JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (AP)—Authorities say they are charging a North Carolina woman who slept as a pit bull chewed the toes off her 4-month-old baby’s left foot. The Onslow County Sheriff’s Office said Monday that the child’s mother, Robie Lynn Jenkins, and her boyfriend, Tremayne Spillman, will be charged with felony child abuse.
ASHINGTON (NNPA)—Grandmothers have long been the safety net for parents who are either unable or unwilling to take care of their own children. Social workers refer to families in which grandparents raise their grandchildren instead of the parents as “skipped-generation” households. Grandma stands in for mom—or grandfather for dad. Or, often, one as both.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)—The son of the pastor who was brutally killed inside her Oklahoma church says her funeral will be another chance for his mother to spread the word of God.Services for 61-year-old Carol Daniels were held Aug. 31. in Oklahoma City. Daniels’ mutilated body was discovered Aug. 23 at her small Pentecostal church in Anadarko. PASTOR SLAIN—This undated photo shows Carol Daniels of Oklahoma City. Daniels, pastor of Christ Holy Sanctified Church in Anadarko, was discovered Aug. 23, inside the church in what the local district attorney described as the “most horrific crime scene I’ve ever witnessed.”
En Vogue was the closing act in a two hour, Aug. 30, TV One special that included the best of the Essence Music Festival held in New Orleans. The three day even featured some of the biggest names in Black music. To name a few; Beyonce, Al Green, Pattie LaBelle, Lionel Richie, Anita Baker, John Legend, MAZE, Maxwell, Salt & Papa, Charlie Wilson, Teena Marie, Jazmine Sullivan, EnVogue, Eric Benet, Ledisi, Robin Thicke, Ne-Yo, Sharon Jones, Solange, Janelle Monae, Rachael Saadig, Lalah Hathaway, Melanie Fiona, Sierra Leaon’s all star Reggae Band, and Blind Boys from Alabama. EN VOGUE
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (PRNewswire)—B&C Records in conjunction with Malaco Records announced the upcoming release of “Still,” the highly anticipated and eagerly awaited new studio album from the platinum-selling chart-topping award-winning gospel duo of BeBe and CeCe Winans. “Still” will be available online and in stores Oct. 6. BEBE AND CECE WINANS
For better or worse, for richer or poorer… Have you ever said those words while standing with your beloved in front of a bunch of your friends and family? If you did, you undoubtedly meant them with all your heart, intending to love and be faithful to your beloved forever. But forever is a long time and some days, “worse” overtakes “better” and you feel poorer for what you promised.
Thursday Jazz jamCJ’s Restaurant & Lounge presents “The Roger Humphries & RH Factor Jazz Jam Session” at 8 p.m. at 2901-2911 Penn Ave., Strip District. There will be live jazz and fun every Thursday night. Must be 30-years or older and there is a dress code that will be enforced. No tennis shoes, sweats or athletic gear. For more information, call 412-642-2377.
For the Week of Aug. 27-Sept. 2 August 27 1963—African American activist and intellectual giant W.E.B. DuBois dies in Accra, Ghana, at the age of 95. Born in Great Barrington, Mass., DuBois was one of the most dominant figures in the African-American struggle against racial oppression for nearly 40 years. He helped found the Niagara Movement (precursor to the NAACP) in 1906 and helped organize the first Pan-African Conference in London. An educational product of Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., he also taught at Atlanta University in Atlanta, Ga. and edited the NAACP’s Crisis magazine. DuBois was a major opponent of Booker T. Washington’s grand “compromise” with Whites and he argued frequently with Marcus Garvey’s Black separatist ideology. However, the “attacker of injustice and defender of freedom” would eventually become frustrated with the slow, legalistic tactics of the NAACP and the tenacity of American racism. He turned to socialism and late in life went into self-imposed exile in the West African nation of Ghana. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would write of him: “History cannot ignore W.E.B. DuBois because history has to reflect the truth and Dr. DuBois was a tireless explorer of the truth.” W.E.B. DUBOIS
(Part one of an eight-part series) WASHINGTON (NNPA)—In communities around the country, Black people are missing. Neighborhoods languish. Dreams deferred rot in distant warehouses we call prisons. The similarities between the correctional system and slavery are eerie: Families ripped apart. Traditions lost or never made. The shipment of flesh, the pipeline that nearly guarantees Black children go from the cradle to the prison; the insane profits made by warehousing human beings; the burden borne forever by those labeled as “convicts.”
WASHINGTON (NNPA)—This week marks the 46th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on Aug. 28, 1963. Nearly a half century since the march that drew more than 200,000 to Washington, D.C., Black activists confess they have changed their strategy in the wake of an African-American president, but they contend that their commitment remains the same. “I think that some leaders are now reluctant to engage in public struggle because President Barack Obama is in the White House. But I would remind you that a public demonstration for justice would not be a march on the president. That would be unfair,” said Rev. Jesse Jackson, president and CEO of the Chicago-based Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. “We supported Kennedy over Nixon, but we still had the March on Washington. We supported Johnson over Goldwater, but we still had the march on Selma.” DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. AT THE 1963 MARCH ON WASHINGTON
