In light of the current state of affairs in America following the alleged murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin, RJ Payne re-releases "Drums of War."
The Pa. Dre-produced song captures the frustration many African Americans are feeling as police seem to be able to kill us with impunity.
Rapper and community activist, Lil O-Dawg, takes fans on a tour of the mean streets of South Miami, where ain't nothing sweet. O-Dawg talks about the crab in a bucket mentality that's pervasive in the hood and the need for the community to unify, dead the black-on-black crime, come up financially and much more.
FAST FACTS: *Approximately 90 students at Frayser High School are pregnant or have recently given birth
*The startling numbers fall in line with high teen pregnancy rates in the entire Frayser community
*A new initiative to help combat the problem will soon be introduced
About 90 students at a Memphis High School are either pregnant, or have been recently.
The startling news was confirmed by a high ranking city official and comes as the community plans to roll out a new initiative to help combat the problem.
However, one Frayser High School graduate says teen pregnancy is not a new problem for the school.
"When we would come back from summer break, there would be a thousand people pregnant. We were like, what's going on?" joked Alicia Williamson, who graduated from Frayser in 2004.
"There were a whole lot of bellies. You had to watch out so you didn't bump into them. Being 2011, I thought a lot of them would have thought this is not the right way to go, having babies during school time," she added.
The organization, Girls, Inc. teaches girls about preventing pregnancy.
Deborah Hester Harrison, who heads the organization, says Memphis' teen pregnancy rate stands at between 15 and 20 percent, almost twice the national average.
In the Frayser zip code, the rate is about 26 percent. Harrison partly blames the media.
"So much of our society is sexually oriented. As adults we can look at that and it doesn't impact us, but kids are different," Harrison said.
It's why Girls, Inc. offers classes where teenage girls "care for" computerized babies to give them a feel for what teenage parenthood is like.
The organization will also be part of a new initiative tentatively scheduled to be introduced next week.
A Georgia history teacher is in hot water after allowing several students to wear KKK robes to school for a play.
Catherine Ariemma, who teaches at Lumpkin County High School was suspended by the school after several African American students and one parent complained.
It's understandable that students would be upset. They were eating lunch when the students wearing KKK robes strolled through the cafeteria. None of the students at lunch had any idea the outfits were for a school play.
Ariemma says she made the mistake of letting her students walk through the cafeteria because she wasn't thinking. Her class has first period lunch. Another teacher confronted her afterwards.
"That's when I heard there were a couple of students who were upset," Ariemma said.
School Superintendent Dewey Maye told the Associated Press. "This stuff happened in history, Do you ignore it? No. But you certainly don't walk the hallway in the garb."
Student Cody Rider told WSB-TV he was ready to take care of the situation himself if need be.
"I was sitting in the lunchroom and my little cousin taps me on the shoulder -- he's also African-American -- and he was scared," he said. "There was fear in his eyes. I was like, 'What is it? I looked up and they just walked through the lunchroom in white sheets. So, I mean me, I got mad and stood up and I tried to go handle it."
Ariemma, who has taught at the school for six years, feels like she made a poor decision, but would accept her fate if she is fired.
"I am a good teacher, I speak the truth, I tell the truth. I suppose if some decides it's the end, it's the end."
It probably is the end and with good reason in my opinion.
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