Pistol Packing Nurse Saves Man Being Beaten by Gang of Attackers in Detroit
Posted: April 9, 2014 Filed under: Self Defense, Space & Aviation | Tags: Daily Mail, Deborah Hughes, Detroit, Detroit Police Department, Hughes, Steve Utash, Twitter, Utash 5 Comments
AWR Hawkins reports: On April 2, Deborah Hughes looked out her front window and saw Steve Utash on the ground being brutally beaten by a gang of men–she grabbed her pistol and ran to his aid.
According to the Daily Mail, Utash had stopped to check on a 10-year-old child “he had accidentally hit.”
When Utash got out of the car a gang converged on him and had beat him unconscious “by the time [Hughes] got to his side.”
This Day in History: Langston Hughes Is Born
Posted: February 1, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, History | Tags: African American, Arts, Carl Van Vechten, Harlem, Hughes, Langston Hughes, Literature, Wikimedia Commons 2 Comments
Photo: Langston Hughes photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1936 (Wikimedia Commons)
February 1, 1902: Langston Hughes Is Born
On this day in 1902, James Mercer Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri. A poet and novelist, he became known as the “Shakespeare of Harlem” during the 1920s and 1930s.
Originally from the Midwest, Hughes traveled the world and worked in a great variety of jobs. He is especially well-known for his perceptive and sympathetic portrayals of life in black America.
Learn more about Langston Hughes with Masterpiece’s Langston Hughes biography.
