The Bobby Tillman Story: GA Teen Randomly Beaten to Death

March 10, 2011 Front Page, Problems 2 Comments

He said it best! Tupac speaks out on teen violence and the aftermath suffering that mothers experience, “If she [the mother] is strong enough to keep going and make a difference than I can be strong enough to make a difference. What we need to do as a community is start to take back control of our communities. I understand it’s always going to be drug dealing. And I understand it’s always going to be violence but, we just need to regulate it so we can at least have a peace resolve. Or else we gonna all die..we all gonna to be destroyed.”

Quantez Devonta Mallory, Horace Damon Coleman, Emmanuel Benjamin Boykins and Tracen Lamar Franklin were the teenagers accused of stomping Tillman to death in the November 2010 attack at a house party. According to a report in the Atlanta Journal Constitution- Douglas County District Attorney David McDade says he consulted Tillman’s family before telling the defendants that they have until June 8, 2011 to make a guilty plea or risk the death penalty at trial.

Please watch the video to witness the heart-breaking story told from a mother’s eyes.

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Lashunda

The Danger of Celebratory Gunfire

January 24, 2011 Front Page, Problems No Comments

Celebratory gunfire is the shooting of a firearm into the air in celebration. It is culturally accepted in different parts of the world as well as some areas of the United States. The common occasions for celebratory gunfire for the United States are New Years Eve and Independence Day.

It is not possible to predict where a bullet is going to land after it’s discharged into the air so celebratory gunfire is dangerous and can cause injury and death to a random person struck by a stray bullet. Celebratory gunfire has claimed the lives of many including, a 4 year old boy named Marquel Peters who was attending a New Year Eve’s church service at a church called the church of God of Prophecy in Decatur, Ga. On the night of January 1,2010 just 20 minutes into the New Year Marquel was playing with his gameboy while he and his mother were waiting for a concert at the church to begin, when a bullet came through the roof and struck Marquel in the head.

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Oscar

R.I.P America’s Little Angel

January 14, 2011 Front Page, Problems 1 Comment

Christina Taylor Green was the youngest victim killed in the Tucson, Arizona shooting massacre that occurred last Saturday on January 8, 2011. She was an innocent bystander that was brought to the location of the massacre to meet Rep. Gabrielle Clifford because of her interest in Democracy. The 3rd grader had an interest in politics and had been recently elected in her student council. She was also the only girl on her little league team.

Christina was featured in a book called “Faces of hope”. This special book Chronicled one baby from each state that was born on 9/11, the day when terrorists attacked America killing thousands of innocent people. Thursday, January 13, 2011, less than a week after her death, Christina was laid to rest. Her funeral was the first funeral out of the 6 people murdered in that horrific event that occurred. More than 2,000 people packed the church just to attend this little girls “homecoming”, as a preacher would say.