Bring That Week Back: Trayvon's Father Named Honorary Football Captain at FAMU

Plus, Oprah apologizes for media frenzy on Swiss experience.

Trayvon's Father Named Honorary Captain of FAMU Football Team - Jesse Jackson Jr. tells where he'd prefer to serve his sentence, Nas helps raise money for homeless D.C. family and more national headlines. — By LaToya Bowlah and Natelege Whaley  After delivering an inspirational message to FAMU’s football team, Tracy Martin has been named the team’s honorary captain.“[He] got a standing ovation from our guys. He talked about just persevering and told the guys to keep on pushing through the hard times,” said coach Earl Holmes. He is scheduled to do the coin toss at the Rattlers pre-season opener on Sept. 1.  (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Trayvon's Father Named Honorary Captain of FAMU Football Team - Jesse Jackson Jr. tells where he'd prefer to serve his sentence, Nas helps raise money for homeless D.C. family and more national headlines. — By LaToya Bowlah and Natelege Whaley After delivering an inspirational message to FAMU’s football team, Tracy Martin has been named the team’s honorary captain.“[He] got a standing ovation from our guys. He talked about just persevering and told the guys to keep on pushing through the hard times,” said coach Earl Holmes. He is scheduled to do the coin toss at the Rattlers pre-season opener on Sept. 1.  (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Oprah Apologizes for Media Frenzy on Swiss Experience  - Oprah apologized for recalling a racist incident with a store clerk in Switzerland, where she said she was refused from purchasing a $38,000 handbag because it was too expensive, on Entertainment Tonight TV. “I'm sorry that I said it was Switzerland," she said. Oprah explained that it was not meant as an indictment against the country and Switzerland did not need to apologize for her experience with that particular clerk. (Photo: Mike Windle/Getty Images for TWC)

Nas Helps Raise Money for Homeless DC Family - Stanley Young, an unemployed construction worker, and his eight children will receive more than $60,000 from generous strangers who contributed to online fundraising efforts led by rapper Nas. The hip hop artist was emotionally moved after seeing a news report about the single father and his family who were left homeless after a fire destroyed their home in Washington, D.C. (Photo: ABC News 7)

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Nas Helps Raise Money for Homeless DC Family - Stanley Young, an unemployed construction worker, and his eight children will receive more than $60,000 from generous strangers who contributed to online fundraising efforts led by rapper Nas. The hip hop artist was emotionally moved after seeing a news report about the single father and his family who were left homeless after a fire destroyed their home in Washington, D.C. (Photo: ABC News 7)

Tenneessee Judge Changes Baby's Name From Messiah to Martin - A Tennessee judge has ordered a change to a baby’s name after his parents were already in a child custody dispute over it. Seven-month-old Messiah DeShawn Martin’s name was changed to Martin DeShawn McCullough after the judge ruled that “Messiah” is a name that’s “only been earned by one person and that one person is Jesus Christ.” (Photo: AP Photo/WBIR-TV, Heidi Wigdahl)

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Tenneessee Judge Changes Baby's Name From Messiah to Martin - A Tennessee judge has ordered a change to a baby’s name after his parents were already in a child custody dispute over it. Seven-month-old Messiah DeShawn Martin’s name was changed to Martin DeShawn McCullough after the judge ruled that “Messiah” is a name that’s “only been earned by one person and that one person is Jesus Christ.” (Photo: AP Photo/WBIR-TV, Heidi Wigdahl)

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NAACP Commends Stop-and-Frisk Ruling - The NAACP has commended Judge Shira A. Scheindlin’s ruling that the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk tactic is unconstitutional. The New York federal judge has appointed an independent monitor to oversee changes to a practice that has violated the fourth and 15th amendments of New Yorkers. “Judge Scheindlin recognized what the NAACP has been saying for years: the racial profiling tactic of stop and frisk has no place in our enlightened society,” stated Benjamin Todd Jealous. (Photo: AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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NAACP Commends Stop-and-Frisk Ruling - The NAACP has commended Judge Shira A. Scheindlin’s ruling that the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk tactic is unconstitutional. The New York federal judge has appointed an independent monitor to oversee changes to a practice that has violated the fourth and 15th amendments of New Yorkers. “Judge Scheindlin recognized what the NAACP has been saying for years: the racial profiling tactic of stop and frisk has no place in our enlightened society,” stated Benjamin Todd Jealous. (Photo: AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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Study Says Black Women Have a Better Chance of Getting Loans - A new University of Iowa study suggests African-American women’s odds of receiving a loan is comparable to the odds of white men. The research showed that lenders view Black women as more hardworking and trustworthy because of the assumption that they “are on their own raising a family.” Black men ranked lowest in obtaining loans and white women followed. (Photo: REUTERS/Andrew Burton)

Teenage Boy Denied Heart Transplant - Georgia’s facility for pediatric transplants, the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, has reversed its decision on 15-year-old Anthony Stokes’ heart transplant. After initially ruling that he was ineligible due to his poor grades and previous run-ins with the law, the hospital will now place Stokes on the waiting list. (Photo: Courtesy WSBTV News)

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Teenage Boy Denied Heart Transplant - Georgia’s facility for pediatric transplants, the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, has reversed its decision on 15-year-old Anthony Stokes’ heart transplant. After initially ruling that he was ineligible due to his poor grades and previous run-ins with the law, the hospital will now place Stokes on the waiting list. (Photo: Courtesy WSBTV News)

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Jesse Jackson Jr. Says Where He Wants to Serve His Sentence - Former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. has said he hopes to be housed in an Alabama prison camp or a prison in North Carolina, where Jackson attended college. Jackson was sentenced to 30 months in prison for illegally spending $750,000 in campaign funds. (Photo: AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Completion Is Delayed - Work to finish part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial may be pushed back until after the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. The side of the memorial's "Stone of Hope" inscription had been left unfinished because of a lack of appropriate insurance to complete the inscription, Executive Architect Ed Jackson Jr. said. (Photo: AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

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Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Completion Is Delayed - Work to finish part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial may be pushed back until after the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. The side of the memorial's "Stone of Hope" inscription had been left unfinished because of a lack of appropriate insurance to complete the inscription, Executive Architect Ed Jackson Jr. said. (Photo: AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

North Carolina Passes Voter ID Law - After North Carolina’s Republican Gov. Pat McCrory said that he had signed a measure requiring voter ID laws and shortening early voting, the American Civil Liberties Union announced that it will file a lawsuit against key parts of the measure. Republican lawmakers who backed the measure said it was meant to prevent voter fraud. (Photo: Sara D. Davis/Getty Images)

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North Carolina Passes Voter ID Law - After North Carolina’s Republican Gov. Pat McCrory said that he had signed a measure requiring voter ID laws and shortening early voting, the American Civil Liberties Union announced that it will file a lawsuit against key parts of the measure. Republican lawmakers who backed the measure said it was meant to prevent voter fraud. (Photo: Sara D. Davis/Getty Images)