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The Bruins (56-6) were one out from the title when Shay Knighton homered in the top of the seventh to tie the game at 4-4 for the Sooners (56-7). As she rounded the bases Garcia smiled. SOUTH HAMPTON, N.H. (AP) – A New Hamp“Its an inside joke” said Garcia. “ I literally looked at shire man got a big surprise as he went to close up his iPad. each one of my teammates and said we’re gonna be ok we’re A bat was wedged between the back of the device and its gonna punch back.” cover and bit his finger. The game was closer than the 16-3 open win in game Roy Syvertson, of South Hampton, tells WMUR-TV one.“Yesterday was kind of a game where you just kind of it felt like a bee sting at first. When he realized he was dealgot to flush it, got to let it go,” said Oklahoma’s Sydney ing with a bat, he pressed down on the cover to keep it Malia Quarles (10) of Cerritos is greeted by teammates after hitting a go ahead homer during WCWS. (UCLA from flying away. Continued on page A6 The 86-year-old managed to get the bat outside but courtesy photo) later found him dead. It turned out that the bat was rabid. Syvertson went to the hospital for rabies treatments. When asked how the bat got into his house and iPad case last week, Syvertson had a ready-made response. He quipped: “My joke of, ‘He probably knew my password,’ won’t last forever.”
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Central Park Five Doc Debuts By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent The morning after Ava DuVernay’s four-part Netflix miniseries about the Central Park Five, “When They See Us,” premiered at Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theater, she was in a daze. “I don’t drink, and I don’t do any other kinds of substances,” she told Rolling Stone, “but I think I have a hangover.” She had the headache, but also the hazy memory of the community she’d felt the previous night, screening her labor of love in the neighborhood that raised the five teenagers wrongfully convicted of brutally raping jogger Trisha Meili on April 19, 1989. It was a whirlwind of fellowship that involved “a lot of smiles, hugs, and a lot of tears,” DuVernay said. “When They See Us,” debuted on Netflix on Friday, May 31. The true and gripping tale of five boys of color between the ages of 14 and 16 who were forced to falsely confess to the rape of a white woman in New York’s Central Park, has received critical acclaim with reviewers noting that it’s “impassioned,” and “moving.” One critic said it’s “must-see TV.” We already have a category of movies that we expect to artfully, if painfully edify – think of 12 Years a Slave, or Schindler’s List – but we’re not acculturated to it on television, said Willa Paskin of Slate Magazine. On April 19, 1989, the lives of Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, and Korey Wise changed forever. News media described them as “a wolf pack,” and “animals,” and then-citizen Donald Trump took out a fullpage ad in four New York City area newspapers attacking the youth and calling for the return of the death penalty. Decades after they’d been exonerated, Trump still has refused to rescind his damning words against the men and he even denounced a multi-million civil settlement reached between New York City and the five men. “Trump was the fire starter,” Salaam said. “Common
CHICAGO (AP) – New research suggests that states that expanded Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act eliminated racial differences in being able to quickly start on treatment after a diagnosis of advanced cancer. The law that is often called “Obamacare” let states expand Medicaid eligibility and offer subsidies to help people buy health insurance. Yale University researchers used electronic health records on 36,000 patients across the United States to gauge its impact. Before the law, 5% fewer blacks were starting treatment within a month of their cancer diagnoses. In states that expanded Medicaid, that difference went away. Results were featured Sunday at a cancer conference in Chicago.
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citizens were being manipulated and swayed into believing that we were guilty.” The police-coerced confessions were the only evidence against them, but racism made the boys convenient scapegoats and metaphors for all that had gone wrong in a stratified, corrupt, crime-ridden, rape-infested, and fearful New
York City, according to Slate. DuVernay, who took on the project after Santana suggested it to her via tweet, wants to dramatize what the criminal justice system and New York City stole from these innocent teenagers. The series begins on the day of the rape. Antron Continued on page A2
Queen of Creole Cuisine’ and Civil Rights Icon
Chef Leah Chase Dies at 96
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent Known as the “Queen of Creole Cuisine,” Leah Chase carved out quite the niche in and around New Orleans for more than six decades. During that time, she fed individuals like Quincy Jones, Jesse Jackson, Duke Ellington, Thurgood Marshall, James Baldwin, Ray Charles, Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama and countless others as Executive Chef of Dooky Chase’s Restaurant — one of the best-known and most culturally significant restaurants in New Orleans. “If your soul is in New Orleans, I know what to give you,” Chase once said in response to being asked if she served soul food. “I’m going to give you some jambalaya. I can give you some stewed chicken. I can give you some shrimp Creole,” she said. The renowned cook and freedom fighter, Chase died on Saturday, June 1. She was 96. “Her daily joy was not simply cooking but preparing meals to bring people together. One of her most prized contributions was advocating for the Civil Rights Movement through feeding those on the front lines of the struggle for human dignity,” Chase’s family said in a statement announcing her death. “She saw her role and that of Dooky Chase’s Restaurant to serve as a vehicle for social change during a difficult time in our country’s history,” the family said. Born on January 6, 1923 in New Orleans, Chase was
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one of 14 children. She was raised in the small town of Madisonville, Louisiana. There were no high schools for black children, so after sixth grade, Chase moved to New Orleans to live with an aunt, according to her official biography. After completing high school, Chase had a colorful work history including managing two amateur boxers and becoming the first woman to mark the racehorse board for a local bookie. Her favorite job, though, was waiting tables in the French Quarter. It was there that she developed her love for food and feeding others. In 1946, she married local musician Edgar “Dooky” Chase Jr., whose father had opened a street corner stand selling lottery tickets and his wife’s homemade po’boy sandwiches. Eventually, Leah and Dooky Jr. took over the business, which by then had become a sit-down restaurant and a favorite local gathering place. In a town deeply divided by segregation, Dooky Chase’s Restaurant was one of the only public places in New Orleans where mixed race groups could meet to discuss strategy for the local Civil Rights Movement. Although such gatherings were illegal through most of the 1960s, Dooky Chase’s was so popular; it would have caused a public uproar if local law enforcement had interrupted the meetings.
Man Who Helped Desegregate School in 50s Gets Diploma
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) – An 84-year-old man who was among the first five black students to enroll at a Delaware high school finally has his diploma. The Delaware News Journal reports Salesianum High School in Wilmington gave a diploma to Fred Smith on Friday. Smith and four other black students enrolled at Salesianum in 1950, four years before the Brown v. Board of Education case that dismantled school segregation. The Army drafted Smith while the four other men graduated. After two years in the Army, Smith went straight to a job so he could support his mother and two younger siblings. He never graduated. After he received his degree from the Catholic school on Friday, Smith returned to Citibank, where he still works the overnight shift, 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.
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Her daily joy was not simply cooking but preparing meals to bring people together.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Comedian Tracy Morgan will host The ESPYs honoring the year’s top sports performances and achievements. The star of “The Last O.G.” will preside over the annual show airing live July 10 on ABC from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Previous hosts include Danica Patrick, Samuel L. Jackson, Jon Hamm and Lance Armstrong.
“Her daily joy was not simply cooking but preparing meals to bring people together. One of her most prized contributions was advocating for the Civil Rights Movement through feeding those on the front lines of the struggle for human dignity,” Chase’s family said in a statement announcing her death. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Blake Nelson)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Crisis. Emergency. California lawmakers are describing the state’s housing crunch in dire terms. But few seem to agree on what to do about it. The political wrangling over the last few weeks around bills to cap rent increases, set new rules for evictions and cut red tape to build more housing reveal big splits in the Legislature when it comes to one of the most pressing issues of the session. The state Assembly passed a bill capping rent increases at 7% plus inflation for some tenants. That bill now goes to the state Senate. But proposed rules on evictions have not gotten a vote. And a bill that would encourage building more homes in some areas will not get a vote this year.