In 1931, in Scottsboro, Alabama, nine Black teenagers were pulled off a freight train. Two white women accused them of rape. No evidence. All-white jury. Eight sentenced to death. One, 13-year-old Roy Wright, got life because he was a child.
The case became international news. But inside Kilby Prison, the boys were alone. Except for one woman: Jane Newton, 57, a white seamstress from Birmingham. She read about it in the paper and took a bus.
She wasn’t a lawyer. She wasn’t an activist. She just sat in the visitors’ room every Tuesday. She brought fried chicken, cornbread, and pencils. She taught them to write their names. Most were illiterate.
The guards called her “Nigger Lover.” She said: “I’m a Christian. You boys write your mothers.” She mailed the letters herself. When Olen Montgomery went blind from prison beatings, she read to him. When Andy Wright turned 18 in a cell, she baked him a cake and sang through the glass.
The Supreme Court overturned the convictions twice. It took 6 years, 4 trials. Four boys were finally freed. Four served decades. One, Haywood Patterson, escaped in 1948 and died in a bar fight.
Jane died in 1946. She left no family. The boys chipped in for her tombstone. It says: “She came when no one else did.”
In 2013, Alabama posthumously pardoned the Scottsboro Boys. Olen Montgomery, 95, the last survivor, was asked if he was angry. He said: “No. Miss Jane taught me to write my name. That’s how I signed the pardon. That’s enough.
Mary Kay Letourneau was 34 years old when she sexually abused her 12-year-old student, Vili Fualaau.
She became pregnant, pleaded guilty to child rape, and was sent to jail. After her release, a court ordered her to stay away from him.
She ignored it.
Police later found Letourneau with Fualaau in a car, and she was sent back to prison. While behind bars, she gave birth to their second daughter.
Letourneau was released in 2004 after serving more than seven years. Less than a year later, she married Fualaau.
They stayed married for more than a decade before divorcing in 2019. She died of cancer one year later.
Lakurawa terrorists murdered at least 15 people in Sokoto. Yet, Arewa youths, who should be protesting angrily against these evil in their region, are busy comparing who drives the most expensive car between two irrelevant people. Many of you are filled with disgust.
Alhaji Aminu Dantata might not be a name known to many outside of Africa, but he was a shining star and legendary icon to the people of Nigeria.
I was honored to know him and his family during my childhood, and met him recently in my last visit to Nigeria. As one of the most successful entrepreneurs and business tycoons in Africa, Allah blessed him with immense wealth, and fame and power; yet everyone knew him to be a humble and honest man, and a philanthropist of the highest level: ever-ready to help others less fortunate, never greedy for more. He turned down political office, he never was accused of any scandal, he was ever-beloved to his people, and indeed entire country...
Such men are very rare indeed!
In my visit to him a few months ago, I asked him for advice. He said, "Honesty! Always, be truthful and sincere, and leave the rest to Allah." At the end of our conversation, he remarked, "I am ready to leave this world, and looking forward to return to my Creator."
He returned to his Lord at the ripe age of 93, and was buried today in the blessed cemetery of Baqi al-Gharqad, in Madinah.
May Allah forgive his sins and exalt his ranks and allow his progeny after him to continue his legacy!!
BREAKING:
Israel has dropped bombs on Palestinians waiting for water in Zaitoun neighborhood, Gaza.
Over 17 killed, many injured.
The bodies are severely mutilated.
Read that again: Desperate civilians, starving and thirsty, standing in line for water.
This is a massacre.
This is not Hiroshima, this is Gaza.
Gaza is nearly 3 times smaller than Hiroshima, and Israel has dropped the equivalent of 6 ATOMIC BOMBS on Gaza.
Don't stop talking about Gaza as if your life depends on it, because their lives depend on it!
@accessbank_help Just this morning, I transferred the sum of 150k to my Zenith bank account, but up until now, it hasn't dropped into the account. Kindly look into this its a matter of urgency.
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