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Blacks Must Control Their Own Community
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To The Unconquerable Host of Africans Who Are Laying Their Sacrifices Upon The Editorial Altar For Their Race VOLUME LXXV NUMBER 29—SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2015
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A final goodbye to Gus Savage Chicago Crusader staff report
Gone too soon Black community grapples with the killing of Tyshawn Lee as police gets closer to an arrest By Chinta Strausberg Standing near the alley at 80th and Damen where 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee was “executed,” Father Michael L. Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina Parish, 1210 W. 78th Pl., Tuesday called for the immediate arrest of the killers regardless if they were youths or adults. “We want them (the killers) caught today, and if people are hiding them, charge them,” Pfleger told reporters. On behalf of St. Sabina, Pfleger donated Tyshawn Lee $5,000 towards the reward. Before the press conference, Pfleger held flyers announcing an $11,000 reward. However, Pfleger, who was accompanied by scores of supporters, including: Pastor Ira Acree, Greater St. John Bible Church; Rev. Darius Dionte Randle, Resurrection House Baptist Church; activist Mark Allen; Rev. Matthew S. O’Donnell, St. Columbanus Church, who donated $1,000 which, raised the reward to $17,000; and members of
Purpose Over Pain, including Pam Bosley and Annette Nance-Holt. By Crusader press time, the reward was $35,000. The funeral for Tyshawn will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, November 10 at Saint Sabina, 1210 W 78th Place. The service will be preceded by a wake at 10 a.m.On Wednesday, November 4, police said they had a person of interest after a man who was accompanied by his attorney, turned himself in. Some police say Tyshawn “was at the
wrong place at the wrong time” while others said he was killed by an “unknown” person with “unknown motives.” There was no proof that Tyshawn was killed in retaliation of a family member who may have had negative dealings with a gang. When Tyshawn was shot Monday afternoon, Pfleger was called to the scene. After rushing to the site, Pfleger said, “It was a horrible, horrible scene. I talked to the father and two of the grandmothers. There were possible stories that this may have (Continued on page 3)
All his life Congressman Augustus “Gus” Savage worked tirelessly to achieve opportunities and civil right for Blacks. On Saturday, November 7, Savage will take his final rest. Hundreds will celebrate his life and legacy at his funeral at 11 a.m. at Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, 1257 W. 111th St. Savage died October 31, one day after celebrating his 90th birthday. He leaves behind a distinguished career in politics and journalism. Since his death, leaders have sent in tributes praising Savage as trailblazing newspaper publisher and public servant who paved the way for many Blacks in politics. Congressman Danny K. Davis said “Congressman Savage was a community activist, an organizer, a consistent advocate and a passionate fighter in his efforts to create a more open and just society.” Congressman Bobby Rush told the press that Savage “had a spirit that was incomGus Savage parable. He was a tireless worker for human rights and for justice.” Dorothy R. Leavell, editor and publisher of the Chicago Crusader, remembers Savage as a dedicated journalist. “Gus was a real newspaper man and a diehard activist. I met him shortly after I came to Chicago in 1961 and I counted him as a friend over all of these years. I sponsored the newspaper in the National Newspaper Pub(Continued on page 2)
Did Ebony’s cover backfire? By Erick Johnson
Cliff, Clair, Sondra, Theo, Vanessa and Rudy Huxtable. Every week inside their immaculate Brownstone in Brooklyn, millions of viewers saw two affluent parents with advanced degrees and professional jobs raise a family of wholesome, smart children, who spoke nearly flawless English and attended some of the nation’s most elite universities. On top of that, they were Black. For many viewers, it was just a television sitcom known as “The Cosby Show.” But for millions of Blacks, it was more than that. It was a groundbreaking sitcom that impacted Black culture perhaps more than any other show in television history.
Nearly a quarter century after “The Cosby Show” took its final bow, the Huxtable clan is back, its image shattered on the cover of Ebony Magazine. At the center of the fractured image is family patriarch Cliff Huxtable, played by Bill Cosby whose face is the most fractured in the group. While some readers say the cover sparks long overdue conversations about family life and Cosby, many readers say Ebony crossed the line by linking the actors’ personal life with the wholesome but fictional lives of a television family that many Blacks aspired to become. Despite the success of other Black sitcoms and drama, “The Cosby Show” was the most important and perhaps the only example that portrays the Black family in the best light. For some (Continued on page 7)