Nationalist, Pan-Africanism movement leader and Negro World newspaper founder Marcus Mosiah Garvey and Washington AFRO-AMERICAN publisher emeritus Francis L. Murphy II, were enshrined into the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) Gallery of Distinguished Publishers during Black Press Week in Washington, D.C.
“Houston Police Department Officer Juventino Castro shot and killed Jordan Baker without any lawful justification.” This is the first sentence that appears in a federal lawsuit filed in The United States District Court Southern District Of Texas against Houston Police Department (HPD) Officer Juventino Castro, the City of Houston, and RPI Management Company, LLC, who are the defendants in a case, by Janet Baker, the mother of Jordan Baker, an unarmed 26-year old Black man who was fatally shot by Officer Castro in January 2014. The Houston Forward Times (HFT) has been covering the case of Jordan Baker since the