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| | As 54 people are shot and 10 killed over the weekend in Chicago,The Deborah Movement Organizes for Peace Bring The Deborah Movement to Your Community and Your City by Calling Dorothy at 773.285.9600 | | | Deborahs from the North Side of Chicago Organize for Peace Deborahs from the West Side of Chicago Organize for Peace Deborahs from the South Suburbs of Chicago Organize for Peace June 21, 2010
Sun-Times Media Wire Ten people were killed and at least 44 others were shot across the city Friday night into early Monday, including a baby girl who suffered a graze wound to the neck when gunfire erupted at a Near West Side barbecue. The latest victims were found naked, shot to death and lying face down on railroad property near West 91st Street and South Holland Road on the South Side about 8:50 a.m Monday, according to a Calumet Area sergeant. Both were shot at some point Sunday night. The victims, black males believed to be between 16 and 20, remained unidentified as of late Monday afternoon. On Monday, a 28-year-old man was found shot in the chest about 3 a.m. in the 7500 block of South Halsted Street near a South Side church, according to Gresham District police. A passing motorist found the man, identified as Credale Woulard of the 7700 block of South Ada Street, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office. He was dressed in women's clothing and was found lying dead on the sidewalk. In the South Side Englewood neighborhood, 44-year-old Darryl Dunn was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head in the 7200 block of South Marshfield Avenue at 2:02 a.m. Monday, authorities said. About 1:52 a.m. Monday, 25-year-old Larry Johnson, of the 14000 block of Park Avenue in Lansing, was shot in the 6400 block of South Ingleside Avenue in the South Side Woodlawn neighborhood. He died nearly two hours later at a hospital, police said. Durwin Hackman, 20, of the 3100 block of West 172nd Street in Hazel Crest, was killed in a shooting that also injured two others about 11:10 p.m. in the 700 block of West 111th Street in the Far South Side Roseland neighborhood. The three victims were involved in a verbal altercation over a female when other males began to shoot before fleeing the scene. Three men, two related, were found fatally shot in the West Side's Lawndale neighborhood early Saturday in what police consider gang-related slayings. The victims were 25-year-old Waseem Smith, 45-year-old Barry Smith and 28-year-old Leon Smith, according to the medical examiner's office. They were shot just after 3 a.m. in the 2300 block of South Springfield, police said. Police found two of the men in separate cars and the third lying on the street outside one of the cars. A 19-year-old man died Sunday night after being shot in the head Friday night in the 1800 block of West 87th Street, police said. Pierre York, of the 8600 block of South Wood Street, was walking down the street with a friend when they were confronted by a gunman, who fled after shooting York, police said. In addition to the homicides, at least 10 people were shot early Monday, including a baby girl and four men who were injured when gunfire erupted during an outside barbecue on the Near West Side early Monday. The shooting happened at 12:11 a.m. in the 1300 block of West Hastings Street, according to a Monroe District police lieutenant. Several people attending the barbecue heard shots fired and "everybody started running," the lieutenant said. One shot struck a 1-year-old girl, who suffered a graze wound to the neck. Four men were also shot, police said. One of the victims, a 34-year-old man, was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. The other three men suffered injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening. On Sunday, at least 11 people were injured in shootings, including a 16-year-old girl who was critically wounded when shots rang out during a fight on a South Side street. The girl was standing outside in the 1200 block of East 78th Street at 8:15 p.m. when several fights broke out and one person pulled out a handgun, according to a South Chicago District police captain. The girl was struck in the back and taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition. On an especially violent Saturday, at least 22 people were injured. That included five people hurt in four shootings in the West Side Humboldt Park neighborhood, just blocks from the annual Puerto Rican festival. And following Friday's violent storms, at least one person was injured in a shooting on the South Side.
___________________________________________________ 1) Friday, June 25, 2010 - Join The Deobrah Movement and the women from Hartzell Church, located at 3330 South King Drive, Chicago, Illinois as they walk the community around the church and share information about improving the community between 11:00 am and 1:00 pm. All Deborahs serving. 2) Saturday, June 26, 2010 - Join The Deborah Movement for So Fresh Saturdays, "Docs & Dialogue", at the P.E.A.C.E Center 6455 S. Peoria, 1pm-3:30pm. This is a film series of documentaries for youth. Children ages 12 +up are strongly encouraged to attend!! Deborah Aisaha Butler serving. 3) Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - Join The Deborah Movement as they listen to and learn from the sisters of the Black Panther Party. Several Black Panther sisters will share their experiences, philosophies and strategies for changing the world thin which we live at 3509 South King Drive, Suite 2B, Chicago, Illinois. This is open to all Deborahs and to all women. 4) Tuesday, July 6, 2010 - Attend the next meeting for the Deborah's South Suburban at Jack's Cuisine (Soul Food), 6:30 PM, 4033 West 183rd Street, Country Club Hills, Illinois with "Deborahs" Sandra Brown and Sister Afrika Porter serving. 5) Saturday, July 10, 2010 - Join The Deborah Movement as they usher for the event at Hartzell United Methodist Church at 3330 South King Drive, Chicago Illinois at 3:30 pm, where Professor Michelle Alexander will lecture on "The New Jim Crow - Mass Incarceation in the Age of Colorblindness." We need 25 Deborahs for service at this event. This is open to all Deborahs and to all women. Call Dorothy at 773.285.9600 for more information or to start a Deborah Branch in your community or in your city! | | The Black Star Project Is Calling On One Million Fathers and Men Across America and the World to Take their Children Back to School on the First Day this Coming School Year in 600 Cities There is no reason for the men in your city or your community or your home or your church not to participate in the education of children...except if you do not ask them to! Join the Million Father March 2010! | | To celebrate Fathers Day, you must see this video from Detroit, Michigan, of the Fathers Color Guard for the Million Father March 2009. Click Here!!! to be inspired by fathers of Detroit, Michigan. Credit to Stephen "Fuzzytek" Boyle for picture and video.  | To celebrate Fathers Day, you must see this video from San Bernardino, California, of fathers preparing for the Million Father March 2009. Click Here!!! to be inspired by men of San Bernardino, California. Credit to The Press-Enterprise  | To celebrate Fathers Day, you must see this video from Chicago, Illinois, of young fathers and students preparing for the Million Father March 2009. Click Here!!! to be inspired by these young people from Chicago, Illinois. Happy Fathers Day! Now it is your turn. The only thing that stands between the children of your community receiving an excellent education or not is your involvement, or lack of it, in their education. Will you join the Million Father March? It is easy! It does not take much time. It does not take much money. We give you everything you need to succeed. It only takes you wanting to make a difference in the lives of your children and children in your community. Please call Bruce at 773.285.9600 to register your city for the Million Father March 2010 and to get an organizing kit. You make also respond to blackstar1000@ameritech.net. | | The New Jim Crow:
Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness "Professor Alexander has brilliantly unraveled the mystery of the criminalization and destruction of young Black men in America over the past 40 years. The only way to fix it is to understand it. Now the question is will we protect her and will we support her?" Phillip Jackson The Black Star Project | | | Hartzell United Methodist Church, Afri-Ware Bookstore, Bronzeville Visitor Information Center and The Black Star Project are bringing Michelle Alexander to Chicago to lecture on her internationally acclaimed book, "The New Jim Crow." Professor Michelle Alexander  | Professor Michelle Alexander, one of the most dynamic new voices of the 21st century on issues of race, class and caste is coming to Chicago on Saturday, July 10, 2010, to explain how Black men in America have been returned to a kind of slavery! Please become a patron or a sponsor of this event that brings Ms. Alexander to Chicago. Saturday, July 10, 2010, 3:30 p.m.
Hartzell United Methodist Church
3330 South King Drive
Chicago, Illinois ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ While this event is free to the public, we are looking for six sponsors at $500.00 each and thirty patrons at $100.00 each to support this event. Sponsors and patrons will receive an autographed book by Michelle Alexander, an invitation to a special reception with Michelle Alexander, guaranteed and priority seating at the lecture, an "Educate or Die" or "Peace in the Hood" T-Shirt, acknowledgement in all written and electronic promotion of this event and other premiums from our hosts. This event is free. Please RSVP to 773.285.9600. Space is limited!!! Books will be available for purchase and autographing. Patrons sponsoring Professor Alexander's coming to Chicago make out checks to The Black Star Project and send checks to: The Black Star Project 3509 South King Drive Chicago, Illinois 60653 by July 4, 2010. Patrons and Sponosrs to date are: Patrons - Cecilia Hunt Bowie, PhD
- Robert S. Starshak
- James and Sharon Richmond
- Fred Schenck
- Josephine Wyatt
- Jerry Butler
- Maudessie Jointer
- Gail T. Smith
- National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'Cobra)
- National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
- Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers
Sponsors - Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago
| | When Generational Blessings Family Worship Center put out a call to "Take A Young Black Male to Worship", more than 100 new men and boys showed up to their service. Could this have been your church? Only if you tried. | | | 100 New Black Men and Boys Worship Together During Generational Blessings Outreach Sunday by Elaine Hegwood Bowen Generational Blessings Family Worship Center in Chicago Heights participated in the recent "Take A Black Male to Worship Day." Pastor Olivia Johnson of Tinley Park said that the congregation surpassed its goal of 50 adult males and 50 male youth who were new to the congregation or returning visitors. "It was important that our church be involved in this national initiative, because I believe it will take both God and a village to save this generation. The family unit is in shambles, broken and out of order," said Pastor Johnson. "Upon the world's creation, God gave the man, Adam, responsibility to teach and lead his wife and children, by example, in the ways of the Lord. Only when men turn to Jesus, His Word and the Church, the compass for the family, will families become fruitful, blessed, healthy and whole again. For who better holds the answer to the world's ills than the Creator of the world, that is God?"
The speaker for that day was Dan Gardner, Workforce and Community Services Coordinator for Prairie State College, where he oversees the day-to-day operations of the Business and Community Education Center. Gardner is a graduate of Northwestern University, the father of a 20-year-old son who is a junior at University of Illinois-Springfield, and has been married for 24 years. Pastor Olivia Johnson welcomes 100 men and boys on "Take A Young Black Male to Worship" Day.  | Others speakers included Major Joel Freeman, Headquarters Company Commander for the 308th Civil Affairs Brigade, who is also an Iraq War veteran. He has 16 years of service, of which 14 years were active duty, as well as Minister Roderick Peterson, who has served eight years with the Cook County Sheriff's Department of Correction. The "Take a Black Male to Worship Day" is a national initiative created by the Black Star Project's Phil Jackson of Chicago to bring 1 million African-American men together with today's youth in churches throughout the U.S. to "show" them by example a better way of life than the streets, gangs, violence, academic failure, unemployment and jail.
"This initiative ignited a flame of hope within the youth that attended. The care, attention and love that spread from adult hearts to young hearts, no doubt, filled many a void, while opening up much-needed dialogue between generations," Pastor Johnson added.
"Witnessing and hearing the passionate experiences and heartfelt concern of loving husbands and God-fearing fathers gave the youth a new paradigm of hopeful possibilities for their own families-for a child can only be what a child can see."
Generational Blessings meets Sundays at 11 a.m. and Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in the Prairie State College Auditorium, 202 S. Halsted St., Chicago Heights, Illinois.
For more information, call 708.935.1951. Young boys and young men learn to worship at Generational Blessings Family Worship Center.  | | Click on links below for more information about the great programs of The Black Star Project | | For more information on our other programs and how you can get involved, click on these links below or please call 773.285.9600: | | | | | | | | The Black Star Project | 3473 South King Drive, Box 464 | Chicago | IL | 60616 |  |
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