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Pearland ISD employees sued after Black student reportedly made to fill in hair design with Sharpie

Three Pearland school officials are being sued along with the school district after a seventh-grade student was made to fill in his hair design with a black Sharpie earlier this year. 

The federal civil rights lawsuit was filed Sunday, characterizing the act as racist and saying the boy was humiliated and shamed by it.

In April, the assistant principal at Berry Miller Junior High told the child he was in violation of the dress code, which at the time stated “hair must be neat, clean and well-groomed. Extreme hair styles such as carvings, mohawks, spikes, etc. are not allowed.”

Barcelona, along with discipline clerk Helen Day and teacher Jeanette Peterson laughed as the students design was colored in, the complaint states.

An attorney for the child’s parents noted in the complaint that depicting African Americans with jet black skin is a negative racial stereotype dating as far back as the Jim Crow era. 

“The jet-black markings did not cover the haircut design line but made the design more prominent and such was obvious to those present at the very beginning of the scalp blackening process,” the complaint says.

In a statement in May, the district said the incoming principal has “humbly apologized, expressed great regret over this matter, and has resolved to re-earn the trust and confidence placed upon him.”

Pearland ISD changed its dress code policy in May to take out the part about “extreme” hairstyles.

The boy’s parents and their lawyer are holding a press conference Monday outside the Pearland ISD administration building at 2 p.m.

Pearland ISD had not yet responded to the lawsuit as of Sunday evening.

 

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    There could have been three more mass shootings if these men weren’t stopped

    Mass shooters

    Authorities this weekend announced they had foiled three potential mass shootingsafter arresting three men in different states who expressed interest in or threatened to carry them out.All three cases were brought to authorities’ attention thanks to tips from the public.Here’s what we know about them. 

    Police say he had the motivation and the ammunition

    In Connecticut, 22-year-old Brandon Wagshol was arrested after authorities said he had expressed interest in committing a mass shooting on Facebook, according to a statement from the FBI and the Norwalk Police Department. If you see a red flag for a mass shooting, this is what you should do He faces four charges of illegal possession of large capacity magazines, and is being held on a $250,000 bond. He is scheduled to appear in court September 6.According to the statement, authorities received a tip that Wagshol was trying to buy large capacity rifle magazines from out of state. As the FBI and the Norwalk Police Department were investigating the tip, they discovered Wagshol was trying to build his own rifle and had allegedly posted on Facebook about his interest in committing a mass shooting, the statement said. Authorities did not provide details on what the post said.

    Brandon Wagshol

    Brandon WagsholAuthorities executed a search warrant at his home and found multiple weapons, including a handgun, a rifle, a rifle scope with a laser, numerous rounds of ammunition, body armor, a ballistic helmet and other tactical gear, police said. Some of the weapons were registered to Wagshol’s father, but he had access to them, authorities said.CNN has reached out to the prosecutor and defense attorney.

    He allegedly told his ex ‘A good 100 kills would be nice’

    Tristan Scott Wix of Daytona Beach, Florida, was arrested in a Winn-Dixie parking lot on Friday after he sent his ex-girlfriend a series of disturbing texts in which he allegedly threatened to commit a mass shooting, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said. The ex-girlfriend alerted authorities. In the messages, the 25-year-old said he wanted to open fire on a large crowd of people, the sheriff’s office said in a news release. “A good 100 kills would be nice,” one message allegedly read. Wix also said he already had a location in mind, according to the sheriff’s office.

    Tristan Wix of Daytona Beach, Florida, faces charges of making written threats to kill or do bodily injury after a series of ominous text messages.

    Tristan Wix of Daytona Beach, Florida, faces charges of making written threats to kill or do bodily injury after a series of ominous text messages. “A school is a weak target.. id be more likely to open fire on a large crowd of people from over 3 miles away.. I’d wanna break a world record for longest confirmed kill ever,” another message read, according to the sheriff’s office.Wix wrote that he wanted to die and “have fun doing it,” authorities said. Volusia County Sheriff Michael Chitwood said on CNN Sunday that authorities had recovered a .22-caliber hunting rifle and 400 rounds of ammo in Wix’s apartment. Wix had initially told investigators he did not own any firearms but that he was fascinated with mass shootings, the sheriff’s office said.Wix was being held without bond Sunday at the Volusia County Branch Jail. CNN could not immediately determine Sunday whether Wix had an attorney.

    He’s accused of threatening a Jewish community center

    And in Ohio, 20-year-old James Patrick Reardon was arrested for allegedly threatening to carry out a shooting at a Youngstown Jewish community center. Why El Paso and other recent attacks in the US are modern-day lynchingsAn Instagram account belonging to Reardon shared a video that showed a man firing a gun, New Middletown Police Chief Vincent D’Egidio told CNN. The post — which was shown to an officer out on an unrelated call — tagged the Jewish Community Center of Youngstown, D’Egidio said. It’s unclear whether the man shooting the gun was Reardon or someone else. Andy Lipkin, the executive vice-president of the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation, said the post was accompanied by a caption that read, “Police identified the Youngstown Jewish Family Community shooter as local white nationalist Seamus O’Rearedon” — Seamus being a Gaelic version of Reardon’s name.

    James Patrick Reardon was arrested for threatening a Jewish community center in Ohio, authorities say.

    James Patrick Reardon was arrested for threatening a Jewish community center in Ohio, authorities say.The rest of the Instagram account contained anti-Semitic comments, white nationalist content, and images of Reardon or someone else shooting guns, D’Egidio said. A search warrant was executed and authorities found a cache of weapons and ammunition, D’Egidio told CNN.Reardon was arrested without incident and booked into the Mahoning County Jail on Saturday on one count of telecommunications harassment and one count of aggravated menacing, according to online jail records. He’s set to be arraigned Monday morning, the police chief said.It was unclear whether Reardon was represented by an attorney.

     

     

    Don’t screw over your friends

    “Vijay and Raju were friends. One day while on holiday, exploring a forest, they saw a bear coming towards them.

    Naturally, they were both frightened, so Raju, who knew how to climb trees, climbed one quickly. He didn’t spare a thought for his friend who had no idea how to climb.

    Vijay thought for a moment. He had heard that animals don’t attack dead bodies, so he fell to the ground and held his breath. The bear sniffed him, thought he was dead, and went on its way.

    Raju, after he had climbed down from the tree asked Vijay, ‘What did the bear whisper in your ears?’

    Vijay replied, ‘The bear asked me to keep away from friends like you.'”

     

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    Kathleen Blanco, Louisiana’s governor during Katrina, dies

    Former New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush, left, former Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco, former wide receiver Marques Colston and coach Sean Payton, right, at the New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame announcement at the team's training facility in Metairie, La., Wednesday, June 5, 2019. The Saints Hall of Fame is welcoming the two former players and the former Louisiana governor who helped with the resurgence of the football team and New Orleans itself after Hurricane Katrina. (Chris Granger/The Advocate via AP)

    Former Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, who became the state’s first female elected governor only to see her political career derailed by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, has died.

    After struggling for years with cancer, Blanco died Sunday in hospice care in Lafayette. She was 76.

    “Our hearts are broken, but we are joyful in knowing that she is rejoicing in her heavenly reunion with Christ. Please pray for God’s peace to carry us through the coming days and months of sorrow as we mourn her absence from our lives,” Blanco’s family said in a statement released by Gov. John Bel Edwards’ office.

    Blanco had a rare eye cancer that she battled successfully in 2011, but it later returned and spread to her liver. Her death came more than a year after the Democrat who served in state government offices for more than two decades announced in December 2017 that she was being treated for the incurable melanoma. Blanco described being in a “fight for my own life, one that will be difficult to win.”

    Blanco held Louisiana’s top elected job from 2004 to 2008. Until her campaign for governor, she spent much of her political career moving steadily and quietly through state politics, rarely creating waves or controversy. Katrina raised her profile nationally and forever impacted her legacy. The devastating August 2005 hurricane killed more than 1,400 people in Louisiana, displaced hundreds of thousands and inundated 80 percent of New Orleans.

    Historians will continue to debate whether any governor could have been prepared for such a catastrophe, but Blanco shouldered much of the blame after images of thousands stranded on rooftops and overpasses were broadcast to the world, and the government was slow to respond. Blanco was criticized as unprepared, overwhelmed and indecisive. The recovery she guided moved ploddingly.

    “While she knew that her name would forever be linked with Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, it was her dying wish that she be remembered for her faith in God, commitment to family and love of Louisiana,” Blanco’s family said.

    As the devout Catholic asked in the letter announcing her terminal condition for prayers in her final months, she also thanked Louisiana residents for their “abiding love” during her years of service, and described the challenges of responding to Katrina and the follow-up blow of Hurricane Rita a month later. She called it an “honor and blessing” to lead Louisiana at the time.

    “Katrina certainly left its mark and Rita left her mark on Louisiana. It made us tougher people though. It made us stronger,” the former governor said in July.

    In the immediate aftermath of the storms, Blanco said Louisiana’s miseries were worsened by a Republican-led White House desperate to blame someone else for its disaster response failures. “I just thought I could shout more loudly than the noise around me, but in the end I couldn’t. There was just too much pain,” she once said.

    Edwards, a Democrat in his first term as governor, called Blanco a mentor to him and a trailblazer to women. He ordered flags at state buildings around Louisiana flown at half-staff through Blanco’s funeral, scheduled for Saturday. A public service for the former governor will be held at the Louisiana Capitol on Thursday.

    “She led Louisiana through one of our darkest hours, when hurricanes and the failure of the federal levee system devastated much of our state,” Edwards said in a statement Sunday. “I hope history will remember Gov. Blanco as a tireless advocate for Louisiana, who fought fiercely for our state to rebuild.”

    A former high school business education teacher from the small Cajun village of Coteau, Blanco launched into politics as a consultant with her husband Raymond on local redistricting issues before going on to serve 24 years in elective office. Her first, in 1984, was a seat in the state House. Then came positions on the state utility regulatory commission and as lieutenant governor.

    Political insiders often dismissed Blanco as a lightweight — honest and hardworking but lacking in substance as a serious gubernatorial contender. She dropped out of the governor’s race in 1991, then stunned many political prognosticators in the 2003 election by defeating Republican Bobby Jindal. She successfully attacked Jindal’s record as a former state health official and made a memorable final debate appearance when — asked about a defining moment in her life — she tearfully recounted the 1997 death of her 19-year-old son Ben in an industrial accident.

    Jindal later succeeded Blanco as governor after Katrina stopped her plans to seek a second term.

    “Kathleen loved Louisiana and served the state for decades. She faced every struggle, including her last, with good cheer and a strong will. She will be missed,” Jindal said on Twitter.

    More than a decade after the storms, views of Blanco are generally more sympathetic. She gets praise for running a corruption-free government and championing education. She helped raise K-12 public school teacher pay and plowed hundreds of millions of dollars into colleges. The nonpartisan Council For A Better Louisiana recently praised Blanco’s successful push for a state takeover of failing public schools in New Orleans after Katrina, saying that has improved education for thousands of students.

    “It’s hard to overstate how politically risky that was,” the organization wrote.

    But Blanco’s tenure also was marked by heightened partisanship at the Louisiana Capitol, party-line disputes that have only intensified since she left office.

    Though she stepped out of the spotlight, Blanco never entirely left Louisiana politics. She and her husband assisted Edwards in his campaigns and became close with him. Edwards called the ex-governor “a strong woman of incredible faith, a deep and abiding love of Louisiana and all its people.”

    As she knew her end was near, Blanco described feeling “blessed by God” and talked of her final months as a “wonderful time for me, even though it is a time of a kind of countdown.” She talked of being surrounded by family and friends and old political foes having “a chance to make up.”

    “My life has been so charmed by so many events that were unexpected and challenged by many events that were unexpected,” she said in July as a Louisiana highway was named in her honor. “But God puts you where he wants you to be.”

     

  • Date/time: August 23rd, 7:00pm to 11:00pm

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    Al Sharpton: Pitting Jay-Z against Colin Kaepernick is ‘The wrong fight”

    Al Sharpton

    While many civil rights leaders have seemingly stayed quiet about Jay-Z’s new controversial partnership with the NFL, the Rev. Al Sharpton decidedly confronted it head-on during his weekly address at the National Action Network headquarters in Harlem on Saturday. 

    People have had strong opinions about the deal that gives Jay-Z’s Roc Nation company control over certain aspects of the Super Bowl halftime show and places the rapper in an as-yet undesignated role surrounding social justice issues and initiatives. But because the undoubtedly lucrative partnership’s announcement was void of any mention of Colin Kaepernick — the free agent Super Bowl quarterback whose national anthem kneeling protest is credited with bringing the widespread awareness of social justice issues and, in particular, police brutality against Black people — some folks have said in no uncertain terms that Jay-Z sold out Kaepernick. (It didn’t help matters that it was later reported that Jay-Z was expected to ultimately have a “significant ownership interest” in an NFL team.)

    However, others have suggested a hurry-up-and-wait approach could be more prudent, given Jay’s documented dedication to “the cause.”

    On Saturday, Sharpton suggested that the Jay-Z-NFL-Kaepernick debate was missing one key component that, if included, would put the controversy into what he said was its proper, larger context.

    “This ain’t about Colin Kaepernick’s knee,” Sharpton said, “it’s about choking Eric Garner to death!”

    Sharpton, who went on to cite Tamir Rice and Michael Brown as other unarmed Black males killed by police, was referring to the absence of justice as NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo avoided criminal charges and has kept his high-paying job more than five years after being was recorded on video choking Garner to death in broad daylight. The reverend used that notorious police death to explain who he said should matter most in the overall social justice narrative.

    “This ain’t no battle for athletes and superstars, it’s about people being trampled on,” he exclaimed. “Don’t let them distract you fighting the wrong fight!”

    Sharpton went on to cite Jay-Z’s notable contributions on the social justice front. “I’m not attacking Jay-Z,” he said before emphasizing that he was more concerned with justice for Garner and other Black victims of police brutality that has gone unpunished.

    Jay-Z’s social justice resume is strong. He has produced one documentary about Trayvon Martin and another about Kalief Browder, each credited for helping to bring attention to two very separate but equally tragic deaths blamed in part on law enforcement. Roc Nation has helped secure legal aid for both famous and everyday Black people. Most notably, Jay was involved in the legal saga that helped to release Meek Mill from prison last year after he spent nearly five months incarceratedafter a controversial sentence for probation violation.

    Michael Eric Dyson, the scholar as well as Jay-Z’s biographer, vehemently defended Jay and his record during an appearance on CNN on Friday that incorporated some similar points Sharpton made.

    Still, the rapper was being heavily criticized for saying during the partnership’s announcement that he thought kneeling was no longer the right approach to effect any real change.

    Kaepernick seemed to question the partnership when he tweeted on Thursday — the day after the deal was announced — that he planned to continue “to work and stand with the people in our fight for liberation, despite those who are trying to erase the movement!” To many people, that read like a direct swipe at Jay.

    Nessa, the free-agent quarterback’s girlfriend who’s been a leading voice for Team Kaepernick, later tweeted that “Jay-Z Is JUST Taking The Money.

    The likely truth was that until (if?) the details of Jay-Z’s agreement with the NFL are revealed, no one really knows what his role will be or who it will truly benefit. Which is why Sharpton’s words on Saturday seemed to be the voice of reason that was missing from the ongoing argument: don’t get distracted “fighting the wrong fight!”

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