to an
2016 article on Charles from the Times which chronicled his amazing career shooting black people in our beautiful, amazing, humanity, espe- cially during the Civil Rights Movement, especially north of the Mason-Dixon line.
Grandmother And Granddaughter She Raised Graduate From College The Same Time
More Than Two Years After Man Was Shot Down In Front Of Church, Killers Face Judge
Amari Jenkins was killed in front of a church where he was taking classes to get a job. His mother’s grief made national news in 2015.
Amari Jenkins, 21, lay under a sheet on the front lawn of St. Luke Catholic Church on East Capitol Street in Washington, D. C. just past noon on a Tuesday in August in 2015. Police said two men wearing masks and blue latex gloves had rolled up in a blue Honda Odyssey, jumped out the side door and ran at Jenkins, shooting as they approached.
When Jenkins collapsed near a statue of Jesus, police said the gunmen stood over him and fired again. And again. And again. They counted 28 shots.
Now, more than two years
later, police said they have found the shooters.
Rondell McLeod, 24, and Joseph Antonio Brown, 27, each were charged with first-degree murder in the killing. Both suspects were already in jail awaiting trial in another killing, also in 2015.
The shootings were part of a local turf battle that would continue in the weeks after Jenkins died. Police have been able to piece together a deadly back and forth rivalry that led to at least three deaths. Jenkins’ shooting gained widespread attention given the time it occurred —
shortly after noon — and the location.
The raw emotion from the scene was compelling, but it was Jenkins’s mother, Maureen Althea Jenkins, whose public display of an- guish seemed a metaphor for a deadly year. Photos of her burying her head into D. C. Police Chief Lanier’s shoulder again appeared in the news after the arrests ear- lier this month.
On Dec. 15, the 42-year- old Jenkins was at the D.C. Superior Court building to watch McLeod and Brown face a judge for the first time in the case.
Belinda Berry and her granddaughter, Karea graduate from Chicago college together.
CHICAGO, IL — A grand- mother and her granddaugh- ter recently graduated from college–at the same time!
Belinda Berry, 62, and her 25-year-old granddaughter Karea Berry both received their degrees from Chicago State University.
Belinda received her de- gree in business administra- tion, while Karea received hers in criminal justice.
“We didn’t know we were going to finish together be- cause I was full-time and she was part-time. And it actually
just worked out that way. I just say it was God’s will,” Karea told FOX 32 Chicago.
What makes this moment even more special is that Be- linda raised Karea in their South Side apartment from the time she was just two years old.
Belinda stressed that she always made sure her grand- daughter understood the im- portance of an education. She also hopes her graduating sends the message that it’s “never too late” to go back to school.
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