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The Afro-American, September 28, 2013 - October 4, 2013
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The Afro-American Newspapers
Baltimore Office • Corporate Headquarters 2519 N. Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4602 410-554-8200 • Fax: 1-877-570-9297 www.afro.com Founded by John Henry Murphy Sr., August 13, 1892 Washington Publisher Emerita - Frances L. Murphy II Chairman of the Board/Publisher - John J. Oliver, Jr. Executive Assistant - Takiea Hinton - 410-554-8222 Receptionist - Wanda Pearson - 410-554-8200 Director of Advertising Lenora Howze - 410-554-8271 - lhowze@afro.com Baltimore Advertising Manager Robert Blount - 410-554-8246 - rblount@afro.com Director of Finance - Jack Leister - 410-554-8242 Archivist - Ja-Zette Marshburn - 410-554-8265 Director, Community & Public Relations Diane W. Hocker - 410-554-8243 Editorial Executive Editor - Avis Thomas-Lester Editor - Dorothy Boulware News Editor - Gregory Dale Production Department - 410-554-8288 Global Markets Director - Benjamin M. Phillips IV - 410-554-8220 - bphillips@afro.com Baltimore Circulation/Distribution Manager Sammy Graham - 410-554-8266
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NATION & WORLD N.Y. Pimp Sentenced to 36 Years for Sex Trafficking
A Brooklyn, N.Y. man will serve 36 years in prison for a string of offenses connected to his actions as a pimp, including multiple counts of sex trafficking, and transporting an individual to engage in prostitution. Jeremy Naughton, 32, also known as “Jerms Black” was found guilty following a 14-day trial of forcing a number of female prostitutes between the ages of 19 and 28 to work with him and an accomplice. According to authorities, between January 2009 and fall 2010, Naughton and a friend, Charles Anderson, 26 of Brooklyn, contacted the women through online ads for prostitution services and, meeting in-person, assaulted and threatened the women with a handgun or physical violence into working for them. Among a myriad of criminal acts, Department of Justice officials said Naughton imprisoned women, forced them to perform sex acts on him and others, stole cell phones and money from them, and transported them between New York, Maryland, and other states. In a plea agreement, Anderson told authorities that he overheard Naughton physically assaulting women he kept in his room in an apartment the two men shared, and forcing them to perform sex acts. Anderson is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 15. The case was investigated by the Maryland Child Exploitation Task Force and the Maryland Human Trafficking Task Force, organizations of federal, state, and local law enforcement formed in 2007 to rescue human trafficking victims and prosecute offenses.
Texas Voter ID Law Faces New Legal Challenge
A new Texas law requiring voters to present photo ID faces a new challenge after the Texas State Conference of the NAACP and the Mexican American Legislative Caucus of the Texas House of Representatives, or MALC, filed a complaint in federal court Sept. 17 to block implementation of the law.
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The measure, the suit alleges, erects discriminatory barriers to voting in violation of the Voting Rights Act and the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. “The Texas photo ID law is the most restrictive voter ID law in the country, and the Texas legislature rejected numerous amendments that would have mitigated its impact,” Bob Kengle, co-director of the Voting Rights Project, part of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said in a statement. “The evidence will show that large numbers of eligible voters in Texas lack photo ID, that the burden of obtaining photo ID will fall more heavily on minority citizens, and that voter impersonation fraud does not occur at polling places because the existing laws effectively deter it.” A three-judge panel in Washington, D.C., last year declared Texas’ law illegal under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which forced jurisdictions with a history of voting discrimination to obtain federal preclearance before making any changes to their elections laws. However, a Supreme Court ruling in June declared the formula that determines which states are covered by Section 5 to be unconstitutional. Freed from federal oversight, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced the state would immediately implement the voter ID law and its redistricting plan. Proponents of voter ID and similar laws contend that they are necessary to combat voter fraud. Critics argue that the measures combat an almost non-existent problem and, instead, unfairly targets minorities. In their suit, filed in the Southern District of Texas, the Texas NAACP and MALC argued that the voter ID law violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act because it was enacted specifically to exclude thousands of minority citizens from the political process, a discriminatory purpose that violates the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The attorneys representing the civic groups in the case are the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, Law Offices of Jose Garza, the national office of the NAACP, Law Office of Robert S. Notzon, PotterBledsoe LLP, Dechert LLP, and Law Office of William Bonilla, P.C.
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