September/October 2018
Justice for Laquan Your Opinion Matters
Delaware State three years.
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“The grant funding will enable us to address issues on the Loockerman exterior that will protect the integrity of the building’s interior,” Mr. Bartlett said. “That will include the replacement of existing windows as well as repairs to the roof and the damaged masonry.”
DSU is matching the grant
funding, making it a $1 million investment in the historic building.
Mr. Bartlett credited Dr. Melissa
Harrington, assistant vice president for research, with being a driving force in getting the University to apply for the grant.
BY REV. JESSE L. JACKSON, SR CHICAGO – As I sat in
Courtroom 500 Wednesday afternoon, listening to the Cook County medical examiner explain the science of homicide, I was struck by
the brutal intentionality and
intensity of the slaying of Laquan McDonald, the 17-year-old victim of the ugliest lynching since Emmett Till.
Arunkumar
The testimony of Dr. Ponni was chilling as she
described – shot-by-shot – the deadly damage done by the 16 bullets Officer Jason Van Dyke fired into Laquan.
Color autopsy photos of the
teen’s ravaged body and other photos of the mangled copper-jacket bullets that killed him, were displayed on a big screen television monitor. The images were too painful to watch for more than a few seconds.
The teenager was hit several
times in the back of his body. Bullets tore through his muscles,
his, his arms, his back, shattered his bones. Bullet fragments were removed mouth.
from The his teeth and prosecutor asked Dr.
Arunkumar if there were “16 separate and distinctive gunshot wounds to Laquan McDonald?”
“Yes,” she replied. How many total wounds? When all the holes – entry
and exit – are added up, the doctor said, “it comes to 24 holes.”
It was heartbreaking and
infuriating to sit through. But I will return Thursday morning to continue supporting Laquan’s family and to see if a poor black teenager – whose slaughter was captured on video and broadcast around the world – can receive a measure of justice in an American courtroom.
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“She raised a lot of awareness about the building’s repair needs and was instrumental in moving this forward,” he said.
Mr. Bartlett said the University previously applied several
unsuccessfully times for preservation
funding for Loockerman Hall. He added that Dr. Vita Pickrum, vice president of Institutional Advancement, provided him with previous grant proposal submissions that helped him fine tune his proposal.
Loockerman Hall was originally
built as a mansion in the 1700s for the Loockerman family, who were slave owners and a major land owner in Kent County. The property was
in the Loockerman’s name until the early 1800s. That land then changed ownership eight times before 1891.
Upon the purchase of the
property in 1891 by the Board of Trustees of the then-Delaware College for Colored Students, the fledging school converted the former mansion into the Main College Building. In active use until about 1960, the building was used over the years for classes, food preparation and dining, as well as a residential facility.
After a period of inactivity,
restoration work was done on Loockerman Hall in the mid-1980s and in 1993. The historic building is now used for special events.
The National Park Service
notes the following disclaimer that the grant is “…. partially funded
Black Colleges and Universities program
by the of
the
Historically Historic
Preservation Fund, National Park Service, Department of the Interior. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommenda- tions expressed in this material do not constitute endorsement or necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Interior or U.S. Government.”
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