Jasmyne Cannick Trashes Fox News to its Face [WATCH] | Black America Web

Jasmyne Cannick Trashes Fox News to its Face [WATCH] | Black America Web

JohnButts@JBMedia - Reports:
Writer and frequent EURweb contributor Jasmyne Cannick was a guest on Fox’s “O’Reilly Factor” for a discussion of race in America, but her segment turned into a debate about the network itself when she said “many of the shows on this very network help perpetuate the racism that exists in America.”

O’Reilly’s guest host Eric Bolling was thrown. He responded, “How? Don’t lob a grenade without telling me how.”

Bolling told Cannick that her appearance followed several back-to-back discussions of race, with varying viewpoints, and asked her how that perpetuated racism.
Cannick would only reply, “You know exactly what I’m saying, Eric.”

Watch the video above!

Teen missing four years found alive, hidden behind wall near Atlanta - Yahoo News

Teen missing four years found alive, hidden behind wall near Atlanta - Yahoo News

 

JohnButts@JBMedia - Reports:
A 13-year-old boy who had been reported missing four years ago was discovered alive, hidden behind a fake wall of a home near Atlanta, Georgia, and reunited with his mother early on Saturday, police said.

Five people living in the home in Jonesboro, 17 miles (28 km) south of Atlanta, were taken into custody, among them the boy's father, Gregory Jean, 37, and an adult female, said Sergeant Kevin Hughes of the Clayton County police.

Jean and Samantha Joy Davis face charges of false imprisonment, cruelty to children and obstructing an officer, he said, adding that three juveniles also in the home were facing obstruction charges.

The boy's mother apparently had reported him missing to child welfare but not police, and no missing person's report was filed in Clayton County, Hughes said.

The teen was apparently able to get to a phone recently and contacted his mother with his whereabouts, authorities said.

Clayton County police went to the home on Friday to look for the 13-year-old but Jean and Davis said they had no information about the boy, Hughes said.

Several hours later, police came back and again searched the residence. While the police were in the home, the boy called his mother, who relayed to officers where her son was hidden in the house, Hughes said.

"They discovered him hidden behind a false wall in the interior portion of the home," he said.

The boy appeared to be in good physical health and was reunited with his mother, who had come to Georgia from out of state, Hughes said.

Neighbors in their quiet, well-kept Jonesboro neighborhood said the family moved in about six months ago and kept to themselves.

The 13-year-old boy always seemed to be home and did not appear to be enrolled in school, they said.

"We just thought that they liked to keep to themselves," said neighbor Julie Pizarro, 37, adding that the boy was often seen tending the yard.

"You can see the yard is immaculate," she said. "The boy kept it that way."

The teen went missing in 2010 while visiting his father in Florida, WSBTV reported.

Jean was being held in Clayton County jail and no bail has been set, online records show.

Authorities said Jean and Davis could face more criminal charges as the investigation unfolds.

It was unclear if they had obtained attorneys.

Watch Martin Luther King Jr.'s Struggle for Justice in the Exclusive First 'Selma' Trailer

Watch Martin Luther King Jr.'s Struggle for Justice in the Exclusive First 'Selma' Trailer

 

JohnButts@JBMedia - Reports:
Ava DuVernay may have come on board to direct Selma late last year, but she was born to do the job.

As you can see in the exclusive first trailer — which you can watch above — the civil rights drama dives deep into the story of the march that saw Martin Luther King Jr. (played by David Oyelowo of The Butler) traveling from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., during the fight for equal voting rights in 1965. The historic protest passed through Lowndes County, where DuVernay’s father was born and grew up and where Ava and her siblings frequently visited.

 "His family farm is right on the stretch of lonely backcountry roads that the marchers walked from Selma to Montgomery," DuVernay tells Yahoo Movies. "I didn’t have to start with learning about the place, because that’s where my dad is from and where we spent many summers and Father’s Days and Christmases. I could just go straight to the story."

Calling her father a “quiet and dignified man,” DuVernay said she worked to imbue the film with his energy and the strength of the people who fought the remarkable battle for basic human rights. In the trailer, King  rallies his allies against the hostile police and ambivalent government officials — including FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and President Lyndon Johnson — who have been empowered by an entrenched system of segregation and racism. Their peaceful march, however, is met with violence and hatred.

The script for Selma, one of the surprisingly few historically-accurate films with King at its center, had languished in development for years, having been eyed at different times by such filmmakers Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, and Lee Daniels. DuVernay’s hiring, which came at the suggestion of Oyelowo,  helped move the project toward reality. But it was the involvement of producer Oprah Winfrey — who adopted the film as a passion project — that helped get Selma over the finish line.

"She was active and engaged and constantly on the set," DuVernay said. "She moved the waters like Moses: She held up her staff, and they parted, and we were able to go through and make the movie. She was a producer, and that’s working on financing, physical production, casting, permits, insurances — it gets really boring and unsexy at some point. But I’m able to say I’ve heard Oprah Winfrey on an insurance bond call. She did it all."

That even included acting in the film, as civil rights activist Annie Lee Cooper, though that onscreen credit was an honor the global superstar was reticent to receive.

"That took a lot of convincing," DuVernay said. "She’d just come off The Butler, and she wasn’t seeking a part in Selma.

So I had to ask her four times. She kept putting it off, until I was able to show her some background materials on the character I wanted her to play. She was the perfect person for the part. I had to wage a full  campaign to get her to play it.”

Eventually, Winfrey acquiesced and agreed to play Cooper, a protester who became known for punching an aggressive police chief in the jaw. Oprah, DuVernay said, needed no help in throwing the punch. “Oh no — she was good!” the director said with a laugh.

DuVernay is feverishly working to finish the film, which opens on Dec. 25, and has spent much of postproduction keeping one eye on her movie, and one on eye on the recent events that have unfolded in Ferguson, Mo., where the struggle on the ground eerily recalls the situation King faced decades ago.

"It really just proves that these issues are on a continuum," she said. "Until we really understand where they started and what’s happened, they’ll just continue to happen. I was grappling with the footage in the editing room: On one screen, I’m looking at my footage, and [then] I turn my head and I’m watching CNN and MSNBC on the other [screen], and I’m seeing the same thing. A whole small town that had to face an aggressive police force and had to grapple with, ‘Do we throw rocks? What do we do?’ We just went through Selma again, collectively."

Sharpton calls for federal prosecution in Ferguson - Yahoo News

Sharpton calls for federal prosecution in Ferguson - Yahoo News

JohnButts@JBMedia - Reports:
With a grand jury decision and a local election looming, the Rev. Al Sharpton returned to St. Louis on Friday to renew calls for the federal prosecution of a white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black 18-year-old in the nearby suburb of Ferguson.

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The civil rights activist said leaks about the supposedly secret St. Louis County grand jury deliberations undermine the local inquiry into whether to indict Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson in Michael Brown's killing.

The panel is expected to complete its review by mid-November, independent of Justice Department investigations into both Brown's death and the broader practices of the Ferguson department.

Legal analysts have said leaked information about Wilson's testimony to investigators could be an attempt to prepare the public for the possibility that the grand jury might recommend he not face charges.

"The grand jury is tainted. The confidence of the family has been shattered," Sharpton said after meeting briefly with Brown's parents and local activists at a breakfast rally before returning to New York. "We should turn this over to the federal government."

Sharpton's remarks were followed by a training of volunteer "justice disciples" who will monitor the police response to anticipated protests over the upcoming grand jury decision. He's scheduled to again join Brown's parents Monday at a get-out-the-vote rally in St. Louis, with a particular emphasis on a St. Louis County executive race that has largely become a referendum on Ferguson.

Sharpton, who delivered the eulogy at Brown's funeral and has joined Michael Brown Sr. and Lesley McSpadden at news conferences in Ferguson, Atlanta and Washington, said published reports suggesting Ferguson chief Tom Jackson was being forced to step down distract from the fundamental point of the Ferguson protests and what organizers call a broader social movement.

"Don't act like you can exchange a job for justice," he said. "To suggest that just changing who the chief is answers how this young man was killed is an insult to the intelligence." Jackson, meanwhile, criticized Attorney General Eric Holder's recent call for "wholesale change" in the department.

The Ferguson chief told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that Holder's comments in Washington this week were "irresponsible" while the federal investigations continue. Jackson said he is "low-hanging fruit" for critics but has no plans to resign.

"I think he's about to leave office and needs to say he accomplished something in Ferguson," Jackson said of Holder, who has announced his resignation but plans to remain in office until a replacement is confirmed.

Charles Barkley Slams ‘Unintelligent,’ ‘Brainwashed’ Black People for Holding Successful Ones Back (Audio) - Yahoo TV

Charles Barkley Slams ‘Unintelligent,’ ‘Brainwashed’ Black People for Holding Successful Ones Back (Audio) - Yahoo TV

















JohnButts@JBMedia - Reports:

Charles Barkley is dishing out some tough love for what he describes as ”unintelligent” African-Americans who embrace thug culture and criticize others for not being “black enough.”

Barkley, an NBA Hall of Famer and TV analyst with TNT, made the comments in response to a question regarding a report that Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson isn't seen as “black enough” by some of his NFL teammates.

 “For some reason we are brainwashed to think, if you're not a thug or an idiot, you're not black enough,” Barkley said. “If you go to school, make good grades, speak intelligent, and don't break the law, you're not a good black person.”

He made the controversial comments in an interview with CBS Philadelphia radio's “Afternoons with Anthony Gargano and Rob Ellis.”

 
“There are a lot of black people who are unintelligent, who don't have success,” he continued. “It's best to knock a successful black person down because they're intelligent, they speak well, they do well in school and they're successful … It's just typical B.S. that goes on when you're a black, man.” He also described the situation as ”a dirty, dark secret.”

Barkley is known for being outspoken. He recently defended the NFL’ Adrian Peterson, who is accused of physically abusing his son, noting that “we spank kids in the South.”

Autopsy of slain Missouri teen shows close-range gunshot: report - Yahoo News

Autopsy of slain Missouri teen shows close-range gunshot: report - Yahoo News

JohnButts@JBMedia - Reports:
A government autopsy of the unarmed black teenager whose killing by a white police officer set off months of protests in Ferguson, Missouri, suggests he suffered a gunshot to the hand from close range, according to a copy of the autopsy published by the St. Louis Post Dispatch.

The autopsy results could buttress claims by supporters of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson that the Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown, 18, was justified.

Activists said the leak of the report to the newspaper was adding to tensions in the community, which has been the site of numerous protests, some with clashes between demonstrators and police, in the 10 weeks since the shooting.

The report comes days after the New York Times, citing federal government officials briefed on a civil rights investigation, reported that Wilson told investigators he feared for his life and battled with Brown in his vehicle over his gun.

A grand jury is considering charges against Wilson, who has not spoken publicly about the shooting. Protesters have said they expect widespread unrest if he is not charged and local and state authorities have said they are preparing for that possibility.

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"There is a lack of trust. That is why people are protesting every single night," said Rashad Robinson, executive director of Color of Change, a civil rights organization. "They have a fundamental belief that the system is stacked against them. These continual leaks raise a lot of suspicion."

Ed Magee, a spokesman for the St. Louis County prosecutor's office, said a decision is expected sometime in mid-November.

Brown's death has sparked protests across Ferguson, a primarily black community with a mostly white police force and city government, and has drawn global attention to race relations in the United States.

The St. Louis County medical examiner's autopsy indicates that Brown's hand was close to Wilson's weapon, according to forensic experts interviewed by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

The autopsy said a microscopic examination of Brown's hand tissue showed particles "consistent with products that are discharged from the barrel of a firearm." The medical examiner also found that Brown tested positive for marijuana.

A representative for the county medical examiner verified the authenticity of the autopsy report the newspaper posted and said the office did not provide the report to the Post-Dispatch.

The shooting happened shortly after noon on Aug. 9 when Brown was walking down the middle of a neighborhood street with a friend and Wilson, who was driving by, ordered them out of the street.

Accounts differ but witnesses and law enforcement officials have agreed that Wilson and Brown became embroiled in an altercation through the window of the Wilson's vehicle and Wilson exited his vehicle and shot Brown several times.

Sanford Rubinstein Steps Down From Eric Garner Case Due To Rape | News One

Sanford Rubinstein Steps Down From Eric Garner Case Due To Rape | News One

 

JohnButts@JBMedia - Reports:
Prominent civil rights attorney Sanford Rubinstein (pictured) has reportedly withdrawn himself from police choking victim Eric Garner $75 million lawsuit case against the city of New York because he has to focus on defending himself against a rape allegation, according to the New York Post.

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In a statement made on Tuesday, the 70-year-old lawyer, who has yet to be arrested or charged for the allegation and has vehemently claimed his innocence, announced, “I  will be stepping back from any role representing the family of police-choking victim Eric Garner so there are no distractions from the family’s fight for justice.  Other highly capable attorneys will remain on the team representing the Garner family and will continue to press for justice and accountability.”

Garner, 43, a Long Island resident, died on July 17th, after the NYPD attempted to arrest him on charges of hawking cigarettes. Police wound up putting Garner in a chokehold and forcibly dragging him down to the pavement even though Garner kept alerting them to the fact that he could not breathe.

Rubinstein has an incredible track record for winning difficult civil rights cases, particularly police brutality ones like that of Abner Louima and the family of Sean Bell. Louima, who was savagely beaten and sodomized by the NYPD back in 1997, received a reported $8.7 million. Bell was an unarmed man who was gunned down by the NYPD the night before his wedding day back in 2006. Bell’s family received a reported $7 million.

Rubinstein is a longtime friend of Baptist minister and civil rights activist Al Sharpton.  Rubinstein and his accuser, a 42-year-old executive at Sharpton’s National Action Network, reportedly went to his apartment after attending the civil rights activist’s 60th birthday celebration.  The woman claims she was raped on the night she went to Rubinstein’s apartment and then awakened to find herself engaging in another sexual act with him the following day, according to a police source. Police investigators also suspect Rubinstein might have used an object to penetrate the woman.

The case is being treated as a third-degree rape because the alleged victim was incapable of consent. A police source told the New York Daily News that the woman was “a little drunk” when she left Sharpton’s party.  The woman did tell police she remembered going to Rubinstein’s home but not giving her consent to have sex.  Authorities are investigating whether the alleged victim was drugged.

The victim, who is reportedly a Black woman, sought treatment at a hospital, and according to a police source, was bleeding from her genitals. A rape kit was brought in for her as well.