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Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Yahoo
Grandmother of murder victim urges end to gun violence after tragic shooting
The grandmother of a murder victim is speaking out against gun violence after her grandson was killed in northwest Charlotte Monday night. She spoke with Channel 9's Hunter Saenz about the final memory she shared with him. CMPD: Homicide under investigation in northwest Charlotte Ernestine Steele said the day before her grandson Alvin Steele's death, he dropped by her house with a card for Mother's Day. She said it was a memory she now has to cherish and hold onto dearly. 'As a person, Alvin was loving. He loved animals, and he loved people. He was very loving, always respectful,' Ernestine said. On May 12, Alvin's life came to a tragic end at a motel on Lucky Penny Street. According to court documents, his girlfriend found him shot multiple times in his room, covered by a sheet and pillow. Investigators said Tyler Minor, who was staying with the Alvin, called 911 and said he shot his friend. Minor's father then tried to turn him in, but he jumped out of his car on the way to the police station. He was arrested on Wednesday and charged with murder. Police said the incident was sparked because of a girl. However, Alvin's grandmother said she couldn't make sense of this. 'Just put the guns down, you know. If we have grievances, try to talk. Try to go to somebody, but we've got to put the guns down. I mean, we're killing everybody,' said Ernestine. Ernestine said Alvin leaves behind two young daughters. Meanwhile, the suspect in this case was given no bond on Thursday after facing a judge. VIDEO: Homicide under investigation in northwest Charlotte
San Francisco Chronicle
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
A case for ‘Crumbs From the Table of Joy' as a great American play
History doesn't happen in great sea changes above our heads. It's whether one Black family decides to migrate north. It's which stranger you let talk to you on the train. And in 'Crumbs From the Table of Joy,' it's which ideas and experiences a girl hears over the breakfast table in her humble Brooklyn apartment — and how they inflect what she sees as possible for herself. Lynn Nottage's 1995 play about a postwar Great Migration family, whose Aurora Theatre Company production opened Thursday, May 1, could have been written today. Grieving widower Godfrey (David Everett Moore) is in thrall to a charlatan spiritualist, making excuses whenever his great leader doesn't deliver on promises. Communist Party footsoldier Aunt Lily Ann (Asia Nicole Jackson), taking it upon herself to move in with her brother-in-law and take care of his girls, keeps urging the family to unshackle themselves from servile capitalist ideology. As for her own joblessness, she says, 'Nobody wants to hire a smart colored woman.' And when daughters Ernestine (Anna Marie Sharpe) and Ermina (Jamella Cross) suddenly get a new stepmother in Gerte (Carrie Paff), a white German expat scarred by wartime privation and chaos, the conversations between her and Lily Ann feel startlingly 2025. They play the oppression olympics. They debate Gerte's assertion that 'When I see you I see no color' and just how much the world will allow any person of color to achieve — professionally, romantically. But it's never philosophical or abstract; it's grounded in romantic jealousy and insecurity that tick like a time bomb. Elizabeth Carter's production can feel a little stagey and clumsy sometimes. Some monologues that are supposed to be devastating have all the humanity of a foghorn, and light cues practically galumph in and out. But watch Sharpe and Cross as the two sisters. In physical comedy, Cross — one of the Bay Area's rising stars — has the precision of a gymnast or a figure skater. Slithering away from the singeing clutches of Lily Ann's hot iron comb, she makes the inanimate object into an enemy snake; each fresh crackle of burning hair is an escalating battle in that war known to every child: between common sense and adults' incomprehensible whims. And Sharpe makes Ernestine the poetic, impressionable sort who gulps down experience with her eyes and lets it suffuse her being. As the play's narrator, she gives Nottage's intricate, redolent text an easy buoyancy, trotting out lines like 'I want to go someplace where folks don't come home sullied by anger' with a winsome earnestness that makes the highfalutin natural. If there's an old-fashioned discursiveness to the script — it's the kind of play that feels like it ends three times over — Nottage constructs such a multilayered, expansive world that she earns the right to linger on the theatrical equivalent of sustains and fermatas. Here, the microcosm and the macrocosm are the same: The question of whether social change comes from revolution or everyday individual choices somehow equates to one girl's choice between following the humdrum path her father has paved for her or imagining something more.
Yahoo
15-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Ernestine Hall, Youngstown, Ohio
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (MyValleyTributes) – Mrs. Ernestine Hall, 90, formerly of Youngstown, Ohio transitioned peacefully to her heavenly mansion on Wednesday, April 2, 2025 surrounded by her loving family at the Avalon Health and Rehabilitation Center in Newnan, Georgia We celebrate the beautiful life of Ernestine Hall with hearts full of love and gratitude, her spirit touched everyone she met. Mrs. Hall was born August 21, 1934 in Asheville, North Carolina to Ernest and Mable Toland. She spent most of her life in Youngstown, Ohio and later moved to Atlanta where she enjoyed her golden years. Find obituaries from your high school She was a devoted mother to her children (Marlene, Denise (John) ,Thomas, Jr., Pamela (Tony), Stan, Tonie, step-daughters, Sepheia and Indeia), special daughters (Vickie, Gail, and Pam); a proud grandmother of the following,(Cory, Ashley, Joshua, Keshia, Lamont, Marquita, Monica, Monique, Sterling, Asia, Aamira, Tahirah, Nnenia, Saleemah, Nura, and Nafia); a cherished great-grandmother, auntie, and friend to many, including a special friend in Rodgers. She had a special gift for making each person feel like the center of her world. Whether you were across the kitchen table or across the country, she remembered the little things, a favorite dish, a childhood story, a personal victory, she made sure you felt deeply seen and loved. Ernestine moved to the Youngstown area in 1950 and became a charter member of the New Vision Baptist Church. She was employed for 25 years as an operating room technician and surgical technician, retiring in 1991. She also worked as a school bus aide at Leonard Kirk, always sharing her natural warmth and care with everything she did. It was in her roles as matriarch, friend, and guiding light that she truly shined. While at New Vision, she served on the Deaconess Board, member and past president of the Senior Usher Board, assistant treasurer of the church, as well as member and treasurer of the Women's Mission. She also worked with the Mahoning County Transportation Department for seven years, retiring in 1998. Ernestine enjoyed crocheting, working on the 'Big Book' word search puzzles, and was a lover of gospel music. Her kitchen was filled with love, flavor, and impromptu cooking lessons Her garden bloomed with care; and her faith never wavered. She often said, 'Don't worry about it, pray about it and let God do His work.' She was the life of every party. If Ms. Ernestine wasn't feeding you, she was surely dancing, smiling, and lifting others up. Her remedies could fix any ailment, and her presence was a balm to the soul. When you were with her, you felt like 'Grandma's baby,' no matter your age. To know her was to know unconditional love, deep faith, and a joy that radiated from her very being. If her life had a soundtrack, it would be 'Grandma's Hands' – tender, strong, and full of grace. Ernestine will be remembered as a woman who loved God and her family above all else. Her legacy lives on in every recipe passed down, every prayer spoken, and every dance shared in her memory. Ernestine Hall was preceded in death by her parents and loving husband of 56 years (Thomas Cellar 'TC' Hall). Their laughter, dancing, and travels were the heartbeat of their enduring love story. She was also preceded by her two sisters (Johnnie Mae Jackson and Mozella Toland-Vinson) and grandsons (Terrance and Shon Rankin). Arrangements are being handled by L.E. Black, Phillips & Holden Funeral Home. To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Ernestine Hall, please visit our floral store. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
