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MOVE custody dispute turns deadly
PHILADELPHIA—Melancholy hangs over the MOVE
compound like a heavy cloud as a custody dispute has spiraled into a
homicide investigation.
N.Y. Fire Dept. wants more Black recruits
NEW YORK—The New York City Fire Department
extended the deadline for applying to take the written exam to Oct. 31
because the goal of recruiting more "minorities" has not been met,
according to Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta. The written exam is
open to people between the ages of 17-29.
Benin seeks forgiveness for role in slave
trade
WASHINGTON (NNPA)—In an unprecedented move, Cyrille Oguin,
ambassador to the United States from the African Republic of Benin, has
admitted his country’s part in the trans-Atlantic slave trade that
peddled millions of Africans over 300 years, and is seeking
reconciliation and forgiveness.
Blacks to meet in Barbados as follow-up to UN racism
meeting
NEW YORK—Africans from around
the globe were preparing to meet in Bridgetown, Barbados, at Final Call
press time, as a follow-up to the 2001 United Nations World Conference on
Racism (WCAR) held in Durban, South Africa.
Seattle outraged over 'justified' cop
shooting of Black man
Black Seattle residents, up in arms over the
latest ruling that the death of a Black man at the hands of a White
police officer was justified, took to the streets again Sept. 29 in
protest.
Family sues sorority over death of AKA
pledge
LOS ANGELES—The family of Kristin High, one of two California
State Los Angeles students who died in early September, has filed a $100
million wrongful death lawsuit against Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority,
charging that the organization was responsible for her death at
Dockweiler State Beach.
Inmate visit denials called unlawful by
attorneys
LANCASTER, Calif. (NNPA)—Attorneys for the NAACP Legal Defense
& Educational Fund are calling a month-long denial of visitors for Black
inmates "totally unconstitutional."
Congress hears the power of hip hop
WASHINGTON—Put charismatic congresswoman Maxine
Waters (D-Calif.), hip hop guru Russell Simmons (founder, Def Jam
Records), Master P. (New No Limit/Universal Records), Sylvia Rhone
(chairman and CEO, Elecktra Entertainment Group), Andre Harrell (Uptown
Records), rapper Dougie E. Fresh and actor Wesley Snipes in the same
room and you’ve got a creative force that could help produce global
economic and social change.
Hampton U. opens School of Journalism
Hampton University and the Scripps Howard
Foundation have created their own answer to the continuing decline in
the number of Black journalists in the industry with the Sept. 25
opening of the Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications on
Hampton’s seaside campus in Virginia.
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