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A young woman acting strange goes to a restaurant in a very wealthy area in California off of Pacific Coast Highway. After eating a steak and some wine and asking to sit with stranger, police is called because she cannot pay her bill which is just over $80. She is arrested and taken into custody.
Being that she is about an hour away from home, her mother calls to ask if she will be released that night or in the morning as she is trying to determine when she will go to get her. She is advised she will not be released until the morning. After midnight, the police releases this young woman with no car, no phone and no purse. They swear they offered to let her stay in the precinct but she refused. Now miles away from the station no one knows where she is. Is the police telling the truth, or are they covering something up?
Join us as we examine the case of Mitrice Richardson on this episode.
Mitrice Richardson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Mitrice_Richardson
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10 to Life with Annie Elise
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Hustle Sanely Podcast With Jess Massey
https://www.jessicamassey.com
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Richard Zitrin has been at the forefront for representing those who cannot fight the system. Most of these people are minorities usually poor and face a justice system that is not fair. Trial Lawyer: A Life Representing People Against Power is a book about just that. He tells you about one of the most brutal cases he had to defend with the San Quentin 6, all the way down to a case against Chrysler.
This book has truly changed my life. Knowing that in this world of unfairness, there are people out there trying their best to make things as equal as possible.
Join us as we welcome Professor/Attorney Richard Zitrin on this Episode of A Day With Crime.
You can find out more about Richard Zitrin at:
www.richardzitrin.com
Get yourself a copy of Trial Lawyer: A Life Representing People Against Power
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09XJMD425/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
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Melissa Lucio was accused of abusing and murdering her young daughter Mariah. Although other evidence has come up that she may be innocent, she was convicted and sentenced to death row. Was she executed as planned? Join us as we examine The State Vs. Melissa Rubio on this episode of A Day With Crime.
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Is it strange when a young boy falls over a banister to his death and it is a freak accident? Is it even more strange that a couple days later a young woman is found bound and hanging from her balcony? This is what happened in the case of Rebecca Zahou. It was ruled a suicide but was it? Join us as we examine the case of the Mysterious death of Rebecca Zahou on this episode.
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Mad man in the woods by Jamie Gehring. This is a must read!!
https://www.jamiegehring.com
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You meet yourself? A nice girl on Facebook. You begin to date. You take her home and you introduce her to your parents. While you spend time with her. What you don't know. Is in the back of her mind, she is infatuated with serial killers. Something is brewing deep In her mind. And she wants to kill.
Does she follow through with the urge? Join us. As we examine the case of Taylor Schabusiness on this episode. Of a day with crime
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Christina Randall
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZTyzoGspuRurWtbWLEGqLQ
10 to Life with Annie Elise
https://www.youtube.com/c/10toLIFE
Grizzley True Crime
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A woman was found at the bottom of a well. According to witnesses. The last person to see her alive was Levi weeks. Levi weeks was accused of this murder. Was he acquitted? Did he get convicted? Join us as we examine the first murder trial in American history that has a transcript. On this episode. Of a day with crime.
Levi Weeks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Weeks
Transcript
https://history.nycourts.gov/case/people-v-weeks/
Manhattan Well Murder
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/manhattan-well-murder
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Murder Between Friends
https://art19.com/shows/murder-between-friends
Down a rabbit hole
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/down-a-rabbit-hole/id1608115996
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In 1996. A young girl went to ride bikes with her brother. When her brother decided to go home with all her, because she wanted to stay a little longer. She was abducted. Never to be seen again. Amber Hagerman became the namesake for what we now know as the Amber alert system. Was she ever found. Whatever happened to the person that kidnapped her.
Was she murdered? Join us as we examine. The disappearance of Amber Hagerman. On this episode. of a day with crime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_alert
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Your college is kid at a college hangout. Decide it's time to go home. You call an Uber. Would you ever think, but not verifying or looking at your app? That maybe. This may not be the driver. You think that it is.
This is exactly what happened to the young lady, the subject of this episode. This is a cautionary tale. That we tell in hopes that this never happens to you. Or anyone else?
So join us as we examine the murder of, Samantha Josephson. On this episode of a day with crime -
Actress, Comedian, and TV host Whoopi Goldberg is the first Black person to win the coveted EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar & Tony) Award.
Within Goldberg’s amazing career she has received two Academy Award nominations, for her contributions in The Color Purple and Ghost, winning for Ghost. Goldberg was also recognized as the first African American to have received Academy Award nominations for both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress.
Following the academy award, Goldberg won two Golden Globe for Best Actress (1986) for her contribution in The Color Purple, and Best Supporting Actress in 1991 for Ghost (Ghost also won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role).
Goldberg starring in “Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway” won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Recording in 1985. Not only did Whoppi Goldberg win the Grammy but she became only the second solo woman performer at the time to receive the award and the first African-American woman. Only three women performers have ever received the Best Comedy Recording award.
In 1990, Goldberg received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as “Oda Mae Brown” in the hit movie Ghost. In 2002 Whoopi Goldberg won the Tony Award for her contribution as a producer for Thoroughly Modern Millie. Goldberg outdid herself where she was rewarded with eight Daytime Emmy nominations and went home with two. The acting veteran received nine a total of Primetime Emmy nominations. Concluding Goldberg’s long list of awards was her Daytime Emmy Award in 2009, for Outstanding Talk Show Host for her role on The View.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg
ALL SIXTEEN E.G.O.T WINNERS
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Hattie McDaniel was able to carve out a place for herself in Hollywood despite rampant racism and a consignment to bit parts. She paved the way for many African American women, but not without her fair share of obstacles.
Her performance as “Mammy” in Gone With the Wind (1939) won her Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars that year. However, the national movie premiere was in Atlanta. Because of Georgia’s Jim Crow Laws, she was prohibited from attending the event.
Hattie went on to star in over 300 films, was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 2006, and was the first Oscar winner to appear on a postage stamp. Despite her ultimate success, her choices (insofar as she had any) in roles were often criticized.
The NAACP said Hollywood’s roles for African Americans were narrowed to servants or characters whose main purpose was being comically slow and dim-witted. Hattie was criticized for settling for lesser roles than her white colleagues. Despite this, Hattie went on to have a stellar career.
This was Hattie McDaniel;s acceptance speech
“Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, fellow members of the motion picture industry and honored guests, this is one of the happiest moments of my life and I want to thank each one of who had a part in selecting me for one of their awards; for your kindness that has made me feel very, very humble. And I shall always hold it as a beacon for anything that I may be able to do in the future. I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry. My heart is too full to tell you just how I feel and may I say thank you and God bless you.” -
Despite Phyllis Wheatley’s fame, we know surprisingly little about her early life. She was taken from her home in Africa when she was seven or eight, and sold to the Wheatley family in Boston.
The family taught her to read and write, and encouraged her to write poetry as soon as they witnessed her talent for it. In 1773, Phyllis published her first poem, making her the first African American to be published. She was only 12 at the time.
Her work was praised by high-ranking members of society, including, perhaps most notably, George Washington. Her writing made her famous throughout the colonies. Not long after her poems were first published, the family that owned Wheatley emancipated her.
Unfortunately, her life took a turn from there, especially after the deaths of many of the Wheatleys who had helped support her. She was stricken with poverty. The fame she earned from her writing did little to sustain her husband and children. She fell ill and died at the age of 31.
PHYLLIS WHEATLEY
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Will Smith wins first ever Rap Grammy
One day I went around at work and asked a bunch of 18 to 21 year olds if they knew what Will Smith’s first profession was. Everyone of them said Actor. When I said no I was argued down even when I showed them his discography.
Will Smith was and still is a Rapper. Over the years he has done more acting, but he still can work a mic.
In 1988 WIll Smith and Jazzy Jeff who were known as DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, won the first ever Rap Grammy. Back then the rap portion of the show was not televised, so it was not shown. They won for the song Parents Just don’t understand.
WILL SMITH
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Mildred and Richard Loving left their home state of Virginia to get married. They were warned by Virginia state officials that getting married would be a violation of state law, as Richard was white and Mildred was not. When they returned home, Mildred was promptly arrested. When she was finally released, the couple was referred to the American Civil Liberties Union by Robert Kennedy. The ACLU, seeing an opportunity to end anti-miscegenation laws, jumped at the chance.
After making their way through local and state courts, Loving v Virginia was put before the Supreme Court, and the bans on interracial marriage were deemed unconstitutional. It was a landmark victory for couples of different races, and the Lovings are often heralded as being the catalysts for making it happen. The last law formally prohibiting interracial marriage was overturned in Alabama in 2000. The Lovings were featured in a 2016 biopic, Loving , starring Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton. -
Jack Johnson became the first African American man to hold the World Heavyweight Champion boxing title in 1908. He held onto the belt until 1915.
JACK JOHNSON
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Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till came to Bryants Grocery store to buy candy in August 1955. White shopkeeper Carolyn Bryant accused the black youth of flirting with her, and shortly thereafter, Till was abducted by Bryant’s husband and his half brother. Till’s tortured body was later found in the Tallahatchie River. The two men were tried and acquitted but later sold their murder confession to Look magazine. Till’s death received international attention and is widely credited with sparking the American Civil Rights Movement.”
In 2017 Carolyn Bryant confessed that she lied about what happened that day. Some 60 years after Emmett’s death.
EMMETT TILL
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The 6888th Battalion was an all black female unit of military that delivered mail to the World War II troops across England
In February 1945, the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was established to deliver mail to American troops, government personnel, and volunteers abroad in England. At the time, many packages and letters were poorly addressed or sent to individuals with common names and little further direction. Members of the service weren’t getting their mail, which had an outsized impact on morale.
Officials estimated that, with the disarray of the postal warehouse, it would take around six months for the harrowing backlog to be sorted and delivered.
African-American women were granted the opportunity to travel to serve overseas in late 1944, and the 6888th Battalion was full of eager, well-trained recruits. Led by Major Charity Edna Adams, the women of the “Six Triple Eight” spent time in Oglethorpe, Georgia preparing for service—jumping over trenches, identifying enemy crafts, and marching. Mail delivery in a war zone did not come not without danger, and the women of the Battalion faced several close calls, injuries, and even some instances of death.
Though the reaction to this battalion was mixed, the Six Triple Eight was outstandingly efficient. The battalion worked in long shifts seven days a week and created a brand new tracking system for the mail they received. Rather than accomplishing the sorting of mail in the projected six months, the recruits blew through the task in three.
The 6888th Batallian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6888th_Central_Postal_Directory_Battalion
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A virtual one-man band, Prince sculpted and created the Minneapolis Sound through his keyboards, screeching, almost pleading vocals and erotic live shows.
Named after his father's jazz band, the Prince Rogers Band, Prince Rogers Nelson had music in his blood from birth. Prince is said to be a perfectionist who is highly protective of his music. He writes, composes and produces the majority of his music himself and plays most of the instruments on his albums.
Prince holds the record for longest pop-album, Emancipation (1996), which is exactly 3 hours long. He changed his name to the unpronounceable glyph O(+> from 1993 to 2000.
PRINCE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician)
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Fannie Lou Hamer began civil rights activism in 1962, continuing until her health declined nine years later. She was known for her use of spiritual hymnals and quotes and her resilience in leading the civil rights movement for black women in Mississippi.
She was extorted, threatened, harassed, shot at, and assaulted by racists, including police, while trying to register for and exercise her right to vote. She later helped and encouraged thousands of African-Americans in Mississippi to become registered voters and helped hundreds of disenfranchised people in her area through her work in programs like the Freedom Farm Cooperative.
She unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate in 1964 and the Mississippi State Senate in 1971. In 1970 she led legal action against the government of Sunflower County, Mississippi for continued illegal segregation.
Hamer died on March 14, 1977, aged 59, in Mound Bayou, Mississippi. Her memorial service was widely attended and her eulogy was delivered by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young. She was posthumously inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1993.
FANNIE LOU HAMER
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Lou_Hamer
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Nine months before Rosa Parks, There was a Young Woman names Claudette Colvin
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to relinquish her seat on a public bus. Parks' protest sparked the Montgomery bus protests and galvanized the Civil Rights Movement. Yet she was not the first African American individual in Montgomery to stand up against injustice in such a manner.
On March 2, 1955, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin was riding home on a city bus after a long day at school. A white passenger boarded, and the bus driver ordered Claudette to give up her seat. Claudette refused. As she later told Newsweek "I felt like Sojourner Truth was pushing down on one shoulder and Harriet Tubman was pushing down on the other. I was glued to my seat.”
Colvin was arrested for her civil disobedience and briefly put in jail. The NAACP and other civil rights groups considered rallying around Colvin's case in their campaign against Alabama's segregation laws before focusing efforts on Rosa Parks' protest nine months later. Nevertheless, Colvin was one of four plaintiffs in the landmark Browder v. Gayle case of 1956, which ruled that the segregation laws of Montgomery and Alabama state were unconstitutional.
Claudette Colvin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudette_Colvin
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In 1863, Tubman led a regiment in the Raid on Combahee Ferry. Tubman planned and carried out the attack, which freed some 750 enslaved people and laid waste to the Confederates’ encampment. A few weeks later, the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, an all-Black volunteer regiment, executed a similar raid up the river in Darien, Georgia.
Harriet Tubman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman
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