…..Nichelle Nichols (Star Trek) had the first interracial kiss on American TV….Rosa Parks was the first woman laid to rest at the State Capitol…..President Barack Obama is a two-time Grammy winner…..Nat “The Bush Doctor” Mathis was an inventor and Afro stylist pioneer…..Zelda Wynn Valdes created the first Playboy bunny costume…..Ethel Waters was the first African-American woman to star in her own TV show….Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed 10 years before his assassination…..Jerry Lawson helped create the first video game console….Lonnie Johnson invented the Super Soaker…..Langston Hughes almost missed the Harlem Renaissance…..Ja’Net DuBois co-wrote and sang the theme song for the TV show The Jeffersons.
DC IS VOTING ON A BILL THAT WOULD PAY PEOPLE NOT TO COMMIT CRIMES…..Under this bill, city officials would identify up to 200 people a year who are considered at risk of either committing or becoming victims of violent crime…..and they would be directed to participate in behavioral therapy and other programs…..and if they fulfill those obligations and stay out of trouble…..they would be paid…..it’s based on a program in Richmond, California and advocates say it has contributed to deep reductions in crime there.
SMOKERS IN ITALY HIT WITH NEW FINES TO PROTECT THE YOUNG….And it’s a good law.….people will face up to 500 Euros ($600) if they light up a cigarette in a car with a child or pregnant woman inside…..or if the toss a butt on the street.….the ban also extends to smoking in offices, bars, restaurants, cinemas, pediatric and medical hospitals catering to pregnant women in a bid to cut the estimated 70,000 to 83,000 deaths a year which are attributes to tobacco smoke.
BEEZOW DOO-DOO ZOPITTYBOP-BOPBOP HAS MADE WORLD HEADLINES AFTER BEING ACCUSED OF ASSAULT…..He should’ve been arrest just for changing his real name to that…..his name was Jeffery Drew Wilschke…..but I assume he wasn’t feeling that…..anyway, this clown was charged with two counts of first-degree assault…..third-degree assault…..third-degree malicious mischief as well as malicious harassment…..so the jerk tore down fliers at the Evergreen State College in Washington…..then if that wasn’t enough.….he tried to grab a cops gun…..bit the officer on the finger and stabbed him with a pen……and as if that wasn’t enough….he grabbed the officer’s handcuffs..…swung them in the air…..and bashed him up-side his head..…and while he was running away….he threw rocks and bricks at the cops…..now our boy DOO DOO says his name means….. “The explosion of awareness of the interconnectedness of the infinite love in the universe…..and DOO DOO is the struggle of our daily lives with that awareness, that with love comes chaos”…..well I guess it’s no wonder dude has been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
UNIVERSITY POSTER: ADELE’S “HELLO” ENCOURAGES SEXUAL HARASSMENT….Katherine Timpf wrote this article….and I like her.….the first thing she said was….. “At least now I have a social-justice reason to hate this song”…..according to posters placed around the University of Oklahoma campus.….Hello is consider one of many songs that normalize sexual harassment…..this coming from the Gender+Equality Center…..they have a problem with the lyric “I must have called 1,000 times”…..personally Adele…..you’re a idiot…you should’ve gotten the hint after the tenth time you called.….anyway,….now Katherine said..… “I feel like anyone one who is not completely stupid would realize that the line is meant to be a hyperbole and that no one is actually calling her ex a 1,000 times…..the Media Research Center points out.….if she was calling her ex a 1,000 times it would really constitute harassment…..not sexual harassment…..unless she’s leaving pornographic voicemails…..which would be pretty weird!
JUDGE ASKS PEOPLE TO STOP WEARING PAJAMAS IN COURT.….Judge Craig Long from the Magisterial District in Pennsylvania put up a sign outside his courtroom in Catawissa Township stating..… “Pajamas are NOT appropriate attire for district court”…..even though he admitted it was not a rule that could be enforced by law…..he said it seems to be a growing trend of people wearing their pajamas in public.….yep, just go to Walmart…..I didn’t believe what I was seeing..…until my brother told me it’s a normal thing…..and the same debate is becoming popular in England.
N.F.L. GREAT KEN STABLER HAD BRAIN DISEASE C.T.E…..He was one of the reasons I became an Oakland Raider’s diehard…..on a scale of 1 to 4…..he had high stage 3 chronic traumatic encephalopathy (C.T.E.)…..the list of players who had C.T.E. is well over 100..…including Junior Seau, Mike Webster and Frank Gifford..…whom are Football Hall of Famers…..Tyler Sash (NY Giants died from the same thing)….John Mackey, Dave Dalby, Cookie Gilchrist, Adrian Robinson, Lew Carpenter, Terry Long, Dave Duerson, Tom McHale, John Grimsley…..and the list of living players who suffer from C.T.E…..Harry Carson, Tony Dorsett, Mark Duper, Brett Farve, Jim McMahon, Dorsey Levens, Antwaan Randel El, George Rogers, Steve Smith, Ted Johnson, Willie Wood.….and more..…the number of former players listed as plaintiffs in lawsuits against the NFL for concussion-related injuries received after playing….2,397…..and the list I read…..is incomplete…the NFL reportedly reached a settlement in 2013 with around 4,500 former players…..the list I read contains fewer than half that number.
DEATH BY SUICIDE IN SOUTH AFRICA’S POLICE FORCE HAS REACHED EPIDEMIC LEVELS….Between 2012 and 2013.….115 officers died by suicide..…compared to 29 officers murdered on duty in the South African Police Service (SAPS)…..the number of deaths by suicide was 73.9 per 100,000 officers…..by comparison..…0.9 per 100,000 South Africans die by suicide…..the murder of police officers attracts more media attention than the problem of suicides among officers.