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Demetrius Walker, public speaker and writer

Houston, TX — Writer, Demetrius Walker, has launched CapitalizeTheB.com, a website that calls for all media, schools, and others to use an uppercase “B” when referring to Black people.

Walker believes the “B” in Black should always be capitalized to acknowledge the people of the African Diaspora (more than 1 Billion people). By definition, black with a lowercase b is merely a color in a crayon box; Black represents culture and people. “Writing about Black people with a lowercase b is therefore insulting,” he says.

He adds, “The absence of light is black; this does not define my people. We are Black – connected by rhythm, roots, and a light that cannot be extinguished.”

CapitalizeTheB.com serves as the launching pad for a social media movement designed to raise awareness of the incorrect grammatical usage of the lowercase “b” as currently written to denote Black people. The site encourages people to follow its Twitter and Instagram pages, while also referring people to professor Lori L. Tharps’ petition to the New York Times and AP stylebook.

For more details, visit www.CapitalizeTheB.com

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Young Talented Entrepreneur Gunned Down in His Popular New Jersey Sneaker Store

21-year old entrepreneur, Jamal Gaines

Rahway, NJ — 21-year old Jamal “Mally” Gaines, the owner of a local sneaker store called East Coast Sneakers, was recently shot and killed just as he was closing up his shop for the day. Gaines had just recently overcame a car accident and partial blindness, and had found success running a thriving business.

Gaines had started the company when he was just 18 years old after he sold most of his 500-pair collection and invested in setting up his own storefront. However, it didn’t initially catch on and he was forced to close just a few months later. But Gaines did not give up. He took on a job at FedEx until he saved enough to give it another shot, and six months later, in the summer of 2013, he opened his second boutique. Some of his shoes sold for up to $1,200 a pair.

So what happened?

Local media outlets report that Gaines closed the shop as usual around 8pm, and later some men pounded on the back door. Gaines, having no idea who they were, told a friend to let them in.

Gaines’ mother, Tina Wilson, then says that one of the guys “pushed his arm and put the gun to his head, so my son threw a drink on the guy with a gun and ran toward him. And the second guy shot him.” The men reportedly did not steal any money or inventory.

Gaines’ business partner, who goes by the name of SoleyGhost, comments, “They didn’t get money, they didn’t get sneakers. They just got Mally. I lost a best friend and a business partner over nothing. Zero.” He and other friends of Gaines plan to keep the store going to preserve his legacy.

But Rahway is much safer compared to other cities in New Jersey, right?

Yes, the city of Rahway is no where near as dangerous as other cities like Newark. Authorities say that Gaines’ death marked just the first gun homicide this year in the city of Rahway. Last year, in 2015, there were only two gun murders in the city of more than 28,000.

Meanwhile, this past Saturday, hundreds of friends, family, and community members flooded the street in front of the shop, holding candles, sharing memories, and voicing outrage about Gaines’s death.

How to Help

Send flowers, cards, and or donations to:

The Family of Jamal Gaines
East Coast Boutique
1546 Irving Street
Rahway, NJ 07065

(or make a donation online

Oops! Did Bernie Sanders Mean to Imply That All Black People Live in the Ghetto?

Nationwide — When CNN’s Don Lemon asked Senator Bernie Sanders to address his racial blind spots during the Democratic debate this past Sunday, his response was more controversial than he may have realized. He answered, “When you’re white, you don’t know what it’s like to be living in a ghetto. You don’t know what it’s like to be poor. You don’t know what it’s like to be poor. You don’t know what it’s like to be hassled when you walk down the street or you get dragged out of a car.”

With that one simple statement, it became clear to millions that Sanders was implying that “the black experience” in America is limited to people who are poor and living in low-income areas. And such a statement is obviously very offensive to African Americans, especially those who live in middle-class and even upper-class parts of the country.

Lilly Workneh, a Huffington Post columnist, wrote:

Sanders missed four major points:

* There are plenty of black people who aren’t poor.
* There are plenty of black people who don’t live in ghettos.
* There are plenty of white people who are poor.
* There are plenty of white people who live in ghettos.

The truth is that although the national poverty rate among black households is 26 percent, that still leaves 76% of Black households who are not considered poor. It can even be said based on those statistics that most African Americans are not poor.

But how did Secretary of State Hillary Clinton answer to the same question?

Her answer, according to critics, was actually a good one.

She said:

Well, Don, if I could, I think being a white person in the United States of America, I know that I have never had the experience that so many people, the people in this audience have had. And I think it’s incumbent upon me and what I have been trying to talk about during this campaign is to urge white people to think about what it is like to have “the talk” with your kids, scared that your sons or daughters, even, could get in trouble for no good reason whatsoever like Sandra Bland and end up dead in a jail in Texas.

And I have spent a lot of time with the mothers of African-American children who have lost them, Trayvon Martin’s mother. And I’ve gotten to know them. I’ve listened to them. And it has been incredibly humbling because I can’t pretend to have the experience that you have had and others have had. But I will do everything that I possibly can to not only do the best to understand and to empathize, but to tear down the barriers of systemic racism that are in the criminal justice system, in the employment system, in the education and health care system.

That is what I will try to do to deal with what I know is the racism that still stalks our country.

Democrats better at talking to Blacks?

Political analysts say that’s the difference between Republicans and Democrats. Democrats, they say, typically know how to talk to people of color, especially African-Americans.

Jonathan Capehart, a writer for the Washington Post, says, “As a former first lady of Arkansas, former first lady of the United States and former Senator from New York, Clinton can speak to Blacks with a fluency that lets African Americans know she gets it and gets them.”

But some African-Americans have also been criticizing Clinton’s response to recent questions about when her husband, former President Bill Clinton, created the “three strikes and you’re out rule” which led to the imprisonment of more African American men during his presidency than any other president in history.