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VOLUME LXXVI NUMBER 34—SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2016
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Black Lives Matter takes new approach
By J. Coyden Palmer During the summer of 2014, Black Lives Matter was established in response to the killing of Black men by police. The organization has now grown into a more diverse tool to address many of today’s most pivotal social issues. With sudden success and growth comes challenges, in particular, controlling the image of
BLM; promoting the organization’s original values; protecting it from infiltrators; and remaining a part of the public conversation while not drawing the ire of an overzealous federal government that has historically sought to destroy African-American liberation groups. One of the most important philosophies of BLM is there is no leadership structure. It is something that was done purposely, according
to Kofi Ademola, one of the few people in the BLM movement that gives official statements to members of the media. Ademola said BLM has learned from past mistakes made by Civil Rights organizations: having leaders, who can be assassinated, corrupted or “lose their way.” During a sit-down meeting with the Crusader staff last month, Ademola said BLM does most of its organizing via social media and decisions
on what issues to tackle and which ones to leave alone are done horizontally and democratically. He also said BLM is spending more time debunking falsehoods about the organization, shutting down rogue BLM chapters and organizing grassroots campaigns to address issues that affect the most vulnerable members of society. (Continued on page 19)
Student saves his grandmother’s life with CPR By Patrick Forrest There’s probably not a day that goes by without a report of someone dying from cardiac arrest in the news or in our personal lives. More than 350,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests happen each year in the United States with 70 percent occurring in homes. Although Cynthia Luckett’s heart attack occurred at home, she did not join the 90 percent of those people who die because of her grandson, Adam McKinney. Divine intervention is what Nicole McKinney called the actions that her son, Adam, took to save his grandmother, Cynthia Luckett’s life with CPR on Nov. 10. She had fallen into cardiac arrest, actions that he was recognized for by the Chicago Fire Department at a ceremony at
Percy Julian High School on Dec. 6. He was recognized by B.A.M. (Becoming A Man) counselor Troy Withers, who is seen as a mentor for Adam by his family. “I put a lot of it on Divine intervention.” Nicole said, “I believe in God and everything that I have and do or happens is guided by God (Continued on page 2)
INSIDE THIS ISSUE ADAM McKINNEY HOLDS his CPR Certification plaque as he poses with his family and Counselor Troy Withers at the Percy Julian High School awards ceremony where he was honored. McKinney is credited for the quick actions, performing CPR, that saved his grandmother’s life. Both his grandmother, Cynthia Luckett (center), and his mother, Nicole McKinney (far left), say Divine intervention played a key role. Had Adam’s sister Destiny (2nd from left) not heard her grandmother struggling for breath and alerted her mother immediately, Adam’s efforts would have been in vain.
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