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Report: Evelyn Lowery has died overnight

By Ernie Suggs

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Evelyn Lowery, the wife of civil rights leader Joseph E. Lowery, died overnight in her Atlanta home.

She was 88.

Lowery, the founder of SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. (Women’s Organizational Movement for Equality Now), suffered a stroke on Sept. 18 and had been hospitalized for a week. She returned home from the hospital on Wednesday, after doctors told the family that her condition would remain critical.

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Video Captures Kwame Kilpatrick’s Wife Being Questioned Over Cash In Office Drawer

 
By Hannington Dia

Carlita Kilpatrick

 

Months after her termination from a sports specialist position near Dallas, Carlita Kilpatrick (pictured left) is dealing with a newly released video showing investigators questioning her over several hundred dollars of cash in her office drawer, the Detroit News reports.

RELATED: Kwame Kilpatrick Found Guilty On Federal Charges

The video, released on Sept. 16th, shows two investigators entering Kilpatrick’s office, asking her if they could check her desk; she agrees. While checking the drawer, they come across the money.

“What would this represent?” one of the investigators asks Kilpatrick.

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“It is change from my overages,” she admits. The two investigators then spend the next few minutes counting exactly how much money is in the drawer. After they’ve finished, the main investigator asks her again to reconfirm.

“So you’re saying this represents overages that were not deposited when you had overages from normal business?” he inquires.

“Yes,” Kilpatrick replies. He then tells her than any extra surplus money for the company is to be reported and not kept secret. Though not a criminal offense, hiding the money goes against company policy.

“We’re going to have to report this to the city manager,” the investigator says.

Kilpatrick was fired from the position on July 10th. She’d been on an 180 day probation for failing to follow job requirements and didn’t show signs of improving. Her duties as a specialist at the Duncanville Fieldhouse, an athletic facility in Texas, included organizing sporting events and overseeing day to day operations.

She initially received the job after husband and former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (pictured right) was convicted on 24 criminal charges, including racketeering, extortion and bribery.

RELATED: Kwame Kilpatrick Dishes About Scandal In New Book

The disgraced official is facing 20-plus years in prison along with friend Bobby Ferguson. Both remain in federal prison awaiting sentencing.

Shortly after being fired, Kilpatrick also lost the lease on the family’s 5,000 sq ft home they rented for $2,600/month. The Grand Prairie property was quickly put back on the market after Carlita and her sons moved out.

While it isn’t known where they moved, the family’s church is helping them out, according to the Detroit Free Press.

According to a neighbor who lived next to the house, she never saw the family enter or maintain the property. They also left many of their belongings on the curb before leaving. “There was a lot of furniture. It was a lot of stuff there … the kind of stuff that you keep,”  Melinda Carter said.

Her name also came up during Kwame’s trial. A government witness testified that Kilpatrick received thousands of dollars in grants for a project she barely worked on. This reportedly angered state officials, who thought the money was going to assist impoverished people.

A spokesman for the family is urging people to respect their privacy.

“Let them move on,”  said Mike Paul. “For anyone who has a heart: Look, Kwame is in prison. Let this family have some peace.”

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Home » Entertainment » Michael Jackson Statue Removed From Fulham

Michael Jackson Statue Removed From Fulham

 
By The Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — The statue of Michael Jackson outside Premier League club Fulham has been hauled down.

On the orders of new owner Shad Khan, the tribute to the late “King of Pop” was removed Wednesday from outside Craven Cottage in west London.

The statue is being returned to Mohammed Al Fayed, a friend of Jackson’s who sold Fulham to Khan in July.

Khan also owns the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars. He says “our supporters’ views on the statue have been made clear.” He adds that “the removal of the statue is the right thing for Fulham.”

Jackson died after a lethal overdose of anesthetic in 2009.

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Home » News » Schools Criticized For Bans on Dreadlocks, Afros

Schools Criticized For Bans on Dreadlocks, Afros

 
By LEANNE ITALIE, Associated Press
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“Why are you so sad?” a TV reporter asked the little girl with a bright pink bow in her hair.

“Because they didn’t like my dreads,” she sobbed, wiping her tears. “I think that they should let me have my dreads.”

With those words, second-grader Tiana Parker of Tulsa, Okla., found herself, at age 7, at the center of decades of debate over standards of black beauty, cultural pride and freedom of expression.

It was no isolated incident at the predominantly black Deborah Brown Community School, which in the face of outrage in late August apologized and rescinded language banning dreadlocks, Afros, mohawks and other “faddish” hairstyles it had called unacceptable and potential health hazards.

A few weeks earlier, another charter school, the Horizon Science Academy in Lorain, Ohio, sent a draft policy home to parents that proposed a ban on “Afro-puffs and small twisted braids.” It, too, quickly apologized and withdrew the wording.

But at historically black Hampton University in Hampton, Va., the dean of the business school has defended and left in place a 12-year-old prohibition on dreadlocks and cornrows for male students in a leadership seminar for MBA candidates, saying the look is not businesslike.

Tiana’s father, barber student Terrance Parker, said he and his wife chose not to change her style and moved the straight-A student to a different public school, where she now happily sings songs about her hair with friends.

“I think it stills hurts her. But the way I teach my kids is regardless of what people say, you be yourself and you be happy with who you are and how God made you,” he said.

Tiana added: “I like my new school better.” As for the thousands of emails and phone calls of support the family has received from around the world, she said she feels “cared about.”

Deborah Brown, the school’s founder, did not return a call from The Associated Press. Jayson Bendik, dean of students at Horizon in Lorain, said in an email that “our word choice was a mistake.”

In New York City, the dress code at 16-year-old Dante de Blasio’s large public high school in Brooklyn includes no such hair restrictions. Good thing for Dante, whose large Afro is hard to miss at campaign stops and in a TV spot for his father, Bill de Blasio, who is running for mayor.

There is no central clearinghouse for local school board policies on hairstyles, or surveys indicating whether such rules are widespread. Regardless, mothers of color and black beauty experts consider the controversies business as usual.

“Our girls are always getting messages that tell them that they are not good enough, that they don’t look pretty enough, that their skin isn’t light enough, that their hair isn’t long enough, that their hair isn’t blond enough,” said Beverly Bond of the New York-based esteem-building group Black Girls Rock.

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Schools Criticized For Bans on Dreadlocks, Afros

 
By LEANNE ITALIE, Associated Press

“The public banning of our hair or anything about us that looks like we look, it feels like it’s such a step backward.”

Bond founded the organization in response to an episode in 2007 when radio host Don Imus called members of the Rutgers women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos.” He later apologized.

In Chicago, Leila Noelliste has been blogging about natural hair at Blackgirllonghair.com for about five years. She has followed the school cases closely. The 28-year-old mother with a natural hairstyle and two daughters who also wear their hair that way said it is a touchy issue among African-Americans and others.

“This is the way the hair grows out of my head, yet it’s even shocking in some black communities, because we’ve kind of been told culturally that to be acceptable and to make other people kind of comfortable with the way that we look, we should straighten our hair, whether through heat or chemicals,” she said. “So whether we’re in non-black communities or black communities, with our natural hair, we stand out. It evokes a lot of reaction.”

Particularly painful, said Noelliste and others, is the notion that natural styles are not hygienic.

“Historically natural hair has been viewed as dirty, unclean, unkempt, messy,” she said. “An older black generation, there’s this idea of African-American exceptionalism, that the way for us to get ahead is to work twice as hard as any white person and to prove that if we just work hard and we look presentable we’ll get ahead, and that’s very entrenched. My generation, we’re saying that that’s not fair. We should be able to show up as we are and based on our individual merit and effort be judged on that.”

Ryan Kiesel, executive director of the Oklahoma chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, said legal rulings on hair and other issues pertaining to school dress codes have been fairly clear.

“For decades now, Supreme Court precedent has reaffirmed that clothing, including hairstyle, is part of a student’s speech, and if you’re going to interfere with that, then the school district has to make some findings beforehand demonstrating that there is an immediate threat to the academic environment,” he said. “That wasn’t the case here and in most dress-code cases.”

Denene Millner in Atlanta created a blog, Mybrownbaby.com, for other African-American moms and also followed the school hair controversies. She went natural nearly 14 years ago for the sake of her daughters, now 11 and 14.

“I didn’t want them to grow up with the same idea that I had when I was little, that there was something wrong with the way that my hair grew out of my head,” said Millner, 45. “It’s something that we’ve grappled with for a very, very long time. There’s a whole lot of assumptions made about you that may not necessarily be true: that you’re political, that you’re Afro-centric, that you might be vegetarian, that you’re kind of a hipster.”

She said watching Tiana sob on camera “about these grown-ups, black folks, who are supposed to not just educate her but show her how to love herself, it tore my heart to shreds.”

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  • Tyler Perry Finds Even More Success on OWN

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    Tyler Perry must be listening to a lot of P. Diddy lately because he won’t stop. His newest OWN show imported from TBS, “For Better For Worse,” earned The Oprah Winfrey Network its highest Wednesday night ratings ever. By it’s second episode (the first two aired back to back) over 1.6 millon people were watching.

    “Thank you to the people,” Perry said on the Tom Joyner Morning Show today. “The people turnin’ it out, watching it. I’m so grateful. ‘For Better or Worse’ is the last show that was on TBS that was coming over. But so many people want to see ‘House of Payne.’ People still love that show, as do I, so we’re trying to figure out what to do with that right now. “

    Perry’s deal with TBS that originally aired both shows and “Meet the Browns,” allowed him a lot of leeway and the chance for lengthy broadcast runs. Obviously, there are still people who want to experience to see those characters even after their success on TBS.

    “TBS/Turner that whole thing was such a great experience for me,” Perry says. “It taught me a lot and I think it left both of us for the better.” OWN is obviously better as well for the partnership with Perry. His original shows “Love Thy Neighbor” and “The Haves and the Have Nots” are doing great as well. Both are returning for second seasons on OWN.

    “I could have not had any success over there if Oprah had not done what she’s done. She’s done a great job putting things in place, getting the right team. Once she left her show and starting getting in there herself all of hat had turned around even before I got there.”

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