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Rare,
potentially deadly 'Enterovirus' hits thousands of kids across 10
states
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A child
hospitalized with the deadly cold virus. (Photo:
KMGH/CNN)
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ATLANTA, Ga. (ABC NEWS)
- A respiratory illness that has already sickened more than a thousand children
in 10 states is likely to become a nationwide problem, doctors say.
The disease hasn't been
officially identified but officials suspect it is a rare respiratory virus
called "human enterovirus 68."
According to the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the
virus is related to the rhinovirus, which causes the common cold.
According to Mark
Pallansch, director of the Division of Viral Diseases at the CDC, similar cases
to the ones in Colorado have been cropping up across the U.S.
At least 10 states --
Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Iowa, Colorado, Ohio, Oklahoma, North
Carolina, and Georgia -- have reported suspected outbreaks of human enterovirus
68 and requested CDC support.
"Viruses don't tend to
respect borders," ABC News Chief Health and Medical Editor Dr. Richard Besser
said. "It is only 10 states now, but it's going to be across the country. So if
your state doesn't have it now, watch for it, it's coming."
Doctors say they are not
even sure yet how this particular virus spreads, though the back-to-school
season is a normal time for illnesses to spread among children.
At Children's Hospital Colorado
in Denver, officials say that between Aug. 18 and Sept. 4, doctors saw more than
900 pediatric patients with symptoms of the respiratory virus in the emergency
room.
"The kids are coming in with
respiratory symptoms, their asthma is exacerbated," Nyquist said. "Kids with no
wheezing are having wheezing."
"Any kind of viral infection can
kick off wheezing and asthmas," she said.
To stay healthy, the CDC
recommends basic sanitary practices to avoid spreading the virus, including
washing hands, avoiding those who are sick, and covering the nose and mouth
during sneezes or coughs.
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Young Black Men
in
Black Star Mentor
Program
View and
Discuss "Spit'in Anger"
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Producer Kenneth Braswell
discusses Spit'in Anger with national talk show host Tavis
Smiley.
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Young Black men from Black Star
Mentor Program discuss Spit'in Anger after viewing
documentary.
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A young man writes to his
father.
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Click Here to View Trailer of
Spit'in Anger - Venom of A Fatherless Son
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Soar: How Boys Learn, Succeed and Develop
Character by David C. Banks
 David Banks is a respected educator, who has advised
Hillary Clinton and Cory Booker on scholastic issues, presents a plan for
teaching the country's most educationally endangered
group-boys.
David Banks knows a few things about at-risk
boys. In 2004, he petitioned New York City's mayor to allow an
all-boys public school to open in one of the most troubled
districts in the country, the South Bronx. He had a point to prove: When rituals
that boys are innately drawn to are combined with college prep-level instruction
and community mentorship, even the most challenging students can succeed. The
result? The Eagle Academy for Young Men-the first all-boys public high
school in New York City in more than thirty years-has flourished and has been
successfully replicated in other boroughs and other states.
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David C. Banks,founder Eagle Academy
Foundation.
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In Soar, Banks
shares the experiences of individual kids from the Eagle Academy as well as his
own personal story to help others get similar results. He shares the specific
approach he and his team use to drive students, from tapping into their natural
competitiveness and peer-sensitivity, to providing rituals that mimic their
instinctual need for hierarchy and fraternal camaraderie, to finding teachers
who know firsthand the obstacles these students
face.
Result-oriented and clear-eyed about the challenges
and the promises of educating boys at risk, Soar is a book that no
one who wants to see our young men flourish-from parents and educators to
teachers and employers-can afford to miss.
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Honoring Illinois State Senator
Kimberly A. Lightford and
Black Star Project Executive
Director Phillip Jackson
Sunday, September
14, 2014
Holiday Inn
Countryside
6201 Joliet
Road
Countryside,
Illinois
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2014 Silas Purnell College
Expo
Saturday, September 13,
2014
Tuley Park, 90th and King Drive
Chicago, Illinois
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. ADMISSION: FREE
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Come and meet
representatives from Historically Black Colleges and Universities nationwide and
colleges and universities throughout Illinois. For more information, call the Chesterfield Community
Council at (773)
651-3958 or visit: www.
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The
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers - Local 134 wants you to become an
electrician
Earn one of the best
jobs in America, become an electrician! Learn how to become an
electrician
on:
Thursday,
September 18, 2014
at The Black
Star Project
6:30 pm to
7:30 pm
3509 South
King Drive, Suite 2B
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The rate for union electricians is currently
$44.00 an hour for work and about $72.00 an hour for work and benefits.
Applicants must have a high school diploma and be able to pass a drug test.
Please call 773.285.9600 to RSVP for the opportunity to learn about this
apprenticeship. You must RSVP for yourself.
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Click Here to Learn How IBEW Helped
Save Simeon High School Electrical Training
Program
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High School Girl Taunted, Beaten At Bus Stop For Acting
'Too Much Like A White Person'
By Eric
Owens
September 8,
2014
A 16-year-old high school girl in
Rock Hill, S.C. told police that another high school girl taunted her on a
school bus and then beat her up after she got off the bus. The assailant
allegedly was angry at the victim because she was behaving "too much like a
white person."
Both the alleged attacker and the
victim are black, reports The State, a Columbia,
S.C. newspaper.
The incident occurred on Thursday
afternoon on a bus carrying students who attend Northwestern High School.
The police report also indicates
that the student who got beat up suffered numerous injuries including a serious
cut above her right eye.
An ambulance transported the girl
to a local hospital for treatment.
One witness, Shelly Hemphill, is
the mother of one of the victim's friends. The victim went to Hemphill's house
after she was allegedly assaulted. Hemphill was responsible for calling the
ambulance.
Hemphill told police that the
attacker tripped the victim and the punched her again and again while she was on
the ground, according to The Island Packet, a
Hilton Head newspaper.
She said the other student, who
has darker skin, had made fun of her and challenged her to a fight on prior
occasions, but she had refused.
The victim said she had again
refused to fight her alleged bully on Thursday but then got beat up, anyway.
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Positive Hip Hop by Jasiri
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Click Here to Hear and
See A Song for Trayvon (No Justice; No
Peace!)
Click Here to Hear and See -
Listen to What the Drums Say: A Tribute to Nelson
Mandela
Click Here to Hear and See -
Strange Fruit (Class of 2013)
The Black
Star Project Encourages You
and Our
Youth to Listen to and Support Positive, Conscious Hip Hop Artist!
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University of California Riverside
Grad Speaks Out On Fatherhood & Teen Parenting
What:
Million Father March + Baby Item/Diaper Drive Riverside County
When: Saturday,
September 13, 2014
Where:
Riverside Adult School. 6735 Magnolia Ave. Riverside, CA
92506
Who:
Terrance Stewart
Why:
Fatherhood Back-to-School Rally & Teenage Parents
Riverside, CA.-
Terrance Stewart was born to teenage parents; his father was 17 years old when
he was arrested for robbery. As a result, they spent little time together. His
mother was a teenage parent that did her best to raise him; she encouraged
Terrance to go to school. However, without a positive male role model, he often
became involved in activity that deemed him an "at-risk" youth.
In school, Stewart could not go on field trips or dances. In junior high
school he could not go to the basketball games; kicked out of public school by
ninth grade, he grew up on the streets. A young men succumbed to ideas of
grandeur and masculinity, jail became his rites of passage and Terrance soon
found himself within the confines of prison.
On September 13 this now
University of California Riverside alum, currently working on his Master's
Degree, who remained on the Dean's List 7 out of 8 quarters as an undergrad,
will be the keynote speaker during the 2014 Million Father March. The event will
be held from 9am - 1pm at Riverside Adult School. 6735 Magnolia Ave. Riverside,
CA 92506.
During his address he will share how he overcame great personal
challenges as a child to troubled teen parents. Stewart will also discuss
significant experiences he hopes teen, young and "would-be" fathers will take to
heart.
Currently, Stewart works with the homeless and under housed youth
residing in the Downtown Riverside area.
He also works with All of Us or
None (AOUON) and the Children of Prisoner program, where they fundraiser for
backpacks, school supplies, food, and trips to small amusement parks for
children with incarcerated or formerly incarcerated parents.
The Million
Father March will also feature a Dadcussion on teen and young fathers, with an
emphasis on mental health. Panelist include: Joe Nieto, Riverside USD; Dad's
University. Karina Sicarios, Riverside County Dept of Mental Health; Mental
Health. Dr. Richard Kotormori, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. And, Rosa
Elena Sahaun, Immigration Attorney.
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