1977 SPECIAL REPORT: SCHOOL LUNCH Hezakya Newz & Films 2026-09-21 | 1977 SPECIAL REPORT: SCHOOL LUNCH
1954 SPECIAL REPORT: PHILADELPHIA HOUSING DISCRIMINATION Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-27 | The city began a population decline in the 1950s as mostly white and middle-class families left for the suburbs. Many of Philadelphia's houses were in poor condition and lacked proper facilities, and gang and mafia warfare plagued the city.#BLACKHISTORY #philadelphia
1972 SPECIAL REPORT: CHICAGO P.D. Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-27 | The Chicago Police Department is the primary law enforcement agency of the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States, under the jurisdiction of the Chicago City Council. It is the second-largest municipal police department in the United States, behind the New York City Police Department.#chicago
1957 THROWBACK: LITTLE ROCK DESEGREGATION Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-27 | On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education that segregated schools are "inherently unequal." In September 1957, as a result of that ruling, nine African-American students enrolled at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.#blackhistory
1980 SPECIAL REPORT: ATLANTAS STREET KIDS Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-27 | Street children are poor or homeless children who live on the streets of a city, town, or village. Homeless youth are often called street kids, or urchins; the definition of street children is contested, but many practitioners and policymakers use UNICEF's concept of boys and girls, aged under 18 years, for whom "the street" (including unoccupied dwellings and wasteland) has become home and/or their source of livelihood, and who are inadequately protected or supervised. Street girls are sometimes called gamines, a term that is also used for Colombian street children of either sex.Some street children, notably in more developed nations, are part of a subcategory called thrown-away children, consisting of children who have been forced to leave home. Thrown-away children are more likely to come from single-parent homes. Street children are often subject to abuse, neglect, exploitation, or, in extreme cases, murder by "clean-up squads" that have been hired by local businesses or police.#atlanta
1977 SPECIAL REPORT: MEMPHIS COP SPEAKS OUT ON BEING REMOVED FROM MLK SECURITY DETAIL Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-26 | Edward E. Redditt, who had taken up a post in the firehouse on the day of the murder, was ordered to go home at 4 p.m. because of a reported attempt on the life of his family. The order was attributed to Memphis Police and Fire Department Frank C. Holloman, who had served in the FBI for 25 years.The task force said Redditt may have been removed becuase Philip R. Manuel, an investigator for the Senate Government Operations Committee, apparently notified Memphis police that his staff had received a tip from an informer about a plot to kill a "Negro lieutenant" in Memphis.Manuel, the task force said, has no "present recollection" of the incident. However, the report added, "He said the events sounded familiar and he believed the Memphis police records were correct."The report also noted that another black police officer, Willie B. Richmond who also had been assigned to surveillance of King, remained in the firehouse after Redditt's departure and was among those who rushed to the motel after the shot was fired.The task force said it could not establish clearly the reasons why the two black firemen, Norvell E. Wallace and Floyd E. Newsum, were transferred from the firehouse. It did note, though, that both were strong supporters of the strike by Memphis sanitation workers, most of whom were black, that had drawn King there as a gesture of solidarity."Our investigation has not disclosed any evidence that the detail of Wallace and Newsum was in any way connected with the assassination," the report said. It speculated that they might have been transferred because their sympathy for the strikers would have made hostile to what many blacks saw as police efforts to syp on King.Perhaps the biggest question left unanswered by the report is where Ray got the substantial sums of money that he spent during the year between his escape from a Missouri prison and King's killing. The task force said, "The sources for Ray's funds still remain a mystery today."In regard to the Hoover-inspired FBI harassment of King, the task force found that there might have been legitimate reasons for investigating him initially, because the FBI had established that one of his advisers at one time had had Communist ties. #MLK #blackhistory
1991 SPECIAL REPORT: CHICAGO GANG SUMMIT Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-25 | Chicago is considered the most gang-occupied city in the United States, with 150,000 gang-affiliated denizens, representing more than 100 gangs.#chicago
1975 SPECIAL REPORT: CLEVELAND CRIME(PART II) Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-24 | Crime has been recorded in the United States since its founding and has fluctuated significantly over time, with a sharp rise after 1900 and reaching a broad bulging peak between the 1970s and early 1990s
1977 SPECIAL REPORT: MURDER VICTIMS..THEIR FAMILIES Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-24 | The shock and trauma of the homicide can affect their personal relationships, work, social life, physical and emotional well-being, values, and beliefs about the world. In many families, a desire to protect children or young relatives from the trauma can leave them feeling scared and confused.
1973 SPECIAL REPORT: THE NINE-YEAR OLD IN PRISON Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-24 | A voluntary confession to murder by a retardate after waiver of his Miranda rights was admissible where there was no evidence of any illegal or improper acts by the police in obtaining it. Where the only evidence of guilt in a murder case was a confession made by the mentally retarded defendant during custodial interrogation, where complete evidence of the severity of his retardation was not introduced at the trial, although such evidence was before the judge at a voir dire on a motion to suppress the confession, and where there was no evidence, either at the voir dire or at the trial, concerning the effect of the defendant's retardation on his ability to make a voluntary confession.
1971 SPECIAL REPORT: MEMPHIS..LIVING IN BLACK POVERTY Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-24 | In 1970, two years after King was killed and the first year the U.S. Census Bureau started collecting poverty data, 42 percent of Black people in Shelby County, where Memphis is located, lived below the poverty line. Since then, the poverty rate for Black people in the county has hovered around 30 percent. #memphis
1987 SPECIAL REPORT: MEMPHIS RACE RELATIONS Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-24 | During the 1970s, African Americans shifted their strategies from protest to political action. Black Memphians were elected at all levels of local, state, and national government as an increasing number of whites left the city to reside in Shelby County's suburban communities. In 1974, after serving two terms in the Tennessee House of Representatives, Harold Ford, Sr. became the first African American from Tennessee elected to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1975-1997. Four years later, Willie Herenton became the first African American to be appointed superintendent of the Memphis City Schools. Herenton held the position until 1991, when he became the first African American to be elected mayor.
1977 SPECIAL REPORT: BOSTON PUBLIC HOUSING Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-21 | The BHA was established on October 1, 1935 by the mayor and city council of Boston under Massachusetts General Law allowing cities and towns of Massachusetts to establish housing authorities. According to Massachusetts law, its mission was to be responsible for providing decent, safe and sanitary housing for families unable to afford housing without public subsidies. BHA was also charged with clearing substandard, decadent or blighted open areas and urban redevelopment, although this responsibility was later transferred to the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) in 1957.The first BHA housing projects were opened between 1938 and 1942.[6]Under the tenure of Boston Mayor John F. Collins (1960–1968), the BHA segregated the public housing developments in the city, moving black families into the development at Columbia Point while reserving developments in South Boston for white families who started refusing assignment to the Columbia Point project by the early 1960s. In 1962, upon receipt of a lawsuit filed by a civil rights group, the West Broadway Housing Development was desegregated after having been designated by the city for white-only occupancy since 1941. In the same year, the Mission Hill project had 1,024 families (all white), while the Mission Hill Extension project across the street had 580 families (of which 500 were black), and in 1967, when the city government agreed to fully desegregate the developments, the projects were still 97 percent white and 98 percent black respectively.The management and governance of the BHA is different from that of other housing authorities since 1975, when BHA was sued in Boston City Housing Court by a group of BHA tenants, represented by Greater Boston Legal Services, regarding poor conditions in housing projects under the authority's control. As a result of the ruling which was in favor of the tenants, a court-appointed master prepared a report listing recommendations that provided the basis for a consent decree signed in 1977 by BHA, Greater Boston Legal Services and the Boston Public Housing Tenants Policy Council. The decree listed a series of improvements that BHA was supposed to make over the course of three years. The master, responsible for monitoring BHA's compliance with the consent decree, gave approval for all major decisions made by the BHA board and administrator.In 1979, the judge ruled that BHA had failed to satisfactorily fulfill the terms of the consent decree and BHA was placed in receivership, with its board of commissioners and administrator replaced by a court-appointed receiver. Since 1990, when the receivership ended, BHA has been directed by an administrator whose activities are reviewed by a nine-member monitoring committee appointed by the mayor of Boston. #BOSTON
1986 SPECIAL REPORT: NEW JERSEY COCAINE KIDS Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-21 | The crack epidemic was a surge of crack cocaine use in major cities across the United States throughout the entirety of the 1980s and the early 1990s. This resulted in a number of social consequences, such as increasing crime and violence in American inner city neighborhoods, a resulting backlash in the form of tough on crime policies, a massive spike in incarceration rates, and a sharp escalation of the war on drugs.
1979 SPECIAL REPORT: TED BUNDY...THE MYSTERY Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-21 | Theodore Robert Bundy was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped and murdered dozens of young women and girls during the 1970s and possibly earlier. After more than a decade of denials, he confessed to 30 murders committed in seven states between 1974 and 1978. His true victim total is unknown. #tedbundy
1971 SPECIAL REPORT: BLACK CHRONICLE Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-21 | This once a week program lasted 30-minutes and ran throughout the 1970s covering the activities of Pittsburgh's black community. The show was nominated for a Peabody Award in 1971 though it did not win. Cathy Milton was a former street reporter, show co-host, and news anchor before becoming the host and co-producer of The Black Chronicle. She was the longest on-air female broadcaster in the Pittsburgh area. Additionally, she was an equal rights activist and keynote speaker at Pittsburgh's NAACP convention. #blackhistory #pittsburgh
1974 SPECIAL REPORT: ATLANTA BLACK ON BLACK CRIME Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-21 | "But what about Black-on-Black crime?"It's a retort sometimes heard in the context of the protests surrounding the death of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter -- often as the idea that there is a rampant crime problem within Black (and mainly urban) communities that some are choosing to ignore in favor of focusing on police brutality.#atlanta #blackhistory
1970 SPECIAL REPORT: BROOKLYN BIRTH CONTROL Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-20 | During the 1960’s and continuing into the 1970’s, the charge that birth control and abortion are integral elements of a white genocidal conspiracy directed against Afro-Americans has been heard with increasing frequency and stridency in black communities. The genocide theory finds greatest acceptance among spokesmen for black nationalist and black revolutionary groups, but suspicion of family planning programs is not limited to them. An analysis of black leadership opinion on birth control is provided in this paper. The black debate over the desirability of population limitation is traced back approximately fifty years. It began with a dispute between those blacks who believed that in sheer numbers there was strength and those blacks, such as W. E. B. DuBois, who argued that among human races, as among vegetables, quality and not quantity counted. An appreciation of the sexual exploitation of the chattel slave in the ante-bellum period, which did not end with emancipation, is also essential to an understanding of the roots and rationale of the genocide notion. #nyc #blackhistory #brooklyn
1962 THROWBACK: DALLAS POLICE SHOOT DEAD BERSERK NEGRO Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-19 | It seems there’s no end to them. They are the recent videos and reports of Black and brown people beaten or killed by law enforcement officers, and they have fueled a national outcry over the disproportionate use of excessive, and often lethal, force against people of color, and galvanized demands for police reform.
1959 SPECIAL REPORT: THE LYNCHING OF MACK PARKER Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-19 | Mack Charles Parker (1936 – April 24, 1959) was an black American victim of lynching in the United States. He had been accused of raping a pregnant white woman in northern Pearl River County, Mississippi. Three days before he was to stand trial, Parker was kidnapped from his jail cell in the Pearl River County Courthouse by a mob, beaten and shot. His body was found in the Pearl River, 20 miles west of Poplarville, 10 days later. Following an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the men who killed him were released. Despite confessions, no one was ever indicted for the killing. Historian Howard Smead called the killing the "last classic lynching in America."#blackhistory
1976 SPECIAL REPORT: EQUALITY Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-19 | Equality is the state of being equal, especially in status, rights and opportunities. Equality means each individual or group of people is given the same resources and opportunities, regardless of their circumstances.
1979 SPECIAL REPORT: BLACK VOTING..THE LAST MAJOR SHACKLE Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-19 | The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the height of the civil rights movement on August 6, 1965, and Congress later amended the Act five times to expand its protections. Designed to enforce the voting rights protected by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the Act sought to secure the right to vote for racial minorities throughout the country, especially in the South. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the Act is considered to be the most effective piece of federal civil rights legislation ever enacted in the country. It is also "one of the most far-reaching pieces of civil rights legislation in U.S. history."The National Archives and Records Administration stated: "The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was the most significant statutory change in the relationship between the federal and state governments in the area of voting since the Reconstruction period following the Civil War".The act contains numerous provisions that regulate elections. The act's "general provisions" provide nationwide protections for voting rights. Section 2 is a general provision that prohibits state and local government from imposing any voting rule that "results in the denial or abridgement of the right of any citizen to vote on account of race or color" or membership in a language minority group. Other general provisions specifically outlaw literacy tests and similar devices that were historically used to disenfranchise racial minorities. The act also contains "special provisions" that apply to only certain jurisdictions. A core special provision is the Section 5 preclearance requirement, which prohibited certain jurisdictions from implementing any change affecting voting without first receiving confirmation from the U.S. attorney general or the U.S. District Court for D.C. that the change does not discriminate against protected minorities. Another special provision requires jurisdictions containing significant language minority populations to provide bilingual ballots and other election materials.Section 5 and most other special provisions applied to jurisdictions encompassed by the "coverage formula" prescribed in Section 4(b). The coverage formula was originally designed to encompass jurisdictions that engaged in egregious voting discrimination in 1965, and Congress updated the formula in 1970 and 1975. In Shelby County v. Holder (2013), the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the coverage formula as unconstitutional, reasoning that it was obsolete. The court did not strike down Section 5, but without a coverage formula, Section 5 is unenforceable. The jurisdictions which had previously been covered by the coverage formula massively increased the rate of voter registration purges after the Shelby decision.In 2021, the Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee Supreme Court ruling reinterpreted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, substantially weakening it. The ruling interpreted the "totality of circumstances" language of Section 2 to mean that it does not generally prohibit voting rules that have disparate impact on the groups that it sought to protect, including a rule blocked under Section 5 before the Court inactivated that section in Shelby County v. Holder. In particular, the ruling held that fears of election fraud could justify such rules, even without evidence that any such fraud had occurred in the past or that the new rule would make elections safer.Research shows that the Act had successfully and massively increased voter turnout and voter registrations, in particular among black people. The Act has also been linked to concrete outcomes, such as greater public goods provision (such as public education) for areas with higher black population shares, more members of Congress who vote for civil rights-related legislation, and greater Black representation in local offices.#blackhistory
1972 SPECIAL REPORT: HOUSTON BLACK HISTORY Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-17 | The African American population in Houston, Texas, has been a significant part of the city's community since its establishment. The Greater Houston area has the largest population of African Americans in Texas and west of the Mississippi River. Black Enterprise has referred to Houston as a Black mecca. #HOUSTON
1985 SPECIAL REPORT: WHOSE AMERICA IS IT?? Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-17 | ''WHOSE AMERICA IS IT?'' recognizes complexity. The ''CBS Reports'' program, on Channel 2 at 8 o'clock tonight, looks at new immigrants, legal and illegal, and says they create problems. At the same time, it assigns no blame. Immigration policy is bedeviled by too many competing factors.And chief among these, of course, are the immigrants themselves. By tradition and practice, America has not penalized immigrants. Assimilation has been the nation's glory; the phrase ''a nation of immigrants'' is a cliche. Immigrants have met hostility and resentment, but our institutions have been flexible enough to accept them. Immigrants, in turn, have accepted our institutions.Thus a problem: What if immigrants decline to learn English? Bill Moyers, the CBS correspondent, reminds us that the United States is now the seventh-largest Spanish-speaking country. Dade County in Florida spends $18 million each year on bilingual education, and still graduates students who do not speak English. They do not need to. It is possible to live in Florida, and prosper, entirely in Spanish.More on U.S. Immigration.
1969 THROWBACK: SOUL CHRISTMAS SPECIAL Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-15 | Soul music dominated the U.S. African-American music charts in the 1960s, and many recordings crossed over into the pop charts in the U.S. Otis Redding was a huge success at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967.[10] The genre also became highly popular in the UK, where many leading acts toured in the late 1960s. "Soul" became an umbrella term for an increasingly wide variety of R&B-based music styles – from the dance and pop-oriented acts at Motown Records in Detroit, such as the Temptations, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder, to "deep soul" performers such as Percy Sledge and James Carr. Different regions and cities within the U.S., including New York City, Detroit, Chicago, Memphis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and Muscle Shoals, Alabama (the home of FAME Studios and Muscle Shoals Sound Studios) became noted for different subgenres of the music and recording styles.By 1968, while at its peak of popularity, soul began to fragment into different subgenres. Artists such as James Brown and Sly and the Family Stone evolved into funk music, while other singers such as Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield and Al Green developed slicker, more sophisticated and in some cases more politically conscious varieties of the genre. However, soul music continued to evolve, informing most subsequent forms of R&B from the 1970s-onward, with pockets of musicians continuing to perform in traditional soul style.
1987 SPECIAL REPORT: SAFE SEX Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-15 | In summary, from prehistory until 1979, safe sex heterogeneously emphasized avoidance of pregnancy and disease; by the early 1980s, it was newly defined in terms of risk reduction and sex positivity, especially for gay men, and would diffuse into mainstream culture by around 1987.
SPECIAL REPORT: TALENT SHOWCASE 1985 Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-15 | What happened in 1985 Major News Stories include Coca-Cola Company introduces New Coke, Heysel Stadium Disaster, Unabomber kills his first victim, CD's Introduced, Wreck of the RMS Titanic Located, Mexico City Earthquake kills 9,000, Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior is sunk by French Agents, As the spread of aids increases Governments round the world start screening Blood donations for AIDS. On the technology front the first .com is registered and the first version of Windows is released Ver 1.0 . Terrorists continue to perform acts of terrorism including the hijack of TWA Flight 847 and the Italian Cruise Liner "Achille Lauro ". Famine in Ethiopia is shown more on TV News in July and Live Aid concerts around the world raise many millions to help the starving in Africa and the pop industry in US joins together to sing "We Are The World". #1980s
1982 SPECIAL REPORT: PLEASURE DRUGS...THE GREAT AMERICAN HIGH Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-15 | People rely on drugs for various reasons: they want to feel euphoric and stop feeling bad, they may be curious about why their friends and family do drugs and want to fit in, or they may want to over-perform at school or at work. It is no secret that drugs can excel the part of your brain that makes you feel good; however, after taking a substance for a while, the feel-good parts of your brain become used to it. Sadly, this means you will need to take more of the drug to experience the same high. Eventually, your brain and body will crave the drug just to feel normal and functional. Feeling sick, frightened, anxious, or irritable without the drug is inevitable. You will no longer experience the feeling of euphoria you first had when you started the drug. Although drug usage typically starts as a form of escapism, it can quickly ruin your life. Here is a list of the six most common feel-good drugs that will result in a crash.
1980 SPECIAL REPORT : THE INVESTIGATORS Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-14 | There is something categorically different about electronic surveillance in our contemporary moment: the extent to which it operates on a mass scale. Wiretapping and electronic eavesdropping was highly individualized up until the 1980s. We were tapping individual telephones and listening to individual conversations. Now, as a result of the rise of “dataveillence” in particular, we're talking about a scale of surveillance that scarcely seems fathomable from the perspective of the 1960s, 1970s, or even the 1980s.Dataveillance is the tracking of metadata. The NSA does listen to people's conversations, which is what we traditionally think “wiretapping” is, but far more often the NSA tracks the data of those conversations. What's important isn't necessarily what you said on the phone but who you called, when you called, where your phone is, the metadata of your financial transactions—that sort of stuff. They triangulate a million different data points and they can come to a very clear understanding of what has happened.But one of the areas in which there is a continuity from even the earliest days of wiretapping, is the extent to which telecommunications industries are complicit in the rise of a surveillance state and the extent to which surveillance data flows between the telecommunication infrastructure and the infrastructure of American law enforcement. The easiest way for law enforcement to tap wires in the 1920s in the service of the war on alcohol wasn’t to actually go and physically tap a wire but to listen in through the Bell System central exchange. Bell publicly resisted complicity in that arrangement, but that's what happened. It’s the same today.Yet people are willing to let companies eavesdrop on them.Those smart speakers? They are essentially wiretaps. They are constantly listening. It’s a new type of corporate surveillance: If they listen to you, they can get you what you want, when you want. People like that. But where else will that data go?What will happen next?Historians are not in the business of prognostication, but the one thing that I can say with some certainty is that electronic surveillance and dataveillance are going to scale. They will be more global and more instantaneous. I can say with much more certainty that that public attention to these issues will wax and wane. This is one of the things that is so striking about the history of wiretapping in the United States: It has never been a secret, but it’s only every 10 to 15 years that there is a major public scandal surrounding it. There are these brief moments of outrage and then there are these long moments of complacency, like now, and that is one thing that has enabled surveillance to persist in the way that it does.
1979 SPECIAL REPORT: CATHOLICS IN AMERICA...A CHURCH IN TURMOIL Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-14 | The Roman Catholic Church is in the midst of the most serious challenge since the 16th century when many protested against the teaching and practices of the Pope, bishops, and priests. Today many Catholics are angry at the leaders of the Church for the sexual abuse by priests and the coverup by bishops.
1985 SPECIAL REPORT: WALL STREET CONNECTION Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-14 | The Reagan years were marked by a renewed push for capitalism and business, with national efforts to de-regulate industries such as telecommunications and aviation. The economy resumed upward growth after a period in the early 1980s of languishing. A report in The New York Times described that the flushness of money and growth during these years had spawned a drug culture of sorts, with a rampant acceptance of cocaine use although the overall percent of actual users was most likely small. A reporter wrote: The Wall Street drug dealer looked like many other successful young female executives. Stylishly dressed and wearing designer sunglasses, she sat in her 1983 Chevrolet Camaro in a no-parking zone across the street from the Marine Midland Bank branch on lower Broadway. The customer in the passenger seat looked like a successful young businessman. But as the dealer slipped him a heat-sealed plastic envelope of cocaine and he passed her cash, the transaction was being watched through the sunroof of her car by Federal drug agents in a nearby building. And the customer — an undercover agent himself -was learning the ways, the wiles and the conventions of Wall Street's drug subculture. — Peter Kerr in The New York Times, 1987.In 1987, the stock market plunged, and, in the relatively brief recession following, the surrounding area lost 100,000 jobs according to one estimate.Since telecommunications costs were coming down, banks and brokerage firms could move away from the Financial District to more affordable locations. One of the firms looking to move away was the NYSE. In 1998, the NYSE and the city struck a $900 million deal which kept the NYSE from moving across the river to Jersey City; the deal was described as the "largest in city history to prevent a corporation from leaving town". #wallstreet
1991 SPECIAL REPORT: GENERATION X Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-14 | Generation X is the demographic cohort following the Baby Boomers and preceding Millennials. Researchers and popular media often use the mid-1960s as its starting birth years and the late 1970s as its ending birth years, with the generation being generally defined as people born from 1965 to 1980. #generationx
1968 SPECIAL REPORT: NEWARK REVISTED Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-13 | "'Newark Revisited' was a half-hour examination of the progress -- if any -- that had been made in Newark, N.J., since the July 1967 riots. A team of WCBS-TV News reporters, who had covered the riots, returned to the city a half-year later for this report."--1968 Peabody Digest. Jim Jensen opens the program and introduces each segment. Chet Curtis' report on law enforcement includes interview with black Police Captain Edward Williams and footage of a junior police patrol meeting and of Frank Grant, Mayor Addonizio's representative in the Central Ward, listening to residents' complaints. Harry Arouh's report on housing includes footage of slums and interview with Dr. George Sternlieb of Rutgers. Jeanne Parr's report on education includes interviews with 2nd grade teacher Peter Paglia and former teacher George Burke. Earl Ubell reports on the shortage of medical care; includes interview with Dr. Aaron Haskin and footage of hospitals and clinics. John Quirt says that Newark's economic situation is no worse than before the riots; his report includes interviews with Henry Connor and Gil Bushburg. Jerome Wilson's report on politics includes interviews with Mayor Addonizio and with mayoral hopeful Kenneth Gibson.#NEWARK
1967 SPECIAL REPORT: EYE ON NEW YORK Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-13 | During the 1960s, a gradual economic and social decay set in. A symptom of the city's waning competitiveness was the loss of both its longtime resident National League baseball teams to booming California; the Dodgers and the Giants both moved after the 1957 season. #nyc
1968 SPECIAL REPORT: SEATTLE POLICE BRUTALITY Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-13 | The Seattle movement was part of the wider Civil Rights Movement, taking place in Seattle, Washington in the 1960s. The movement was reliant on several intersecting movements led by Filipino Americans, Japanese Americans, Chinese Americans, Jews, Latinos, and Native Americans, and the working class.
1961 SPECIAL REPORT: RACISM IN CLEVELAND Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-13 | By the 1950s, a remarkably self-conscious racism had taken hold in Cleveland. Various white leaders acknowledged in private that they knew that race prejudice and discrimination were wrong and would have to change, but they attributed their own persistence in discriminatory practices to their own cultural upbringing, to personal preferences, and to the unproven "fact" that their customers or the general public would not stand for integration and social equality. Another common rationalization was that African Americans somehow were still undeserving of equal treatment, often bolstered with anecdotes intended to illustrate how the black community, in demanding equal treatment through the NAACP, the Urban League (see URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CLEVELAND), or the FUTURE OUTLOOK LEAGUE, had not yet measured up to the self-help standards established by white ethnic communities. Instead, such comments reflected the prejudices of the speakers and their lack of knowledge about individuals and institutions in the African American community, especially those which worked steadily and quietly behind the scenes, like the black churches. This lack of awareness and understanding of the black community had disastrous consequences during the 1960s when overcrowded schools, inequities in housing, and job discrimination became the major issues prompting the formation of a local civil rights organization, the UNITED FREEDOM MOVEMENT, and when riots rocked HOUGH in 1966 and GLENVILLE in 1968.
1977 SPECIAL REPORT: VIOLENCE IN AMERICA(PART III) Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-13 | NBC NEWS spends three hours this evening examining “Violence in America” From 8 to 11, the survey, produced by Stuart Schulberg, bombards its audience with statistics, special polls; newspaper‐headlines, film features, footage from movies and television shows and cautious speculation. The result is vague on possible solutions, but specific in establishing the existence, and continued growth, of violence in this country.Preceded by a warning that the program deals with such subjects as murder, assault, rape and child abuse. and that some viewers, “especially children, may be disturbed by portions of it,” the barrage of evidence is overwhelming. Nothing new is uncovered, but the sheer quantity of material may constitute therapeutic shock value.‘With Edwin Newman as host, the program dabbles briefly in the formal sociology of comparing primitive tribes. The broad question of whether aggresdive tendencies are inherited or acquired is posed, but then is left largely unexplored, as the focus is narrowed to enumerating instances of violence in the family, in urban areas and, increasingly, in formerly “safe” rural settings.Linda Ellerbee is the reporter for the family section. The statistics are predictably unsettling: Half of all murders are family affairs; parents kill more of their children than do accidents or such diseases as leukemia or cerebral palsy; abused children are likely to become ohild abusers, programmed into violence like computers.Carl Stokes analyzes the “subculture of violence” in major cities, concentrating on Detroit. Members of this subculture are generally young, poor and black. Outside the normal boundaries of money and power, according to Mr. Stokes, these people tend to prove their “being a man” by means of violence. One result: “Black men kill and are killed at 10 times the national rate.”Travelling to the small town of Friendship, Wis., Floyd Kalber finds that “seemingly senseless murders are happening in rural areas at a phenomenal rate.” Criminals are becoming more brazen and vicious, and younger and younger. The townspeople blame their new troubles on “outsiders.” Some see television as a factor, creating the impression that other people live differently—that is, more affluently—than they do.The last major section deals with “violence for fun and profit,” for entertainment ranging from sports to movies to television itself, and its widely noted addiction to “action” shows. As Joseph Wambaugh, the writer, notes: “We never use the word ‘violence’ in this industry—it's called action.” A couple of the NBC polls in this area, though, are intriguing. Are sports too violent? 65 percent of the respondents say no. Are television and the movies too violent 72 percent say yes. Furthermore, 70 percent believe that television and movies encourage violence.If all this basic material generates its own peculiar fascination, the production context tends to be uneven. An opening collage, moving from an elderly man feeding pigeons to brief glimpses, of contemporary violence in its myriad forms, set to the sounds of Paul McCartney's “Live and Let Die,” is visually stunning. But a recording of a Tom Lehrer satirical song on Brotherhood Week and a dance sequence about a classroom, while pleasant enough in isolation, are pointless within the overall essay.And, finally, the important questions raised are answered with generalities.In some cases we just don't know, but “we should be able to learn.” In others, the message is gently implied. “You buy the tickets, read the books, turn the dials,” Mr. Newman reminds the audience, “you are the ones paying for it.”A concluding essay offers a profile of an attractive 14‐year‐old boy named Benjy, who “don't feel nothing about” the possibility of killing someone, or who talks about pouring Drano down a lady's throat like a character in the film “Magnum Force.” Why are there so many Benjys, the program asks. “If we don't want a violent society, we'd better find out,” it warns.Coming from a medium that is probably very much part of the problem, that warning and this three‐hour treatment of “Violence in America” is significant and encouraging. Following the 11 o'clock news, the violence special will be used for a live panel discussion on the subject and the program runs from 11:30 to midnight.
1977 SPECIAL REPORT: VIOLENCE IN AMERICA(PART II) Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-12 | NBC NEWS spends three hours this evening examining “Violence in America” From 8 to 11, the survey, produced by Stuart Schulberg, bombards its audience with statistics, special polls; newspaper‐headlines, film features, footage from movies and television shows and cautious speculation. The result is vague on possible solutions, but specific in establishing the existence, and continued growth, of violence in this country.Preceded by a warning that the program deals with such subjects as murder, assault, rape and child abuse. and that some viewers, “especially children, may be disturbed by portions of it,” the barrage of evidence is overwhelming. Nothing new is uncovered, but the sheer quantity of material may constitute therapeutic shock value.‘With Edwin Newman as host, the program dabbles briefly in the formal sociology of comparing primitive tribes. The broad question of whether aggresdive tendencies are inherited or acquired is posed, but then is left largely unexplored, as the focus is narrowed to enumerating instances of violence in the family, in urban areas and, increasingly, in formerly “safe” rural settings.Linda Ellerbee is the reporter for the family section. The statistics are predictably unsettling: Half of all murders are family affairs; parents kill more of their children than do accidents or such diseases as leukemia or cerebral palsy; abused children are likely to become ohild abusers, programmed into violence like computers.Carl Stokes analyzes the “subculture of violence” in major cities, concentrating on Detroit. Members of this subculture are generally young, poor and black. Outside the normal boundaries of money and power, according to Mr. Stokes, these people tend to prove their “being a man” by means of violence. One result: “Black men kill and are killed at 10 times the national rate.”Travelling to the small town of Friendship, Wis., Floyd Kalber finds that “seemingly senseless murders are happening in rural areas at a phenomenal rate.” Criminals are becoming more brazen and vicious, and younger and younger. The townspeople blame their new troubles on “outsiders.” Some see television as a factor, creating the impression that other people live differently—that is, more affluently—than they do.The last major section deals with “violence for fun and profit,” for entertainment ranging from sports to movies to television itself, and its widely noted addiction to “action” shows. As Joseph Wambaugh, the writer, notes: “We never use the word ‘violence’ in this industry—it's called action.” A couple of the NBC polls in this area, though, are intriguing. Are sports too violent? 65 percent of the respondents say no. Are television and the movies too violent 72 percent say yes. Furthermore, 70 percent believe that television and movies encourage violence.If all this basic material generates its own peculiar fascination, the production context tends to be uneven. An opening collage, moving from an elderly man feeding pigeons to brief glimpses, of contemporary violence in its myriad forms, set to the sounds of Paul McCartney's “Live and Let Die,” is visually stunning. But a recording of a Tom Lehrer satirical song on Brotherhood Week and a dance sequence about a classroom, while pleasant enough in isolation, are pointless within the overall essay.And, finally, the important questions raised are answered with generalities.In some cases we just don't know, but “we should be able to learn.” In others, the message is gently implied. “You buy the tickets, read the books, turn the dials,” Mr. Newman reminds the audience, “you are the ones paying for it.”A concluding essay offers a profile of an attractive 14‐year‐old boy named Benjy, who “don't feel nothing about” the possibility of killing someone, or who talks about pouring Drano down a lady's throat like a character in the film “Magnum Force.” Why are there so many Benjys, the program asks. “If we don't want a violent society, we'd better find out,” it warns.Coming from a medium that is probably very much part of the problem, that warning and this three‐hour treatment of “Violence in America” is significant and encouraging. Following the 11 o'clock news, the violence special will be used for a live panel discussion on the subject and the program runs from 11:30 to midnight.
1977 SPECIAL REPORT: VIOLENCE IN AMERICA (PART I) Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-12 | NBC NEWS spends three hours this evening examining “Violence in America” From 8 to 11, the survey, produced by Stuart Schulberg, bombards its audience with statistics, special polls; newspaper‐headlines, film features, footage from movies and television shows and cautious speculation. The result is vague on possible solutions, but specific in establishing the existence, and continued growth, of violence in this country.Preceded by a warning that the program deals with such subjects as murder, assault, rape and child abuse. and that some viewers, “especially children, may be disturbed by portions of it,” the barrage of evidence is overwhelming. Nothing new is uncovered, but the sheer quantity of material may constitute therapeutic shock value.‘With Edwin Newman as host, the program dabbles briefly in the formal sociology of comparing primitive tribes. The broad question of whether aggresdive tendencies are inherited or acquired is posed, but then is left largely unexplored, as the focus is narrowed to enumerating instances of violence in the family, in urban areas and, increasingly, in formerly “safe” rural settings.Linda Ellerbee is the reporter for the family section. The statistics are predictably unsettling: Half of all murders are family affairs; parents kill more of their children than do accidents or such diseases as leukemia or cerebral palsy; abused children are likely to become ohild abusers, programmed into violence like computers.Carl Stokes analyzes the “subculture of violence” in major cities, concentrating on Detroit. Members of this subculture are generally young, poor and black. Outside the normal boundaries of money and power, according to Mr. Stokes, these people tend to prove their “being a man” by means of violence. One result: “Black men kill and are killed at 10 times the national rate.”Travelling to the small town of Friendship, Wis., Floyd Kalber finds that “seemingly senseless murders are happening in rural areas at a phenomenal rate.” Criminals are becoming more brazen and vicious, and younger and younger. The townspeople blame their new troubles on “outsiders.” Some see television as a factor, creating the impression that other people live differently—that is, more affluently—than they do.The last major section deals with “violence for fun and profit,” for entertainment ranging from sports to movies to television itself, and its widely noted addiction to “action” shows. As Joseph Wambaugh, the writer, notes: “We never use the word ‘violence’ in this industry—it's called action.” A couple of the NBC polls in this area, though, are intriguing. Are sports too violent? 65 percent of the respondents say no. Are television and the movies too violent 72 percent say yes. Furthermore, 70 percent believe that television and movies encourage violence.If all this basic material generates its own peculiar fascination, the production context tends to be uneven. An opening collage, moving from an elderly man feeding pigeons to brief glimpses, of contemporary violence in its myriad forms, set to the sounds of Paul McCartney's “Live and Let Die,” is visually stunning. But a recording of a Tom Lehrer satirical song on Brotherhood Week and a dance sequence about a classroom, while pleasant enough in isolation, are pointless within the overall essay.And, finally, the important questions raised are answered with generalities.In some cases we just don't know, but “we should be able to learn.” In others, the message is gently implied. “You buy the tickets, read the books, turn the dials,” Mr. Newman reminds the audience, “you are the ones paying for it.”A concluding essay offers a profile of an attractive 14‐year‐old boy named Benjy, who “don't feel nothing about” the possibility of killing someone, or who talks about pouring Drano down a lady's throat like a character in the film “Magnum Force.” Why are there so many Benjys, the program asks. “If we don't want a violent society, we'd better find out,” it warns.Coming from a medium that is probably very much part of the problem, that warning and this three‐hour treatment of “Violence in America” is significant and encouraging. Following the 11 o'clock news, the violence special will be used for a live panel discussion on the subject and the program runs from 11:30 to midnight.
1983 SPECIAL REPORT: RACIAL PREJUDICE Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-12 | Racism is discrimination and prejudice against people based on their race or ethnicity. Racism can be present in social actions, practices, or political systems (e.g. apartheid) that support the expression of prejudice or aversion in discriminatory practices.
1977 SPECIAL REPORT: CLEVELAND CRIME(PART I) Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-11 | CLEVELAND, Ohio -- In the 1970s, Cleveland lost 23.6 percent of its population, a staggering amount, even considering national trends. In that same decade, it became the first major American city since the Great Depression to default on its loans.
1973 SPECIAL REPORT: BABY JUNKIES Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-10 | “The Littlest Junkie” will be shown on WABC‐TV tonight at 7:30. Written and narrated by Geraldo Rivera, the newsman, the half‐hour “special report” is about heroin addiction in infants born of addicted mothers. It? is subtitled, with chilling irony, “A Children's Story.”Mr. Rivera supplies the grim basic statistics. Of the estimated, perhaps underestimated, 600,000 heroin addicts in the country, at least halt live in New York City.“In 1966 about 300 addicted babies were born here. By 1972 it was around 1,500. Right now 1 out of every 40 babies born in city hospitals is born a heroin addict. And in some hospitals it is as high as 1 in 25,” Mr. Rivera says.The program, produced by Mr. Rivera and Martin Berman, shows several metropolitan hospitals, and the opening scenes include the birth of a heroin‐addicted baby and its subsequent withdrawal convulsions. Most of “The Littlest Junkie” is a horror story. Viewers are warned at the beginning that it may not be for children and could be especially unpleasant for pregnant women.Little or no sympathy is sought for adult addicts. Interviews with several‐ generally reflect their incomprehension, helplessness or ignorance. One social caseworker recounts instances of parents actually “shooting up” a baby to keep it quiet.Most of the addicts seen on the programs are black, but Mr. Rivera stresses that the problem crosses racial, social and economic lines. He estimates that a total of 30 per cent to 40 per cent of the addicted infants are white, Puerto Rican or Oriental.Concern is centered on the newborn infant, the “complëtely innocent addict.” Until recently, most went untreated and, 93 per cent died. Over 30 per cent still die. There are no, programs, Mr. Rivera charges, for following up the long‐term effects of addiction at birth. Programs for prenatal and post‐operative care are inadequate, one of the few exceptions being the constantry impoverished Odyssey, House.The issue is complicated. An addict's withdrawal during pregnancy might trigger withdrawal convulsion in the womb and the child could kick himself to death. As for methadone, a heroinsubstitute for addicts, Mr. Rivera notes that infant withdrawal from methadone could be even more severe than from heroin.One professional observer says that the entire problem is more social than medical. Whatever the label, the prob, lem is graphically delineated “The Littlest Junkie.” Attention, quite obviously, must be paid.Mr. Rivera's presentation is succinctly straightforward and represents an encouraging retreat from some of the more emotional approaches he has peen taking recently on such subjects as old age and migrant workers. As an admitted “advocacy” journalist, Mr. Rivera tends toward social issues inherently charged with emotion. Those issues don't, need repotorial tugging at the heartstrings. The viewer should remember the subject, not the reporter's performance. Few viewers are likely to forget “The Littlest Junkie.”#nyc
1976 SPECIAL REPORT: THE NATION OF ISLAM IN TRANSITION(PART II) Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-10 | In 1975, Elijah Muhammad died and was succeeded by his son, Wallace Muhammad. Wallace Muhammad had had a strained relationship with his father and his father's teachings; while imprisoned in the early 1960s he had moved closer to Sunni Islam and had left the Nation on several occasions during the 1960s and 1970s, having re-joined in 1974. As leader, Wallace Muhammad launched what he called a "Second Resurrection" in the movement.He increasingly aligned the group with Sunni Islam, rejecting many of the Nation's idiosyncratic teachings, including its claim that Fard was God, that Elijah Muhammad had been a prophet, the Myth of Yakub, and the claims about the Mother Plane. He retained the Nation's themes of black pride, healthy diets, sexual modesty, and economic self-determination. "Temples" were renamed "mosques", while "ministers" were renamed "imams". The FOI was disbanded, with Wallace calling it a "hooligan outfit". Black nationalism was abandoned, and the ban on white people joining the Nation was lifted.In November 1976, the Nation was renamed the World Community of al-Islam in the West, and in April 1978, it was renamed the American Muslim Mission.Wallace Muhammad also renamed himself, first to Warith Deen and then to Warithuddin Muhammad.Wallace Muhammad claimed that these changes were in accordance with his father's intentions; he claimed to be in contact with Fard Muhammad, and that the founder had established the NOI's idiosyncratic beliefs as a means of gradually introducing Islamic teachings to African Americans, with the ultimate intention of bringing them to mainstream Sunni Islam.He claimed that the Nation's old belief that the white man was the Devil referred to mental whiteness, a state that is rebelling against Allah, rather than light-skinned people themselves. Most mosques remained with Wallace Muhammad during these reforms but some mosques rejected them, seeking to return to the group's original teachings; small splinter groups emerged in Detroit, Atlanta, and Baltimore. In 1985, Wallace Muhammad disbanded the organization, telling his followers to affiliate instead with their local mosques.#MALCOMX
1976 SPECIAL REPORT: THE NATION OF ISLAM IN TRANSITION(PART I) Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-10 | In 1975, Elijah Muhammad died and was succeeded by his son, Wallace Muhammad.Wallace Muhammad had had a strained relationship with his father and his father's teachings; while imprisoned in the early 1960s he had moved closer to Sunni Islam and had left the Nation on several occasions during the 1960s and 1970s, having re-joined in 1974. As leader, Wallace Muhammad launched what he called a "Second Resurrection" in the movement.He increasingly aligned the group with Sunni Islam, rejecting many of the Nation's idiosyncratic teachings, including its claim that Fard was God, that Elijah Muhammad had been a prophet, the Myth of Yakub, and the claims about the Mother Plane. He retained the Nation's themes of black pride, healthy diets, sexual modesty, and economic self-determination. "Temples" were renamed "mosques", while "ministers" were renamed "imams". The FOI was disbanded, with Wallace calling it a "hooligan outfit". Black nationalism was abandoned, and the ban on white people joining the Nation was lifted.In November 1976, the Nation was renamed the World Community of al-Islam in the West, and in April 1978, it was renamed the American Muslim Mission. Wallace Muhammad also renamed himself, first to Warith Deen and then to Warithuddin Muhammad. Wallace Muhammad claimed that these changes were in accordance with his father's intentions;[328] he claimed to be in contact with Fard Muhammad, and that the founder had established the NOI's idiosyncratic beliefs as a means of gradually introducing Islamic teachings to African Americans, with the ultimate intention of bringing them to mainstream Sunni Islam.He claimed that the Nation's old belief that the white man was the Devil referred to mental whiteness, a state that is rebelling against Allah, rather than light-skinned people themselves. Most mosques remained with Wallace Muhammad during these reforms but some mosques rejected them, seeking to return to the group's original teachings small splinter groups emerged in Detroit, Atlanta, and Baltimore. In 1985, Wallace Muhammad disbanded the organization, telling his followers to affiliate instead with their local mosques.
EARLY 1960s SPECIAL REPORT: GRAND THEFT AUTO Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-09 | Grand theft auto is typically charged as a felony and can result in jail time of a year or more. In order to prove that grand theft auto has occurred, a prosecutor must show that the defendant took a vehicle that belonged to someone else with the intent to permanently deprive the owner of their vehicle.
1969 SPECIAL REPORT: A WEEKEND AT ALTAMONT Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-09 | The Altamont Speedway Free Festival was a counterculture rock concert in the United States, held on Saturday, December 6, 1969, at the Altamont Speedway outside of Tracy, California. Approximately 300,000 attended the concert, with some anticipating that it would be a "Woodstock West". The Woodstock festival had taken place in Bethel, New York, in mid-August, almost four months earlier.The event is remembered for its use of Hells Angels as security and its significant violence, including the stabbing death of Meredith Hunter and three accidental deaths: two from a hit-and-run car accident, and one from an LSD-induced drowning in an irrigation canal. Scores were injured, numerous cars were stolen (and subsequently abandoned), and there was extensive property damage.The concert featured performances (in order of appearance) by Santana, Jefferson Airplane, the Flying Burrito Brothers, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY), with the Rolling Stones taking the stage as the final act. The Grateful Dead were also scheduled to perform after CSNY, but shortly before their scheduled appearance, they chose not to due to the increasing violence at the venue. "That's the way things went at Altamont—so badly that the Grateful Dead, the prime organizers and movers of the festival, didn't even get to play," wrote staff at Rolling Stone magazine in a detailed narrative on the event, terming it, in an additional follow-up piece, "rock and roll's all-time worst day, December 6th, a day when everything went perfectly wrong."Filmmakers Albert and David Maysles shot footage of the event and incorporated it into the 1970 documentary film titled Gimme Shelter.
1969 SPECIAL REPORT: FOR WOMEN ONLY...MARIJUANA AND LSD Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-09 | The sixties were the time for hippies and cannabis. And it was this very same moment of time that pushed the social acceptance of marijuana use. The exploration of psychedelic drugs was combined with its therapeutic potential, eventually leading up to 1967's Summer of Love.
EARLY 1960s SPECIAL REPORT: UFOs...DO THEY REALLY EXIST Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-09 | The possibility of extraterrestrial life has always fascinated humans. People have speculated about alien life on Mars and other nearby planets ever since we realized they were different from the other points of light in the night sky. Today, even though our technological capabilities have allowed us to study those worlds up close and even peer at (and listen to) planets around other stars, we still don’t have a concrete answer to the question of whether we are alone in the Universe.The lack of evidence of life beyond Earth doesn’t mean we don’t have any idea what could or should be out there. The more we learn about the Cosmos — from the planets and moons in our Solar System to the great expanse beyond — the more confident we become that alien life must be out there.Lots of people believe in aliens, although this belief tends to be based on movies and UFO claims. But science provides insights for the likelihood that we’re not alone in the Universe, and can answer some of the biggest questions people might have about what kind of life is most likely to actually be out there.#UFOS
1976 SPECIAL REPORT: RIKERS ISLAND Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-08 | Rikers Island is a 413-acre island in the East River in the Bronx that contains New York City's largest jail. Named after Abraham Rycken, who took possession of the island in 1664, the island was originally under 100 acres in size, but has since grown to more than 400 acres.#NYC #rikersisland
1981 SPECIAL REPORT: MURDER...TEENAGE STYLE Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-08 | Worldwide over 176 000 homicides occur among youth 15–29 years of age each year, which is 37% of the total number of homicides globally each year. Homicide is the third leading cause of death in people aged 15–29 years, and the vast majority of homicides involve male victims. For each young person killed, many more sustain injuries requiring hospital treatment. When it is not fatal, youth violence has a serious, often lifelong, impact on a person's physical, psychological and social functioning.
1996 THROWBACK: YEAR IN HIP-HOP Hezakya Newz & Films 2024-02-08 | Hip hop star Tupac Shakur dies on September 13, 1996 of gunshot wounds suffered in a Las Vegas drive-by shooting. More than a decade after his death on this day in 1996, rapper Tupac Shakur remains one of the most recognizable faces and voices in hip-hop.
