Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO:  Colin Kaepernick (Photo by Ga Fullner/shutterstock) ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick has been named GQ’s magazine’s “Citizen of the Year” for his activism. Kaepernick began kneeling instead of standing during the national anthem last season to protest racial inequality and police brutality. The demonstration sparked a wave of…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Andre Rainey, Andrea Jenkins, Justin Fairfax, Vi Lyles, Melvin Carter, and Sheila Oliver   becauseofthemwecan.com BOTWC Staff Black political excellence was in full effect on Tuesday, Nov. 7 Election Day! As the results for the local elections began rolling in on Tuesday night, the nation witnessed a shift in political representation, one many are calling a sign of…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Investigators work at the scene of a deadly shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Sunday Nov. 5, 2017. A man opened fire inside of the church in the small South Texas community on Sunday, killing more than 20 people. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP) By Jim Vertuno associated press…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Rapper Meek Mill visits DTLR Radio in Baltimore, Maryland to promote his new album, Wins & Losses, earlier this year in July. Mill was sentenced to two to four years in prison on probation violations stemming from a 2009 gun and drug case.  (Photo: Shutterstock) By Anthony Izaguirre associated press Rapper Meek Mill…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  A truck used in a terrorist attack in New York City on October 31, 2017, is seen as FBI and NYPD conduct an investigation in New York, NY, on November 1, 2017. (Photo by Anthony Behar/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)   By Colleen Long and Matt Sedensky associated press NEW YORK — The…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort walks around the convention floor before the opening session of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in 2016.  Manafort potentially faces up to 80 years in prison and millions of dollars in fines if convicted on all counts in a federal indictment.    (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Friends and classmates place flowers and candles at a memorial before a vigil for Salvatore DiNubile in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017. An argument between teenagers ended up with Caleer Miller and DiNubile, both 16, lying on the ground after taking shots in their chests on Tuesday. Police don’t know what the disagreement…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Derrick Johnson   By Jesse J. Holland Associated Press WASHINGTON — The NAACP turned to an insider last Saturday to help bring the nation’s oldest civil rights organization back to prominence. Derrick Johnson, 49, of Jackson, Mississippi, was hired as the NAACP’s 19th president and CEO after having served as interim leader since…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Fats Domino photographed in New Orleans in 2007.  Domino died Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017.  He was 89.  (Editorial credit: Greg Miles / Shutterstock.com) associated press NEW ORLEANS — Fats Domino, the amiable rock ‘n’ roll pioneer whose steady, pounding piano and easy baritone helped change popular music while honoring the traditions of the Crescent…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Robert Guillaume at the “The Phantom of the Opera” Play Los Angeles Premiere at the Pantages,Theater on June 17, 2015 in Los Angeles, CA.  Guillaume died Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017 from a battle with prostate cancer.  He was 89.  (Photo: Shutterstock)   associated press NEW YORK — Robert Guillaume, who rose from squalid beginnings…

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