Bring That Week Back: Trayvon's Father Named Honorary Football Captain at FAMU
Plus, Oprah apologizes for media frenzy on Swiss experience.
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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)
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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)
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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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