Albert Freeman Jr. Dead: 'Malcolm X' Actor Dies At 78
Albert Freeman Jr., left, in a still from "Malcolm X."
LOS ANGELES — Albert Freeman Jr., the veteran actor who played Elijah Muhammad in Spike Lee's epic film, "Malcolm X," has died. He was 78.
Howard University in Washington, D.C., confirmed his death Friday night but details weren't immediately available. Freeman taught acting there for years and served as chairman and artistic director of its theater arts department.
"He was a brilliant professor, a renowned actor and a master director who made his mark in the classroom as well as on stage, screen and television. ... He has mentored and taught scores of outstanding actors. He was a resounding voice of Howard and will be missed," university spokeswoman Kerry-Ann Hamilton said in a statement.
Freeman earned an NAACP Image Award for playing Malcolm X's mentor in Lee's 1992 biography.
He also received an Emmy nomination for his role as Malcolm X in the 1979 miniseries "Roots: The Next Generations." He won a best-actor Daytime Emmy that year for his work as Capt. Ed Hall on the soap opera "One Life to Live." (See video below)
Once again, there is another great loss of a person whom millions enjoyed watching on Television, Stage, and Film. May Mr. Freeman's family and friends find spiritual peace during this difficult time.
Iran quake toll hits 250; scores left homeless
Search operations have ceased, and hundreds of tents have been set up to house victims.
An Iranian couple stand amid the rubble of their home in the village of Baje-Baj, near the town of Varzaqan. (Atta Kenare / AFP/GettyImages / August 12, 2012)
TEHRAN, Iran—
Twin earthquakes in Iran
have killed at least 250 people and injured over 2,000, Iranian state
television said on Sunday, after thousands spent the night outdoors
after their villages were leveled and homes damaged in the country's
northwest. Images broadcast on the main news channel showed dozens of families sleeping on blankets laid out on the ground in parks. Some were crying, others shivering from chilly weather in the mountainous region hit by the quake, near neighboring Azerbaijan.
Racial Profiling Rife at Airport, U.S. Officers Say
BOSTON — More than 30 federal officers in an airport program intended to spot telltale mannerisms of potential terrorists say the operation has become a magnet for racial profiling, targeting not only Middle Easterners but also blacks, Hispanics and other minorities.
Manuel Balce Ceneta/Associated Press
Reagan National Airport in Washington is one of more
than 150 airports that are already using behavior detection officers.
In interviews and internal complaints, officers from the Transportation Security Administration’s
“behavior detection” program at Logan International Airport in Boston
asserted that passengers who fit certain profiles — Hispanics traveling
to Miami, for instance, or blacks wearing baseball caps backward — are
much more likely to be stopped, searched and questioned for “suspicious”
behavior.
“They just pull aside anyone who they don’t like the way they look — if
they are black and have expensive clothes or jewelry, or if they are
Hispanic,” said one white officer, who along with four others spoke with
The New York Times on the condition of anonymity.
Plane crashes in Illinois moments after 12 skydivers jump; pilot killed
A small airplane crashed into a Taylorville, Ill., neighborhood late Saturday morning moments after 12 skydivers safely jumped from the craft. The pilot died in the crash.2 Syrian journalists killed in Damascus
AMMAN, Jordan
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Two Syrian journalists were killed in the capital Damascus, state media
and an Arab satellite television station reported on Sunday.
Activists reported more clashes in some Damascus suburbs, the battleground city of Aleppo in the north, central Homs province, and the restive southern town of Daraa. The U.K.-based activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had no immediate reports of casualties.
Hudson River swimmer dies during Ironman race
FORT LEE, N.J. (AP) — An athlete competing in the
Ironman U.S. Championship in New York City and New Jersey died Saturday
after having a medical problem during the swimming portion of the
grueling triathlon, race officials said.
The swimmer was pulled out of the water and taken to a hospital in nearby Englewood Cliffs, N.J., but did not survive. The organizers said the cause of death is unknown. An autopsy is planned.
New York City police said the contestant was a 43-year-old man. His name has not yet been released.
Gabby Douglas Honored With Mural In Hometown!
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Gabby Douglas is really big in her hometown. Really big and painted on a wall.
The gold-medal-winning gymnast has a giant mural painted in her honor in Virginia Beach. And she loves it.
“WOW!!! This is amazing!! (hashtag)so honored,” Douglas tweeted Friday from the Olympics in London, where the 16-year-old won two gold medals at the Summer Games.
The mural shows Douglas holding a gold medal with an American flag backdrop. It says “Way to go Gabby.”
‘Pimping’ Fireman Cuffed For Allegedly Running Prostitution Ring From His Apartment
Jamar Simmons (pictured), a Baltimore City fireman, has been accused of running a prostitution ring from his renovated apartment in the southwest part of the city, The Baltimore Sun reports.
His alleged accomplice, 33-year-old Franklin Coit, has also been accused of participating in the alleged ring.
Simmons has been charged with seven offenses, most of which are related to running a prostitution business. Coit has been charged with similar counts.
Gun violence targeted by doctors as a social disease
MILWAUKEE — Is a gun like a virus, a car, tobacco or alcohol? Yes, say public health experts, who in the wake of recent mass shootings are calling for a fresh look at gun violence as a social disease.What we need, they say, is a public health approach to the problem, like the highway safety measures, product changes and driving laws that slashed deaths from car crashes decades ago, even as the number of vehicles on the road rose.
One example: Guardrails are now curved to the ground instead of having sharp metal ends that stick out and pose a hazard in a crash.
“People used to spear themselves and we blamed the drivers for that,” said Dr. Garen Wintemute, an emergency medicine professor who directs the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California at Davis.
NYPD officers fatally shoot man waving butcher's knife after terrifying chase through Times Square
Darrius Kennedy was hit by gunfire near 37th and Seventh Avenue around 3p.m., police said
Police shot dead a knife-wielding suspect on 7th Avenue by W. 37th street.
A deranged knife-wielding man was gunned down by police near Times Square Saturday after a bizarre backward chase in broad daylight that sent terrified tourists scrambling for safety.The dreadlocked madman was fatally shot at 3 p.m. on a Seventh Ave. sidewalk after ignoring orders to drop his 11-inch butcher knife — and then menacingly lunged at cops, police said.
The 51-year-old suspect, identified as Darrius Kennedy, was walking backward for seven blocks with cops in pursuit, appeared impervious to police pepper spray and refused to surrender his blade, witnesses said.
“He looked like he was crazy,” said Jalloh Osman, 26, who joined a crowd of onlookers watching the strange showdown at the corner of W. 37th St. “They sprayed him, and he kept going backwards.
“They kept telling him, ‘Put it down! Put it down!’ But he refused.”
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