Family demands answers in fatal Birmingham police shooting: ‘I just want to see my baby,’ grieving mom says
Updated Apr 14, 2021;
The grieving parents of a 28-year-old man who police say died in an Easter Sunday armed confrontation with Birmingham police are demanding answers in the slaying.
His father, Desmon Ray Sr., and mother Lashonda Wilson held a news conference Wednesday outside police headquarters. They were joined by their attorneys Johnathan F. Austin and Richard Rice.
The family said they have not been allowed to see their son’s body since he was fatally shot by police and have not heard from police or city officials since the shooting 10 days ago, despite repeated requests.
Turner is among the candidates seeking to represent Ohio s 11th Congressional District. Author: Dave Dino DeNatale, Associated Press Published: 4:41 PM EDT April 15, 2021 Updated: 4:41 PM EDT April 15, 2021
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As she continues her campaign to represent Ohio s 11th Congressional District, Nina Turner is set to hold a discussion on Thursday evening featuring local and national labor leaders.
The virtual event will begin at 7:00 p.m. and feature the following panel of experts:
Joshua Brewer, Alabama RWDSU Organizer
Harriet Applegate, Former Executive Secretary Ohio Northshore AFL-CIO
William Nix, President ATU Local 268
Daleo Freeman, President APWU Local 72
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This Week in Lincolnville: A Dream Come True
..the day they didn’t need me
Diane O’Brien Mon, 01/25/2021 - 11:30am
The Bean Supper assembly line saw that everyone got what they ordered: vegetarian or not, gluten or not, and plenty of coleslaw and cookies.
Photo by Diane O’Brien
As I drove away from the Historical Society the other day, even as cars were arriving, one after another to drop off food, it felt like a dream come true. The downstairs dining room, home of the Improvement Association for the past 50 or so years, was bustling with activity, as huge pans of beans and mountains of coleslaw were laid out, assembly-line fashion. The biscuits I’d just taken out of the oven, my one contribution to the effort, waited their place in the line, along with those of the other biscuit-makers. Cookies, cookies, cookies – gluten-free and gluten-full – completed the menu.
Spy Novels Made Me a Better Black Woman Writer
How novelist Aya de León challenged the James Bond trope and found her voice. Jan 12 2021, 2:45 pm EST
When I was a senior in high school, I had an older boyfriend in community college. I watched my first 1960s James Bond movies with him. “Connery was the only real Bond,” he told me with his confident, lopsided grin. He was mad that George Lazenby, not Sean Connery, starred in the one Bond movie where the spy fell in love. His wife is killed right after the wedding, so Bond is technically a widower.