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Students Weather Rain to Raise $32K to Help Others in U.S., Haiti
WASHINGTON (Mach 7) -- Despite the downpour, scores of Howard University students, many of them soaked from the rain, took to the streets for 12 hours Sunday to raise money so they can help people in Haiti and in five U.S. cities during their spring break.
The WHUR 96.3 Helping Hands radiothon, an annual fundraising event to help send hundreds of students across the country to help residents in troubled neighborhoods across the globe, raised $32,000. The effort is ...more |
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A Fateful Summer Keeps One ASB Participant Coming Back
CHICAGO
-- Melech Thomas
of Bowie, Md.,
can still recall
the pain he felt
as he watched
firemen wash the
blood of 9-year-old
Chastity Turner
off the sidewalk
in front of her
home in South
Chicago.
It
was the summer of
2009, and Thomas,
now a senior speech
and applied communications
major at Howard
University, was
interning at Faith
Community of Saint
Sabina, where Father
Michael Pfleger
has made battling
gun violence a crusade.
This day, Thomas
got to see it all
up close.
Chastity had been
gunned down in the
7400 block of South
Stewart Avenue as
she and her father
were washing the
family’s dog.
Her father and two
of his friends ..more |
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Personal Tragedy Moved Site Coordinator to Fight Gun Violence
CHICAGO - Remoshay Nelson of Douglasville, Ga., could be going home for spring break, but instead, she will be in Chicago, all because of a personal tragedy that happened when she was only 7 years old.
That was the year her 12-year-old cousin was randomly shot and killed by a kid just two years older as part of his initiation into a street gang....more |
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The Bus Ride to ASB Chicago
CHICAGO -- It wasn’t long after the buses arrived in front of the building that Chicago co-site coordinator Remoshay Nelson came scurrying out of Cramton Auditorium. She was eager to get her charges on board for our departure from Howard to the Windy City. Nelson looks 18, is actually 21 and has no natural offspring of her own. But for the next nine days, she’ll be saddled with 45 “children” that she must guard and guide. We’ll call her Mama. |
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