Good morning! It’s going to be a sunny day in the Qcity. The weatherman is calling for a high of 53°. Tonight expect light variable winds and a low around 31°.

Here’s what’s brewing in the news:

Evicted CHA commissioner wants back on board

Lucille Puckett, who was evicted by the Charlotte Housing Authority from her apartment in a public housing complex last month, wants to finish her term on the agency’s board. Puckett reportedly plans to attend a committee meeting of the housing authority this afternoon because she believes authority leaders did not follow proper procedures in saying she could no longer serve on the board. (Read more)

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Life for Mumia Abu-Jamal

Just days before the 30th anniversary of the arrest of former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal, the Philadelphia district attorney announced yesterday that he is dropping the pursuit of the death penalty against the former radio reporter, who was convicted in the 1981 murder of a police officer. Abu-Jamal, 58, will serve a life sentence. (Read more)



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The Color of Abortion

A bill has been introduced in Congress that seeks to “prohibit discrimination against the unborn on the basis of sex or race.” The Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglas Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act of 2011 will criminalize the failure of medical professionals to investigate a women’s motivation for aborting their babies to determine if it’s a form of discrimination. The bill is sponsored by Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), who said giving female and black babies the same right to life as white male babies the “civil rights struggle that will define our generation.” This is also the same man that said that due to high rates of abortion in the black community, blacks were better off during slavery. (Read more)
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Couple enter guilty plea in death of toddler

Shanna Lanham of Gaston County woman and her boyfriend, Jason Wells - a registered sex offender - pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Lanham’s 2-year-old daughter, Addison Lanham. The child died in July after the couple refused to seek medical treatment for her broken leg and blood from an untreated infection entered her blood stream. Prosecutors say there were signs that the toddler had been physically and sexually abused, but there was not enough evidence to file charges. (Read more)
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