New England Sun-Times

This speech was said to have been delivered by Willie Lynch on the bank of the James River in the colony of Virginia in 1712.  Lynch was a British slave owner in the West Indies. He was invited to the colony of Virginia in 1712 to teach his methods to slave owners there. [beginning of the Willie Lynch Letter] Greetings, Gentlemen. I greet you here on the bank of the James River in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twelve. First, I shall thank you, the gentlemen of the Colony of Virginia, for bringing me here. I am here to help you solve some of your problems with slaves. Your invitation reached me on my modest plantation in the West Indies, where I have experimented with some of the newest, and still the oldest, methods for control of slaves. Ancient Rome would envy us if my program is implemented. As our boat sailed south on the James River, named for our illustrious King, whose version of the Bible we cherish, I saw enoug...

  RIVERSIDE, California – A United Parcel Service driver was arrested this afternoon on federal gun trafficking charges for allegedly stealing dozens of guns going through the shipping company’s Ontario hub and providing them to an associate who sold the weapons in underground transactions. Curtis Hays, 36, of Rancho Cucamonga, was arrested without incident by special agents with the ATF. Hays is expected to be arraigned this afternoon in United States District Court. The associate who allegedly sold some of the firearms – Dennis Dell White Jr., 35, of Moreno Valley – will be summoned to appear in federal court for an arraignment in the coming weeks. The 16-count indictment, which was filed on July 23, alleges that Hays stole a series of packages containing guns that were supposed to be delivered to Turner’s Outdoorsman in Rancho Cucamonga. The indictment also accused Hays of stealing jewelry and mobile phones that were supposed to be delivered to other retai...

Leah Cuevas (the KILLER) and Chinelle Brown (the victim)   Leah Cuevas , 42, has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of  27-year-old Chinelle Latoya Browne , a mother of four whose dismembered and decapitated body was found hidden around Long Island, New York last month, reports NBC Los Angeles. At her arraignment Thursday, the judge said Cuevas was “charged with the worst conduct a human can be charged with. According to prosecutors, Cuevas and Browne argued over rent on July 4 and again the next day. Police were called during the first incident, but the second ended with Cuevas stabbing Browne several times and dismembering her body.” Her last words, according to witnesses, were, “No, Leah!” and “I’m sorry.” [Browne's] mutilated torso was discovered in a weedy, vacant parking lot in Bay Shore early on July 8 by people going to the nearby Fire Island ferry. Prosecutors said the clothing on the torso matched the ones last se...

Atlanta — Anti-capital punishment activists are using the prolonged execution of Joseph Wood in Florence, Ariz. , Wednesday as a clarion call to end the death penalty. A federal judge who adjudicated Mr. Wood’s case has emphasized another alternative: bring back the firing squad. "Eight or ten large-caliber rifle bullets fired at close range can inflict massive damage, causing instant death every time," Alex Kozinski , chief justice of Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals, wrote in a decision that would have stayed Wood’s execution by lethal injection if the US Supreme Court hadn’t overridden that ruling. "If we, as a society, cannot stomach the splatter from an execution carried out by firing squad, then we shouldn't be carrying out executions at all,” Judge Kozinski reiterated Thursday to the Washington Examiner’s Byron York. In his earlier ruling, Kozinski said using drugs to carry out executions is "a misguided effort to mask the brutality o...

By Alan Duke , CNN (CNN) -- Actress Skye McCole Bartusiak, who played Mel Gibson's youngest daughter in "The Patriot," died Saturday at her home in Houston, her mother said Sunday. She was 21. "We lost our girl," Helen McCole Bartusiak told CNN. While investigators have not determined a cause of death, Bartusiak had been suffering from epileptic seizures in recent days, according to her mother. "She was a kind and really beautiful girl," her mother said. Bartusiak's most visible role was as the young daughter of Mel Gibson's Revolutionary War "Patriot" character in the 2000 movie. Her movie acting career began when she was just 6 in 1999 with a role in "The Cider House Rules." She played the daughter of Michael Douglas' character in "Don't Say a Word" in 2001. Her last film role was the lead in "Sick Boy," a low-budget thriller released in 2012. Bartusiak ...

The shots fired at Worldstar Hip-Hop by the Zulu Nation, and the various shots fired at radio, media and even your favorite deejays must have gotten the attention of one of Rap's largest stars. Jay-Z attended the Brooklyn Music Festival over the weekend, and was flanked by members of the Nation Of Islam's Fruit Of Islam. Jay was brought on stage to do his verse of the song "We Made It", and you could feel the fresh air through the lyrics. Jay-Z's "chase Yacub back to the cave" gave some hope that maybe Hova is ready to throw in the towel with the nonsense lyrics and give back to the Culture. July 13 Rac Nation's newly-signed Jay Electronica’s set at the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Fest this weekend — rockin his FOI uniform, which he asked to switch from last to second-to-last “as a sign of respect” to co-headliner Raekwon — with appearances from Mac Miller, J. Cole and, yes, Roc boss Jay Z himself. The Brooklyn ...

ELMHURST, Queens– Detectives say mother Nicole “Nikki” Kelly told them she killed her own baby boy because she had “reached her breaking point.” Now she is in police custody, charged with the second-degree murder of her 11-month-old son, according to affiliates WPIX. The child, Kiam Felix, Jr., was pronounced dead Sunday afternoon after Kelly, 22, brought him into the emergency room with the boy’s father, who does not live with them. Instead, Kelly and her baby boy rented a room from another woman, who also has a two year-old boy. She described the child as a happy baby. Every photo of little Kiam on Facebook shows him looking sweet and happy. Some of the photos are particularly disturbing based on information conveyed by Kelly’s housemate. The housemate told WPIX that she’d seen Kelly on Sunday afternoon with the body of her lifeless baby, just before he was taken to the hospital. Little Kiam was dressed in a completely white outfit — vest, collared shirt, necktie, pant...