Jax NAACP: Its Time for Some Action Shoe Last Week, the Company’S Shares Have Seen a Sizable Increase and So Has Its Market Value
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The Jacksonville receive the customary standard officer be suspended without pay The sneakers, called The Air Max 1 USA, were designed with the branch of the NAACP internal review. until the investigation is complete. “Betsy Ross Flag” on the heel, a flag that has 13 stars in a circle to rep- released a statement this The incident surrounds 47-year- “It’s just getting out of hand and resent the 13 colonies in the United States at the time. week condemning the old suspect, Todaryl Britt. The man here we go again, with the same It was also flown during slavery, which Kaepernick reminded Nike of. actions of a Jacksonville was arrested on several outstanding thing over and over again,” said Plus, the flag has been used by white supremacist groups as a response police officer who charges and an additional charge of NACCP Branch President Isaiah to the increasing diversity in the United States, so Nike decided to pull appears to repeatedly resisting arrest without violence. Rumlin said. "I think, eventually, the shoes altogether. slam a man's head on He is also registered sex offender. the community -- it’s going to get Since the shoes were pulled, Nike’s shares have gone up 2 percent, pavement as he and The NAACP's Jacksonville really tired of it and there is no which added almost $3 billion to the company’s market value, reports other officers were branch demanded the actions of the telling what’s going to happen.” Forbes. Kaepernick became a spokesman for Nike in 2011 and last year arresting him in a video. officer be thoroughly reviewed by The State Attorney’s office said it was featured in an ad for its “Just Do It” campaign, which got a lot of According to the both JSO and the Florida is waiting for JSO to review the backlash from the right. But just as it happened with the Betsy Ross Jacksonville Sheriff's Department of Law Enforcement. matter and if JSO thinks there is a sneakers, Nike saw a 5 percent increase after they announced Shown is Britt in footage during his arrest Office, the incident will Other demands include that the problem, then it will investigate. Kaepernick would star in the ad. 5000 Males’ Gets Youth Up Close and Personal With Politics Innocence Project: 2018 was a Recently, 5000 Role Models of Record Year for Exonerations Excellence members from Jean The Innocence Project reported in the most recent issue of its maga- Ribault High School and William zine that a record nine clients were exonerated and released from prison M. Raines High School kicked off in 2018 for crimes they didn’t commit. The nine exonerations were the their Summer Leadership Academy most at one time in Innocence Project’s 26- year history. by attending a legislative town hall The Exonerations continued into 2019 with three more men being hosted by State Representative released from prison for crimes they didn’t commit. The incarcerations Tracie Davis at the Bradham took a problematic toll on the 12 men who were locked behind bars for Brooks Library. a total of nearly 300 years. The 5000 members clad in their Gregory Counts, one of the exonerated said, “I went to jail when I was trademark red ties and black pants, 19. I did 26 years—over half of my life in jail. I need to see the world.” were able to hear Rep. Davis dis- cuss what happened during the 2019 Legislative Session and Cook County is Home to the Largest address state issues that are impor- tant to constituents. Students left Population of African Americans more informed about the 2019 Cook County, Illinois, is home to the largest population of African Legislative Budget, Amendment 4 Americans. But counties in Texas have the fastest-growing black popu- Voting Rights, Guns in Classrooms, lations. Cook County whose biggest city is Chicago, was home to the Texting While Driving and nation’s largest African American population in 2018, with 1. 3 million Hurricane Relief to name a few. residents, the U.S. Census Bureau recently reported. The 5000 Role Models of Shown is State Representative Traci Davis speaking with students: Damari Williams, Demichael Dortch, Harris County, Texas, reported the largest numeric increase of African Excellence is a free enlightenment Erick Wesbter, Marcus Bryant, Aaron Blunt, Eugene Vickers and Burdette Williams on life in politics. Americans between 2017 and 2018, adding 14, 017 blacks to the coun- program for at risk Black males ty’s population. Houston, the county seat of Harris County, has a popu- throughout the state of Florida. with successful professional adult guidance and educational assis- more than 8,000 participants, 6,000 lation of more than 4 million. It is the most populous county in Texas Young males ages 9-19 are paired volunteers, who provide advice, tance. Presently the initiative has volunteers, and continues to grow. and the nation’s third most populous county. The black population grew the fastest in Ellis County, Texas between 2017 and 2018, the Census Bureau reported. Ellis County is located near ACLU Sues State Over Dallas/Fort Worth. population is 149,610. Acclaimed African-American Felon’s Voting Rights Several civil rights organizations tion. The ballot initiative restored Architect Phil Freelom Passes filed a lawsuit against the state of voting rights to residents with Florida after Gov. Ron DeSantis felony convictions who have com- Phil Freelon, an architect who designed buildings ranging from local signed a bill that would require pleted their sentences, with the libraries to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American felons to pay court-ordered finan- exception of those convicted of History and Culture, has died in North Carolina. Freelon was 66 and had cial obligations if they want their murder or a sexual offense. suffered from ALS for several years. voting rights restored. The state's Republican-controlled “I’ll remember him as one of the most gifted architects I’ve ever Florida's new law, SB7066, vio- legislature introduced a bill to curb worked with but also one of the kindest individuals I’ve ever known,” lates the prohibition against poll said Lonnie Bunch, founding director of the African American Museum taxes enshrined in the 24th and now secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, overseeing 19 muse- Amendment, claims a lawsuit ums and other organizations. filed by the American Civil Freelon was a Philadelphia native who worked for years at architec- Liberties Union, the ACLU of tural firms in Texas and North Carolina. When he opened his own firm, Florida, the Brennan Center for he was the only employee. He declined to design prisons, casinos or Justice and NAACP Legal strip shopping malls, instead focusing on libraries, museums and Defense and Educational Fund. schools because he preferred “projects that contribute to society in some The suit filed on behalf of 10 way,” he said in an interview with The Associated Press in February Floridians also claims the law 2017. was at least partly motivated by a racially discriminatory purpose in felon voting rights in March. The Homes of Tubman and Hughes Shown (L-R) is Continental National President Robin T. violation of the 14th Amendment, bill passed both chambers. Browder, Esq., with Jacksonville Chapter Members, Cynthia which granted citizenship to people And while court fees vary per Among 22 Sites Getting Saved Jones-Jackson, Denise Coleman and Patricia Gillum Sams. born or naturalized in the United individual, even the smallest The National Trust for Historic Preservation recently announced more States, and the 15th Amendment amounts can prove difficult for the than $1.6 million in grants to 22 sites and organizations through its Continentals Converge and that prohibits the government from formerly incarcerated. A Harvard African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund. denying a citizen the right to vote University researcher found that the These monies will help maintain poet and scholar Langston Hughes‘ based on race or color or previous median annual income was only house in Harlem, New York, The Harriet Tubman Home in Auburn, NY, Impact the First Coast servitude. about $6,500 for those newly out of the home of Negro League Baseball star Satchel Paige in Kansas City, Recently hundreds of women employment, recreation "This disenfranchisement will be prison. Mo., the Emmett Till Memorial Commission in Summer, Miss., ‘The representing 40 Chapters around (H.E.E.R.), arts and humanities. borne disproportionately by low- "This law will disproportionately Forum’ in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood, the African Meeting the country celebrated 63 years Continental women serve vol- income individuals and racial impact black Floridians with a House in Boston, MA, the oldest existing black church in the U.S., and of service to children at the unteer hours in schools, pediatric minorities, due to longstanding and felony conviction, who face the the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South National Conclave of wards, youth organizations, bar- well-documented racial gaps in intersecting barriers of accessing Carolina, among others.