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| | | Six-year-old girl handcuffed and arrested for throwing tantrum at Georgia elementary school By Antoinette Campbell, CNN Tuesday, April 17, 2012  | | 6-year-old Salecia Johnson. |
Milledgeville police said they were called to Creekside Elementary School on Friday for an unruly juvenile, who was allegedly throwing a tantrum. According to their report, when the officer arrived, he observed kindergartner Salecia Johnson on the floor of the principal's office screaming and crying. The officer stated in the report that he noticed damage to school property and tried numerous times to calm the girl, who eventually "pulled away and began actively resisting and fighting with me." "The child was then placed in handcuffs for her safety and the officer proceeded to bring her down to the police station," said Chief Dray Swicord. |
| Corrections Corporation of America Wants to Spend $250 Million to Buy and Privatize Public Prisons. Please Contact Your Governor on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 and Tell Him or Her to Tell CCA "No" to Prison Privatization.  As people of faith, join us in urging our Governors to publicly commit to decline CCA's offer to buy up and privatize state prisons. On Wednesday April 18th, call and ask your State Governor to make a public commitment before June 1, 2012 to decline CCA's offer to privatize prisons. Recently,Corrections Corporation of America's sent a letter to 48 US Governors offering to spend up to $250 million to buy prisons from state, local, and federal government entities on conditions of a minimum commitment of 20 years for the facility and maintaining 90% capacity over the twenty year period. These outrageous offer strikes at the heart of a democracy grounded in human rights and compassion within our criminal justice system - our beliefs in fair and just punishment, rehabilitative and restorative justice, death and dying with dignity. Out of concern for the mass criminalization and incarceration for all of our brothers and sisters who are racially profiled, rounded up on behalf of the War on Drugs, and warehoused in prisons, we will not be silent! Click Here to contact your governor to tell Corrections Corporation of America "No" to privatizing prisons in America. |
| In Alabama, Man Gets Three Days in Jail for Sagging Pants Circuit Judge John Bush told Ramsey his blue jeans were sagging too low and gave him the three-day stint. The judge told Ramsey to buy pants that fit or a belt when he gets out of the county jail. The judge says he finds it disrespectful and a disruption when people wear pants below their waistline in his chambers. |
| Community organizations, block clubs, faith-based organizations, churches, school councils, PTA's parent advocacy groups, education associations and any representative of an organization concerned about the education of Chicago students are invited to the First Meeting of the Chicago Congress of Parents - Only Good Parents Can Guarantee Better Schools
- Only Good Parents Can Guarantee Safer Communities
- Only Good Parents Can Guarantee More Prosperous Families
on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 6:30pm - 7:45pm at The Black Star Project 3509 South King Drive Chicago, Illinois Please call Jami at 773.285.9600 for more information or to join this effort. |
| State Senator Jacqueline Collins Seeks to Help Students in the 16th Legislative District of Illinois Apply for an Illinois General Assembly Scholarship to a State University or College.  | | Illinois State Senator Jacqueline Y. Collins (center) |
If you are a college eligible student who lives in the 16th Legislative District of Illinois, this is an opportunity for you to receive a state scholarship. Click Here to see if you reside in the 16th Legislative District of Illinois. Click Here for an application for a scholarship if you live in the 16th Legislative District.of Illinois. |
Diary Of A Mad Black Teacher By Marilyn Rhames March 7, 2012 Somebody just tried to kill my little sister! Like most of us, she works hard to put food on the table. She has a son and daughter, both still in diapers. She has a mortgage, student loans, and a greedy little dog named Sir. Everyday she pounds the pavement in and around Chicago, trying to make a living doing real estate. At 9:45 a.m. last Friday, she found herself parked on a residential block in the city's notorious Roseland neighborhood on the far South Side of Chicago. Having just wrapped up a phone call, she put her hand on the door handle to get out of her car. That's when all hell broke loose. |
| Dear Trayvon by D.L. Hughley, Comedian and Actor  | | D.L. Hughley |
When I was 17 I had dabbled with weed and alcohol, hell I still do (some things never change). I had been expelled from three schools for all sorts of reasons: problems with authority, fighting, and truancy. I did not graduate from high school, and only received my GED years later when I was a husband and a father. Thankfully my life is not the sum parts of who I was and what I did when I was 17. I went on to have a beautiful wife and three children. My two oldest are already college graduates and my youngest will be graduating in two years. I am a King of Comedy and I have had the pleasure of working with some of the best talents in the world. I have had several of my own televisions shows, radio shows, and in August I will release my first book. I cannot help but wonder how people would have remembered me had my life been cut short at 17. I feel a profound sense of loss when I think of you, Trayvon. |
Student loan debt a growing threat to the economy $870 billion in outstanding balances exceeds credit card, auto obligations By Becky Yerak April 12, 2012 Move over, mortgages. Get out of the way, Greece. Another economic doomsday scenario is emerging. Student loan debt has reached about $870 billion, exceeding credit cards and auto loans, and balances are expected to continue climbing, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said last month. In February, the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys referred to a "student loan 'debt bomb'" and wondered if it was shaping up to become "America's next mortgage-style economic crisis." Such a burden could crimp an already weak economy. |
| A Million Fathers Club and Members Only Event Become a Member of The Black Star Project and see The Chicago Cubs versus The Cincinnati Reds at Beautiful Wrigley Field 1060 West Addison Street Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, April 21, 2012 FREE FOR BLACK STAR MEMBERS and Million Fathers Club Participants!!! JOIN the Black Star Project Today!!! Limited Number of Tickets! Please call Bruce Walker for more information at 773.285.9600. |
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