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Eddie Long’s New Birth Christian Academy Closes

The ReadyWriter

Bishop Eddie Long’s New Birth Christian Academy is closing its doors after 18 years in operation. I guess this all apart of “God’s operation and the Eddie Long empire shut down”.

The private school’s 200 students learned about the school closing in a letter sent home to their parents and signed by Carlton Donald, the board’s vice-chair.

The school’s tuition ranged from $5,253 for New Birth members to $6,198 for non-members, according to the Atlanta Journal.

The school’s closing is just another step toward the dismantling of Eddie Long’s church empire in Atlanta. The church has laid off staff after losing hundreds of members since Long settled a sexual coercion case filed against him by four former New Birth members who were heterosexual and gay.

Additionally, Bernice King, daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, stepped down as a church elder in May. And 10 former parishioners filed a $1 million lawsuit against Long and the church alleging they lost their life savings in an investment scam.

Long, who temporally stepped down as the church’s senior pastor this month, reportedly used the school as a hunting ground for young males to satisfy his sexual appetite. In court documents, Long was accused of coercing the young men with Bible passages and plying at least two of the boys with cash, trips, gifts and cars to loosen their sexual inhibitions.

Earlier this month, the embattled preacher’s long-suffering wife, Vanessa, announced she was filing for divorce.

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Crazed Brooklyn Man Burned Woman Alive Over Money

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The man suspected of burning a Brooklyn woman alive in an elevator said he committed the heinous attack because the woman owed him $2,000.

Jerome Isaac, 47, of 315 Lincoln Place in Brooklyn turned himself into police Saturday night. He was reeking of gasoline and made statements implicating himself in the horrific murder of his former lover, Dorothy Gillespie, 73, of 203 Underhill Ave in Brooklyn.

Police say Isaac stalked Gillespie and waited for her outside an elevator as she returned home from grocery shopping. Isaac, who was dressed as an exterminator, used a gasoline filled insecticide canister to spray Gillespie before setting her on fire with a barbecue lighter.

“He opens the door and sprayed her methodically over her head, over her body,” NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said. “She’s cowering, trying to protect her face with her hands.”

A resident of the Prospect Heights building said he heard sounds of an intense struggle. “She was screaming at the top of her lungs,” said the resident.

“It sounded like a person being attacked, rather than someone stuck in an elevator,” said the neighbor. “It sounded like she was in trouble.”

Residents of the building where Gillespie lived say the older woman moved Isaac into her 5th floor apartment earlier this year. The former postal worker hired Isaac to do odd jobs but fired him after she caught him stealing, her nephew told the NY Post.

Isaac told cops he had left a note on Gillespie’s door with a list of chores he was demanding payment for. But Gillespie refused to pay him after she caught him stealing and kicked him out.

Police today charged Isaac with first-degree murder and arson in Gillespie’s death. He was also charged with arson for setting fire to his own apartment in a nearby building after killing Gillespie.

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Occupy ‘WALL STREET’ Is A Revolution!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Occupy Wall Street protestors clogged streets and tied up traffic around the U.S. today to mark two months since the movement’s birth and signaled they aren’t ready to quit, despite the breakups by police of many of their encampments throughout these different cities.

More than 200 people were arrested in New York as protestors walked in the streets and chanted “banks were bailed out, while the American people were sold out!” and “All day, all week, shut down Wall Street”.

More than 1,000 demonstrators gathered near the New York Stock Exchange and sat down in several intersections. Helmeted police broke up some of the gatherings, but operations at the stock market were not disrupted.

Later, the crowd split up for rallies elsewhere in the city. Some also planned to head into the subways, then march over the Brooklyn Bridge. Protests took place in Boston, Los Angeles, Washington, Kansas City, MO, Buffalo, NY, Portland, Oregon and Las Vegas, Nevada.

Occupy Wall Street is a huge movement people….I sense a revolution marching in and after any revolution comes change!!!

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“GUILTY! Judge Remands Murray to Jail Without Bond”

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Michael Jackson’s former physician, Conrad Murray, 58, has been found guilty of one count of manslaughter. The jury reached the verdict after 10 hours of deliberations which began on Friday, Nov. 4.

Murray faces a sentence of up to 4 years in prison. He could receive probation if Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor decides that Murray is a defendant with no prior criminal record, a circumstance that might mitigate in favor of probation.

Jackson died of cardiac and respiratory arrest following an acute Propofol (anesthesia) overdose on June 25, 2009 in his rented Holmby Hills, CA mansion.

UPDATE II:
La Toya Jackson screamed out in the quiet courtroom when the verdict was read. Court officers asked her to be silent.

UPDATE I:
Conrad Murray showed no emotion as the judge remanded him to jail immediately without bond.

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“Are You Tuning Into PoliticsNation?” It’s Informative & Enlightening…

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The Rev. Al Sharpton is a hit as host of MSNBC’s PoliticsNation? And I’m hooked people and must be tuned in daily for my 6:00 PM hourly dose (6-7 PM), as the Rev. diss the dirt on the republican’s tactics against President Barack Obama and their goal to destroy a struggling economy.

What’s scary is, Rev. Al Sharpton is revealing truths when he report how the republicans have big money plans to oust Barack Obama in the 2012 election., even rigging certain states with new voting laws where Obama won big in 2008.

That’s right y’all, Jim Crow will be alive and well in 2012.

This new voter ID law being initiated in 14 states, could cause five million Americans to lose their right to vote.

TheGrio–A new study from the New York University Law School’s Brennan Center shows  that 5 million people could lose the their right to vote as a result of new voter suppression laws.

New voter ID laws in 14 states could make it significantly harder for more than five million eligible voters to cast ballots in 2012, according to the first comprehensive study of the laws’ impact, produced by the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law.

Widespread voting cutbacks could have a significant electoral impact in next year’s election with minorities, poor and young voters most likely to be affected, the study found.

One of the new voting law requirements is to have a photo ID. For the elderly who seek to have a photo ID they’re being told to provide their marriage license and birth certificates when most of these elderly people were born in the early 20’s, 30’s and 40’s, when obtaining a birth certificate and/or marriage license at this stage of the game; might be a bit challenging to request in time for the election. 

The motivating factor here is to discourage people from voting. But these are just a few issues being addressed on PoliticsNation daily, tune in and check out Al Sharpton as you’ve never seen him before.

If you watch the show you’ll stay informed!!!!!!!!!!