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WEEKLY NEWSLETTER

NUMBER 8

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Snapshots, September 27 - October 3 BLACK FIRST OFFENDERS TARGETED IN CONNECTICUT

U.S. Border Patrol Agent on horseback whipping a UNE

uneven Connecticut justice

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), stalemate source

Democrat Stalemate Continues The Democratic impasse in Congress over President Biden's proposed $3.5 trillion in infrastructure spending over the next 10 years continued, seemingly without resolution. Though progressives are resolved to keep the social safety net in the bill, the real roadblock is in the Senate, where two Democrats - Joe Manchin (WV) and more notably Kyrsten Sinema (AZ) - refuse to budge in their opposition to the price tag. Most puzzling is Sinema, previously a champion for progressive causes, who seems unmoved to help the most vulnerable, or even to negotiate the price tag. Speculation surrounds her cozy relationship with her mega-rich campaign donors, who despise tax increases.

Hispanic and Black defendants accused of a crime with no prior criminal history were convicted at rates 5% and 6% higher, respectively, than white defendants without any criminal history in 2019 across Connecticut — confirming data that previously highlighted racial discrepancies in the justice system, a new analysis shows. But the first-of-its-kind data analysis of case dispositions throughout Connecticut courthouses also found that defendants with prior convictions had almost identical rates of conviction, regardless of race. It is the first time analysts have been able to pair criminal history with case dispositions, and they found greater racial disparities typically occur in the judicial system when defendants of color enter the system for the first time. LINK: https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hcnews-prosecutor-data-analysis-20211003cavvdtsy7zafvicqf36uo34phestory.html#nt=latestnews&rt=chartbeat-flt

Black Georgia Woman Stages KKK False Flag Terresha Lucas, 30, is accused of pretending to be a white male member of the Ku Klux Klan and placing notes in the mailboxes of residents in the Brookmont neighborhood of Douglasville on at least six occasions, saying she would burn down their homes and kill them, per a statement by the local police department published September 30y.

Photo Of The Week

R. Kelly Found Guilty

Child of Africa

Singer R. Kelly has been found guilty of exploiting his superstar status to run a scheme to sexually abuse women and children over two decades. Eleven accusers - nine women and two men - took the stand over the searing sixweek trial to describe sexual humiliation and violence at his hands.

After two days of deliberation, the jury found the US star guilty on all nine charges he was facing. Sentencing is due on 4 May and he could spend the rest of his life behind bars.

This Week In Black History WC Handy published "Memphis Blues" the first Blues Song, 1912 WGPR-TV Detroit, first Black-owned station in US, began broadcasting in 1975 Jazz legend Miles Davis dies, 1991 Sir William Arthur Lewis, of the Caribbean island of St. Lucia becomes the first black to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1979 Brooklyn Dodger Joe Black became the first black pitcher to win a World Series game, 1952 James Meredith became first Black student at University of Mississippi--after 3000 federal troops quelled riots against his admission, 1962 1st black-owned and operated radio station (WERD in Atlanta) launches, 1949 Thurgood Marshall sworn in as the first Black Supreme Court Justice, 1967 Nigeria declared independent from UK, 1960 NOTABLE BIRTHS: Hiram R. Revels (1827-1901), first African American U.S. senator; actor Greg Morris (1934 - 1996); TV personality Bryant Gumbel (1948); Rock and Roll singer Chubby Checker (1941); Grammy Award winning singer Johnny Mathis (1935); R&B singer Donny Hathaway (1945 - 1979); Willie L. Williams (1943-2016), first African American Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (1992-97); Freedom fighter Nat Turner (1800 1831); Legal eagle Johnny L. Cochran (1937 2005)

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