#cbs2

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Bea doodles:

The summer outfit is what she's wearing in the CBS2: Litha ficlet, so now you know what Rain was seeing and yet...

I've been doodling some of her outfits from the ficlets to get a sense of what her style is/get a feel for her personality and how she expresses it with her fashion choices.

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In addition to AI, the 10 Million Names Project is employing oral histories and archived documents to help identify 10 million enslaved people in pre- and post-colonial America.

When journalist Dorothy Tucker first learned about the 10 Million Names genealogical project, it helped amplify memories of long car journeys from Chicago to “Down South” in the 1960’s, where her mother’s family owned land.

The Mississippi property purchased by her great-grandfather George Trice in 1881 was special for several reasons. First, nobody’s really sure how a formerly enslaved man was able to purchase 160 acres, but Trice came up with the $800. And every time Tucker and her family drove down to Shannon, Mississippi each summer to visit relatives, it was more than just a vacation.

“I'd wake up in the morning and have breakfast at my aunt's house. I'd go a few feet down the road and have lunch at my great-aunt's house. And then I'd play outside at my cousin's house,” says Tucker, an award-winning investigative journalist with CBS2 WBBM-TV in Chicago. “It was that way all day long. Every house was owned by a relative. I thought everybody lived like this. I thought everybody had land and stuff that was theirs.”

Tucker finally got specific details about how and why that land was purchased during the final months of her term as president of the National Association of Black Journalists. In early 2023, NABJ Board Member Paula Madison, a retired NBC Universal executive, informed the group about an offshoot of the Georgetown Memory Project, the initiative that unearthed information about the 1838 sale of enslaved Africans to fund Georgetown University. The 10 Million Names Project was created to recover the names of an estimated 10 million men, women and children of African descent who were enslaved in pre- and post-colonial America between the 1500’s and 1865. By engaging with expert genealogists, cultural organizations, and family historians both Black and white, the initiative hopes to provide more African Americans with information that only formally began to be captured for their ancestors in the 1870 United States Census.

Up until that year, enslaved Africans and their descendants were only acknowledged as the property of their owners. If their existence was noted, it was in the form of sales documents or as catalogued property in civil records. Also, the relatives of enslavers often maintain troves of information about those purchased and sold off that would otherwise be completely lost.

(This database is helping to uncover the lost ancestry of enslaved African Americans.)

Much of the work will be dependent on oral histories passed down thru generations of families, and researchers of the 10 Million Names Project also hope that more white families will aid in the search by making familial records, like letters and pages from family bibles, available to them.

Tucker, who ended her term as NABJ president during that organization’s annual conference in August, revealed at the awards banquet in Birmingham, Alabama that she’d been able to learn more about her great grandfather’s real-estate ventures, through a collaboration between NABJ and the New England Historical Genealogical Society’s American Ancestors initiative.

The 10 Million Names Project was formally launched at the convention. Tucker considers it an especially timely parting gift to her journalistic colleagues. As societal divisions along racial lines widen, hate crimes continue, and attempts to ban books and curtail African American studies programs in schools and universities increase, strengthening historical knowledge is urgently important for Black Americans, Tucker says.

“I think that the ability to tell these stories and to know them is so critically important,” she says. “When you know your personal story, then as a journalist, it gives you the perspective to dig deeper when you're doing the next story, whether it’s about the school board or about Ukraine or the next elections. You know, these stories are all tools that are really good for all of us.”

How the initiative evolved

The man who is the catalyst for the Georgetown Memory Project and 10 Million Names says he’s never really been interested in investigating his own family tree.

“To me, genealogy was sort of like butterfly collecting,” says Richard Cellini, a faculty fellow at Harvard University and founding director of the Harvard Legacy of Slavery Remembrance Program. “It’s impressive because of the amount of effort invested into it. But I never quite understood the point.”

Cellini was born in 1963 in Central Pennsylvania to a Penn State University professor and homemaker mother. His Catholic upbringing steered him to Georgetown University and an eventual decade-long law career before pivoting toward the software and technology realm. In 2015, Cellini learned that his alma mater had formed a working group to explore the sale of 272 men, woman, and children in 1838 to rescue the university from bankruptcy. As a white American of European descent, he says he did not live with or know many Black people growing up, going to school or during his legal and technology careers, so the initiative opened a window in his mind.

When Georgetown President John DeGioia invited alumni to weigh in, Cellini wrote an email asking one simple question that had nothing to do with the university. He wanted to know, “What happened to the people?”

Cellini says a senior member of the working group wrote back to say that research had concluded that all of the enslaved men, women, and children had died fairly quickly after arriving in the swamps of Louisiana where they had been transported.

“And I remember just staring at that email, even though I didn't really know much about the history of slavery or African American history, and just thinking that just doesn't make any sense,” Cellini says. Curiosity drove him to form an independent research group, funded initially through his own credit card and then from other Georgetown alumni who eagerly offered financial backing. To date, the Georgetown Memory Project has fully identified 236 of the 272 enslaved people sold by the university's leaders. Of those identified through archival records, the project has verified more than 10,000 of their direct descendants.

“The 1838 slave sale at Georgetown brought home to me, again, they were real people with real families and real names,” Cellini says. “More than 50 percent of them were children. William was the youngest, and he was six months old. And Daniel was the oldest at 80. Len was sickly, and Stephen was lame. I mean, this is all from the original documentation. From that moment on, I just couldn't get it out of my head.”

The gathering of history

The genealogists and historians connected with the project suggest that the richest vein of information may well be in the oral histories they’ve already begun gathering through hundreds of interviews. They contain fascinating stories like the ones that Kendra Field’s grandmother Odevia Brown used to tell about her African American and Native American forebears in Oklahoma. When Field was in high school, she never really liked history classes, but she always loved her grandmother’s stories.

“It wasn't until I got to college that I realized, thanks to a wonderful professor, that my grandmother's stories were history,” Field says.  After the death of her father, Field began to travel back to those historically Black Oklahoma towns to explore her African American and Creek Indian heritage. Now in her career as a historian, author and professor at Tufts University, Field also has taken on the role of chief historian for 10 Million Names.

Technology, including the use of artificial intelligence programs, is allowing project investigators to do quicker, more efficient searches for information. Field says that can happen by identifying the location of plantation ledgers, advertisements, and receipts from auctions. “Particularly, there's been a lot of advancements made in optical character recognition, which allows researchers to identify names and handwritten records,” Field says. 

Prior to this, a researcher had to find the document, transcribe the information, and then pivot to another database to go deeper. But with the development of other genealogical data sets such as Enslaved.org, locating individuals and making connections becomes much easier. “So that means we can move closer to that 10 million much more quickly than we would have been able to even a decade ago,” Field says. Also, the collection at the Library of Congress, “Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938” has yielded important clues from the estimated 2,300 people interviewed during that project.

(The search for lost slave ships led this diver on an extraordinary journey.)

Though identifying 10 million people who were never meant to be known as human beings may sound like a staggering task, the people behind the initiative believe it’s a totally attainable goal—even amidst all the current cultural and ideological turmoil in American society. That’s because, Cellini says, there are certain inalienable truths in this world.

“John Adams said that facts are stubborn things. You know, our Black brothers and sisters have always known their history and white people have always tried to prevent Black people from learning that history. What's new here is that white people are now trying to prevent other white people from learning this history.”

Cellini believes that Black Americans aren’t the only ones who want or need to know the full story. “It's white people who hunger for knowledge of that history, as well. It’s our duty to engage in determined resistance, to strike repeated blows for the truth. And nothing is more stubborn than facts.”

And like journalist Tucker, Cellini believes the search is infinitely for the benefit of the whole of society.

“The hard part isn't the finding,” Cellini says of the effort. “The hard part is the looking. But when we look, we find. And when we find, the whole world changes.”

[freddyfreeman]

So, avian flu has now been found in wild birds in a Manhatten park. CBS2 reported on it.

Be safe, everyone.

[beardedmrbean]

NEW YORK - Police are searching for two suspects after a father and his 7-year-old son were shot with BB gun pellets outside a kosher supermarket on Staten Island. 

The incident is now being investigated as a possible hate crime. 

As CBS2's Elijah Westbrook reports, area residents say the attack sounds scary and saddening at the same time. 

"It's very troubling. I have children and grandchildren here in this community. We live here and it's very peaceful and when you hear something like that happening, it's very scary," one person said. 

A 35-year-old man his 7-year-old son were struck by pellets from a BB gun on Victory Boulevard in the Meiers Corners neighborhood of Staten Island. Police don't know yet why the attack took place, but it has sparked the NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force to get involved, and it's investigating if the family was targeted because they're Jewish. 

Police say the two were in front of the Island Kosher supermarket Sunday around 4:30 p.m. when they say two suspects shot them. The boy was grazed in the ear, while his father was hit in the chest. Both refused medical attention and are expected to be OK. 

The suspects, who are still at large, were last seen taking off in a black Ford Mustang. No description of what they look like has been provided. 

It is still unclear if in fact this was a hate crime, but overall they are up this year by at least 90 incidents compared to the same time last year. Police say that's 17.8% more. 

"This is a big Jewish neighborhood with shopping and everything out here. Whether you're Jewish or not, it's terrible. It shouldn't happen to anybody," one person said. 

"We're all brothers and sisters here. We all love each other, and it should all be peaceful," said another. 

The investigation continues into a crime that's leaving the neighborhood on edge. 

Anyone with any information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). You can also submit a tip via their website or via DM on Twitter, @NYPDTips. All calls are kept confidential.  

[captawesomesauce]

CBS2 is reporting that Leslie Jordan died :( Dude seemed like an awesome person and was funny as hell.

[alarmist-nonsense]

"“I struggle with it because I’m terrified of guns but at the same time, I’m also terrified of what can happen to me just being in my community without one,” Winters said. “We’re single women moving through the South and West Side communities so it’s just a matter of safety,” Winters explained. 

For Black women, protecting their own lives is existential. Research shows that the West Side communities last year reported the most robberies in the city. A CBS2 analysis of police data also showed that in 2022, Black women were the victims in 35% of city assaults, 38% of batteries and 50% of human-trafficking cases but make up only 16% of the city’s population."

[lurchsworld]

Megan Glaros 2018/01/17 CBS2

[rebeleden]

Bling Bishop Lamor Whitehead has Fraud Charges after The Robbery in chur...

[notmuchtoconceal]

-- From the Rolling Stones to Chance the Rapper, it's been years since musicians performed at the iconic Double Door theater in Wicker Park.

-- Plans have been in the works to reopen the shuttered venue in Uptown. CBS2's Noel Brennan caught up with the owners who are hoping to revive Double Door inside an Historic Place.

( o )

"I'm the Hardware, he's kind of the Software and We fuse together perfectly."

"I like that."

"Yeah?"

"I'm gonna use that."

"Yeah, it's yours."

"Well, it's Ours."

Business partners riff... like they're bandmates.

"Keith Richards and Mic Jagger were referred to as the Glimmer Twins in the early Stones era. So since we're basically the same age, we have taken the mantle and we're running with it.

The Glimmer Twins."

Sean Malroney.

"I had the space..."

and Pete Bruce... give each other credit where credit is due.

"Sean's just genius with music. I don't have an ounce of musical ability in my whole body."

"He's the guy who rolls up his sleeves and knocks **** down and punches holes in things."

They're putting their talents together. Here. In Uptown.

"The Wilson Theater, built in 1909 as a Vaudeville burlesque theater, but then in 1919 the building was converted into a bank."

A bank it's been. Until friends bought it.

"So they gave us a price. Pete went in and said "I have this, I'll offer ya this" and they took it."

Sean and Pete needed a space to reintroduce Double Door.

"We did every style of music, every way of music. We did over 250 or 60 shows a year."

"Rolling Stones. Smashing Pumpkins who played here (there) 5 times. Double Door was known internationally and I can assure you that that's the case."

The music venue that Sean helped open in 1994 had a home in Wicker Park until 2017 when a dispute with the landlord lead to an eviction and the eventual sale of the building.

"Realizing the impact the Double Door had on other people's lives... I didn't have any clue about until we closed."

(He he he he he)

"It feels like a knuckle-breaker."

(Ha ha ha!)

But for the past three years, they've been working on a second act.

"We're going to keep the Grunge that was Double Door. It has to be... We're a Dirty Rock Club."

"It's just a place to be yourself... and to Just Be."

The first step in making this a music venue requires Breaking the Bank... Literally.

[bzzzzz]

"I wake up every morning and just can't wait to get to work and figure out what I'm gonna...

[clank]

Demolition today."

Pete has done most of the Demo work...

[clash]

Solo.

"These are parts to a 1919 vault door that weighed 8 tons... and there was approximately 2400 pieces to this door and I dismantled it piece-by-piece."

A process as lengthy as waiting on the City to approve a design.

"Because this is a historic building, we had to go through the Landmark's approval. The extensive research and investigation they had to do structurally was... you know, was time consuming."

As of December, they have permits for construction, but they're holding out hope for a grant.

"We have had had incredible input and feedback from the City of Chicago with their Cultural Recovery Grant which is federally funded."

This duo won't give up on opening doors... to the Double Door Theater.

"Late '24/Early '25."

You can take that to the bank!

"Anybody needs their old vault broken into, call me. I can do it."

Noel Brennan CBS2 News.

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Vietnam vet returns lost diary to fallen soldier's family

May 13, 2023 A Vietnam veteran from Bergenfield, New Jersey recently returned something he found on the battlefield almost six decades ago. It seemed an impossible task when he decided it was finally time to do it, but he soon found out the information he needed was right in front of him. CBS2's Kristine Johnson reports.

[bergamorisvegliata]

LE NOTIZIE...QUELLE BELLE

I poliziotti eroi di New York trasportano quattro anziani fuori da un edificio in fiamme sulle loro spalle

Gli agenti del 5° distretto della polizia di New York non avevano intenzione di aspettare che i vigili del fuoco arrivassero al condominio di 6 piani in fiamme proprio di fronte alla porta della stazione. Gli agenti Willian Finan e William Dottavio insieme ad altri due colleghi sono intervenuti dopo che i residenti in fuga dall'incendio hanno detto che c'erano degli anziani intrappolati all'interno. "Ricordo in modo molto specifico che un ragazzo si avvicinò a me e disse: 'Mamma, mamma, 6° piano' e a quel punto sapevo che dovevamo salire lassù", ha detto l'ufficiale della polizia di New York Jeremy Banfield, parlando con Fox 5 dal loro distretto di New York. La Chinatown di York.

Il filmato diffuso dalla body cam indossato da Dottavio mostra l'agente Finan che esce dall'edificio con una donna di 99 anni sulle spalle, prima che Dottavio salga 5 rampe di scale per trovare il quarto membro della squadra di soccorso, il detective Rodney Rosado, che esce con un'altra donna anziana. Tra i quattro uomini, sono riusciti a salvare l'uomo di 99 anni, due uomini anziani di 96 e 91 anni, nonché una quarta donna la cui età non è stata resa nota, tutto solo 5 giorni prima di Natale.

ALTRE STORIE COME QUESTA: Guarda gli eroi dei vigili del fuoco eseguire un salvataggio incredibile, calandosi in corda doppia lungo un grattacielo di New York “Dopo che hai finito e dopo aver portato tutti fuori da lì, e vedi che le vacanze sono arrivate, allora inizi a pensare wow. Avrebbe potuto essere completamente diverso", ha detto l'agente Rosado.

GUARDA la storia qui sotto da Fox News...

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I found this on NewsBreak: Former CBS2 journalist Arnold Diaz dies at age 74

I found this on NewsBreak: Former CBS2 journalist Arnold Diaz dies at age 74

[xtruss]

This historical photograph shows an enslaved African American family or families posing in front of a wooden house on a plantation in Hanover County, Virginia. Photograph By G.H. Houghton, Library of Congress

10 million Enslaved Americans' Names Are Missing From History. AI Is Helping Identify Them.

In addition to AI, the 10 Million Names Project is employing oral histories and archived documents to help identify 10 million enslaved people in pre- and post-colonial America.

— By Rachel Jones | August 31, 2023

When journalist Dorothy Tucker first learned about the 10 Million Names genealogical project, it helped amplify memories of long car journeys from Chicago to “Down South” in the 1960’s, where her mother’s family owned land.

The Mississippi property purchased by her great-grandfather George Trice in 1881 was special for several reasons. First, nobody’s really sure how a formerly enslaved man was able to purchase 160 acres, but Trice came up with the $800. And every time Tucker and her family drove down to Shannon, Mississippi each summer to visit relatives, it was more than just a vacation.

“I'd wake up in the morning and have breakfast at my aunt's house. I'd go a few feet down the road and have lunch at my great-aunt's house. And then I'd play outside at my cousin's house,” says Tucker, an award-winning investigative journalist with CBS2 WBBM-TV in Chicago. “It was that way all day long. Every house was owned by a relative. I thought everybody lived like this. I thought everybody had land and stuff that was theirs.”

Tucker finally got specific details about how and why that land was purchased during the final months of her term as president of the National Association of Black Journalists. In early 2023, NABJ Board Member Paula Madison, a retired NBC Universal executive, informed the group about an offshoot of the Georgetown Memory Project, the initiative that unearthed information about the 1838 sale of enslaved Africans to fund Georgetown University. The 10 Million Names Project was created to recover the names of an estimated 10 million men, women and children of African descent who were enslaved in pre- and post-colonial America between the 1500’s and 1865. By engaging with expert genealogists, cultural organizations, and family historians both Black and white, the initiative hopes to provide more African Americans with information that only formally began to be captured for their ancestors in the 1870 United States Census.

Up until that year, enslaved Africans and their descendants were only acknowledged as the property of their owners. If their existence was noted, it was in the form of sales documents or as catalogued property in civil records. Also, the relatives of enslavers often maintain troves of information about those purchased and sold off that would otherwise be completely lost.

Much of the work will be dependent on oral histories passed down thru generations of families, and researchers of the 10 Million Names Project also hope that more white families will aid in the search by making familial records, like letters and pages from family bibles, available to them.

Tucker, who ended her term as NABJ president during that organization’s annual conference in August, revealed at the awards banquet in Birmingham, Alabama that she’d been able to learn more about her great grandfather’s real-estate ventures, through a collaboration between NABJ and the New England Historical Genealogical Society’s American Ancestors initiative.

The 10 Million Names Project was formally launched at the convention. Tucker considers it an especially timely parting gift to her journalistic colleagues. As societal divisions along racial lines widen, hate crimes continue, and attempts to ban books and curtail African American studies programs in schools and universities increase, strengthening historical knowledge is urgently important for Black Americans, Tucker says.

“I think that the ability to tell these stories and to know them is so critically important,” she says. “When you know your personal story, then as a journalist, it gives you the perspective to dig deeper when you're doing the next story, whether it’s about the school board or about Ukraine or the next elections. You know, these stories are all tools that are really good for all of us.”

How the Initiative Evolved

The man who is the catalyst for the Georgetown Memory Project and 10 Million Names says he’s never really been interested in investigating his own family tree.

“To me, genealogy was sort of like butterfly collecting,” says Richard Cellini, a faculty fellow at Harvard University and founding director of the Harvard Legacy of Slavery Remembrance Program. “It’s impressive because of the amount of effort invested into it. But I never quite understood the point.”

Cellini was born in 1963 in Central Pennsylvania to a Penn State University professor and homemaker mother. His Catholic upbringing steered him to Georgetown University and an eventual decade-long law career before pivoting toward the software and technology realm. In 2015, Cellini learned that his alma mater had formed a working group to explore the sale of 272 men, woman, and children in 1838 to rescue the university from bankruptcy. As a white American of European descent, he says he did not live with or know many Black people growing up, going to school or during his legal and technology careers, so the initiative opened a window in his mind.

When Georgetown President John DeGioia invited alumni to weigh in, Cellini wrote an email asking one simple question that had nothing to do with the university. He wanted to know, “What happened to the people?”

Cellini says a senior member of the working group wrote back to say that research had concluded that all of the enslaved men, women, and children had died fairly quickly after arriving in the swamps of Louisiana where they had been transported.

“And I remember just staring at that email, even though I didn't really know much about the history of slavery or African American history, and just thinking that just doesn't make any sense,” Cellini says. Curiosity drove him to form an independent research group, funded initially through his own credit card and then from other Georgetown alumni who eagerly offered financial backing. To date, the Georgetown Memory Project has fully identified 236 of the 272 enslaved people sold by the university's leaders. Of those identified through archival records, the project has verified more than 10,000 of their direct descendants.

“The 1838 slave sale at Georgetown brought home to me, again, they were real people with real families and real names,” Cellini says. “More than 50 percent of them were children. William was the youngest, and he was six months old. And Daniel was the oldest at 80. Len was sickly, and Stephen was lame. I mean, this is all from the original documentation. From that moment on, I just couldn't get it out of my head.”

The Gathering of History

The genealogists and historians connected with the project suggest that the richest vein of information may well be in the oral histories they’ve already begun gathering through hundreds of interviews. They contain fascinating stories like the ones that Kendra Field’s grandmother Odevia Brown used to tell about her African American and Native American forebears in Oklahoma. When Field was in high school, she never really liked history classes, but she always loved her grandmother’s stories.

“It wasn't until I got to college that I realized, thanks to a wonderful professor, that my grandmother's stories were history,” Field says. After the death of her father, Field began to travel back to those historically Black Oklahoma towns to explore her African American and Creek Indian heritage. Now in her career as a historian, author and professor at Tufts University, Field also has taken on the role of chief historian for 10 Million Names.

Technology, including the use of artificial intelligence programs, is allowing project investigators to do quicker, more efficient searches for information. Field says that can happen by identifying the location of plantation ledgers, advertisements, and receipts from auctions. “Particularly, there's been a lot of advancements made in optical character recognition, which allows researchers to identify names and handwritten records,” Field says.

Prior to this, a researcher had to find the document, transcribe the information, and then pivot to another database to go deeper. But with the development of other genealogical data sets such as Enslaved.org, locating individuals and making connections becomes much easier. “So that means we can move closer to that 10 million much more quickly than we would have been able to even a decade ago,” Field says. Also, the collection at the Library of Congress, “Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938” has yielded important clues from the estimated 2,300 people interviewed during that project.

Though identifying 10 million people who were never meant to be known as human beings may sound like a staggering task, the people behind the initiative believe it’s a totally attainable goal—even amidst all the current cultural and ideological turmoil in American society. That’s because, Cellini says, there are certain inalienable truths in this world.

“John Adams said that facts are stubborn things. You know, our Black brothers and sisters have always known their history and white people have always tried to prevent Black people from learning that history. What's new here is that white people are now trying to prevent other white people from learning this history.”

Cellini believes that Black Americans aren’t the only ones who want or need to know the full story. “It's white people who hunger for knowledge of that history, as well. It’s our duty to engage in determined resistance, to strike repeated blows for the truth. And nothing is more stubborn than facts.”

And like journalist Tucker, Cellini believes the search is infinitely for the benefit of the whole of society.

“The hard part isn't the finding,” Cellini says of the effort. “The hard part is the looking. But when we look, we find. And when we find, the whole world changes.”

[beardedmrbean]

NEW YORK - A 38-year-old man was stabbed to death Monday in the Bronx. 

Sources told CBS2 the man was a tenant, believed to be killed by the building super. 

The stabbing happened shortly after 7:30 p.m. at a building on East 136th Street near Willis Avenue in Mott Haven. 

Police said a 53-year-old man was taken into custody and treated for cuts on his arms.

The investigation continues into what led up to the deadly incident.