Chris Stewart - Fall 2000
Born and raised in Columbia, MD, Chris is currently a senior at Hampton University. Chris has held a variety of positions at his campus newspaper The Hampton Script over the past two years including staff writer, campus news editor and associate editor. At the NABJ convention over the summer, he accepted an award from the Black College Communications Association (BCCA) for the best in-depth story. Chris' passion for journalism is the embedded in the search for truth, justice, and the liberation of the Black and oppressed people of Amerikkka primarily, and the world secondarily. After Scripps Howard, Chris plans on becoming a metro/community affairs and justice reporter. He has a great love for his God, his family, his people and the Black community and always puts them first and foremost in his writing. In his spare time, he likes to write, read, interact with others (especially females), cook, listen to music and travel.
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Muslims observe Ramadan for physical and spiritual renewal
Submitted on December 7, 2000 - 1:00am. Chris Stewart - Fall 2000Thirty-one-year-old Asad Abdurrahman is using this month to build his inner power. Everyday, he studies his Holy Qu'ran, prays at least five times and refrains from eating or drinking from sunrise to sunset."The purpose is to learn self-restraint," he said. "It's more that just refraining ..
Protesters' showdown before Supreme Court
Submitted on December 1, 2000 - 1:00am. Chris Stewart - Fall 2000WASHINGTON- You can march. You can picket. You have every right to do so.But what makes you think you'll change what the Justices will decide?You couldn't tell that to the hundreds of Gore/Bush supporters at the steps of the highest court in the land yesterday. And you sure couldn't ..
Protestors showdown at Supreme Court
Submitted on December 1, 2000 - 1:00am. Chris Stewart - Fall 2000WASHINGTON- Dec. 1. You can march. You can picket. You have every right to do so.But what makes you think you'll change what the Justices will decide?You couldn't tell that to the hundreds of Gore/Bush supporters at the steps of the highest court in the land yesterday. And you sure ..
Hunger strike hopes to raise awareness of Palestinian fighting
Submitted on November 7, 2000 - 1:00am. Chris Stewart - Fall 2000About 20 hunger-striking demonstrators gathered in front of the White House over the past week to protest fighting in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that has claimed the lives of more than 160 people, most of them Palestinians.Demonstrators made beds with their sleeping bags and blankets at their ..
Farrakhan calls for unity at Million Family March
Submitted on October 19, 2000 - 12:00am. Chris Stewart - Fall 2000Thousands heeded the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan's call to unity on Oct. 16 at the nation's capital.After a national promotional tour, tens upon thousands of families flew, drove and rode to the Mall in search of peace, solidarity and atonement. They came under the motto, "We come as ..
The hidden, forgotten and downtrodden to be recognized by U.S. memorial
Submitted on October 5, 2000 - 12:00am. Chris Stewart - Fall 2000WASHINGTON- Emmanuel, Ned, Henry, Edward, Peter, Nace, Will, Tom, Charles, Alexander and others finally will be officially recognized by the U.S. Congress.The fruits of their slave labor built the 200-year-old Capitol. Soon, a task force committee will be appointed to expedite the construction of ..
Supporters fight to save D.C. hospital
Submitted on October 4, 2000 - 12:00am. Chris Stewart - Fall 2000WASHINGTON- They came in peace, from the elderly who hobbled up Independence Avenue to the young. They climbed out of chartered buses singing, "We Shall Overcome" and marched circles on Capitol Hill, yelling their rallying cry, "Save D.C. General!"On Sept. 29, their small, 50-man army came to win ..
Hampton officials, boosters break ground on new $4M media center
Submitted on September 29, 2000 - 12:00am. Chris Stewart - Fall 2000HAMPTON, VA. It couldn't have been a better day. The sun shone brightly on campus at midday as a handful of men and women in business attire lined up on a mound with blue hats and gold shovels. It's just what the doctor ordered for the Sept. 22 groundbreaking of the Scripps Howard Center at ..
New Black Panthers pressure attorney's action
Submitted on September 19, 2000 - 12:00am. Chris Stewart - Fall 2000In an attempt to press Virginia Commonwealth's Attorney Robert F. Horan Jr. to charge the officer involved in the Sept. 1 shooting and killing of unarmed 25-year-old Prince Jones, representatives from the New Black Panther Party for Self Defense convened outside his office on Sept. 18.Flanked ..
COINTELPRO spurs probe by activists
Submitted on September 15, 2000 - 12:00am. Chris Stewart - Fall 2000It's the hate that hate produced. It's the hate and fear that destroyed progressive Black nationalist and revolutionary movements of the late ‘60s and ‘70s.The product of then FBI Commissioner J. Edgar Hoover, COINTELPRO (counterintelligence program) was the apex of a fiery presentation ..
