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NCCU Chancellor Debra Saunders-White joins students at the Turner Law School Aug. 25 in solidarity with murdered Michael Brown.
NCCU students protest man’s death in Missouri
(Staff and AP Wire Reports) - Black law students at
forth Carolina Central University are holding a rally to
irotest the shooting death of an unarmed 18-year-old man
>y a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.
The school’s Black Law Students Association held the
ally Monday on the front steps of the Turner Law Build-
ng on the NCCU campus. Speakers will included law
irofessor Irving Joyner along with the head of Black Law
itudents Association, the president of the Student Bar
Association and Rev. William A. Barber, president of the
forth Carolina NAACP..
A police officer shot and killed Michael Brown on Aug.
). Demonstrations began after that, and authorities have
irrested more than 160 people in the protest area. Another
fatal police-involved shooting happened in St. Louis.
Protesters have chanted “hands up, don’t shoot” in
Ferguson and other places across the country. Chancellor
Debra Saunders-White joined the students in the “Hands
Jp, Don’t Shoot” slogan.
Prof. Irving Joyner challenged students to more outside
he environs of NCCU. To “reach out to the broader com-
nunity and help them in their struggles. He also said after
Protesting and taking photographs, it is voting that will
hake the difference..
“We have to go back to using our political power to lift
up the community,”
Rev. Barber echoed that theme.
NCCU Professor irving Joyner
Thousands turn out for rally over chokehold death
By Jonathan Lemire
NEW YORK (AP) - Thousands of people expressing grief, anger and hope for a better future marched peacefully through the New York
Trough of Staten Island on Aug. 23 to protest the chokehold death of an unarmed black man by a white police officer. Police reported no
uresis.
The afternoon rally and march was led by the Rev. Al Sharpton and relatives of Eric Garner, who died July 17 after a New York Police
Department officer took him to the ground with a banned tactic in a confrontation captured on video.
The marchers started near a makeshift memorial of flowers, signs and candles set up where Garner was wrestled down and handcuffed.
Ihey carried a banner: “We Will Not Go Back, March for Justice.”
Police estimated at least 2,500 people had taken to the streets. The crowd included representatives of the United Federation of Teachers
ad members of the Society of Friends, also known as Quakers. City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and Democratic gubernatorial
candidate Zephyr Teachout marched, too.
Diana Smith-Baker, a white Quaker, said it was important for people of all races and religions to bring attention to “the inequities toward
Mack people and Hispanic people by the police department.”
James O’Neill, police chief of patrol, credited march organizers for the peaceful turnout.
Earlier, Sharpton warned about 100 marchers at a Staten Island church to remain nonviolent or go home. He also repeated his call for a
federal takeover of the criminal probe into the death of the 43-year-old Gamer, an asthmatic father of six who was stopped for selling loose
cigarettes.
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Even in loss, Chicago
celebrates Little Leaguers
By Michael Tarm
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago cheered on the hottest sports team in
town on Aug. 24 and, for the day at least, it wasn’t a team called the
Bears, White Sox, Cubs, Bulls or Blackhawks.
The buzz in the nation’s third-largest city was for a group of 11-
and 12-year-old boys from Chicago’s South Side who took on South
Korea in the Little League World Series championship game.
And it didn’t matter all that much to supporters that the Jackie
Robinson West All Stars ended up losing 8-4.
Far from falling quiet with the final out, several hundred support
ers who gathered for a TV watch party in a South Side community
center gym jumped to their feet, roared and clapped - as if the team
had won.
“They showed what heart they have. The city could not be prouder
of them,” Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who attended the party,
said of the young players who sought to mount a comeback rally in
the last inning.
Watch parties were held across Chicago to support the team,
which is based on the city’s far South Side, including one on State
Street outside the iconic Chicago Theatre.
Neighborhoods from in and around Chicago embraced the Little
Leaguers, who defeated a Las Vegas team 7-5 Aug. 23 to become
U.S. champions, as their own.
“I have never seen the community come together like this,” said
Eldridge Dockery, 44, who lives in the South Side’s Morgan Park
neighborhood. “We’re usually behind our walls or gates - but this
team brought us out, talking and celebrating together.”
The Jackie Robinson West All Stars, made up of all black players,
made their first appearance in 31 years in the Little League World
Series. The team’s journey has been an inspiration for many in a part
of Chicago that has grappled with poverty and gang violence.
Asked about the good feeling that infused the area as the Little
Leaguers went on to the international championship game, Dockery
said, “I hope it lasts.”
The sense of unity fostered by the team even applied, in part, to
political rivals.
Both Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn and Republican gubernatorial
challenger Bruce Rauner showed up at the community center gym to
watch the Jackie Robinson West All Stars.
“It’s all about bringing the city together,” Rauner told a reporter.
Rauner sat in a front row, bobbing his head at one point as a green
alligator mascot led the crowd in a chant to thumping music. At sepa
rate times during breaks in the action, both he and Quinn - who are
locked in a tight race - got up and danced.
Emanuel, who is a Democrat, stood with his arms folded at the
same event, rocking in apparent nervousness as the game went on.
After the loss, he said a celebratory parade would be held anyway on
Aug. 27 for the Little League team.