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I Judge bars Kelly from L.A. video shoot CHICAGO (AP) - R&B singer R. Kelly, free on bond since he was indicted on 21 child pornography charges, can not travel to Los Angeles for a July music video shoot, a judge ruled last week. PA/sl* Pnnnftt fii'lna \/1 noonl Michael Gaughan said Kelly's attor neys presented no argument why the Grammy-winner couldn't produce his video with technology and cre ative resources in the Chicago area, where he is required to stay as part of his bond. Gaughan did allow Kelly, whose first name is Robert, to travel later this month to Los Angeles for a Black Entertainment Television R Kelly awards show and to Dallas for a charity concert for the families of soldiers injured or killed in the Iraq war. Gaughan said barring Kelly from the awards show or the charity concert would "do more harm than good." Kelly, 36. hasn't been allowed to leave without a judge's permission since he was indicted June 5. 2002, after a video tape surfaced purportedly showing him having sex with an underage girl. Kelly has denied the charges. A Kelly trip request last month prompted complaints by prosecutors, who have consistently opposed his travel. Kelly was granted his request to travel to New York to perform a concert, but prosecutors later discovered he was never listed as a performer. Ed Genson. Kelly's attorney, said barring Kelly from trav el limited his ability to make a living. No trial date has been set for the Illinois pornografthy indictment. If convicted. Kelly could face 15 years in prison and a $100,000 fine. Depositions taken in AKA drowning suit LOS ANGELES (NNPA) - Depositions are under way in a lawsuit filed against Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (AKA) by the family of Kristin High, one of two women who drowned at a Playa Del Rey beach during alleged hazing activities last year. Sam High and Patricia Strong-Fargas, High's parents, and her fiancee, Holman Authurs, on behalf of High's and Authurs' son, Skyler, filed a $100 million wrongful death lawsuit against the organization and the members and pledges present when she died in September. Angela Reddock, an attorney with the firm Collins, Mesereau. Reddock and Yu, LLP, representing High's family, said potential witnesses in the case are being interviewed by attorneys for the defendants and plaintiffs. Next month. Reddock said, she will be in Chicago taking depositions from AKA's national officers. This month, attorneys for High's family will be taking depositions from "big sisters" who were present during the alleged hazing and named in the suit. According to the lawsuit. High was blindfolded and then driven to the beach where she was led into the ocean with her hands tied. The lawsuit calls this activity a "right of passage ritual" that was facilitated by High's "assigned...big sister," one of the sorority members. The women were students at California State University-LA. Initially, police said there was no hazing involved, but according to the county coroner's autopsy report, released by the plaintiff's attorneys, "the manner of death could not be determined." Police are still investigating the matter. The national AKA has suspended all pledging at the undergraduate level until this fall. Black students are benefiting from generosity of late funny man Flip Wilson NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) - Black journalism majors at Rutgers University will soon benefit from the gen erosity of a late New Jersey-born comedian who gained fame ^ by dressing in drag before most of the school's students were born. The first Flip Wilson scholarship will be selected next spring, ine decision will be based in part on a 500-word essay that focuses on some aspect of Wilson's work and its impact on television or comedy, said John Pavlik, chairman of the journal ism and media studies department at Rutgers' New Brunswick campus. The $23,500 scholarship, which can be used to pay for tuition, fees, room and board and books, will be one of the state university's highest paying undergraduate scholarships Wilton for an individual student. Eligible students must be black, enrolled at Rutgers full time as a junior or senior, and major in journalism or media studies. They also must show a financial need and have a grade point average of at least 3.0. Wilson, who died of liyer cancer in 1998, did not have a journalism background. However, his friend and former pub licist Kathleen Fearn-Banks helped convince him that it was a field where his money could make an impact on the black community after his death. Wilson then agreed to put a clause in his will that provid ed funding for annual scholarships at Rutgers and other schools across the nation. Scholarships also will be set up at the University of Wash ington. Wayne State University in Detroit, California State University-Northridge and Howard University in Washington. The Chronicle (USPS 067-910) was established by Ernest H. Pitt and Ndubisi Egemonye in 1974 and is published every Thursday by Winston-Salem Chronicle Publishing Co. Inc., 617 N. Liberty Street, Winston-Salem, NC 27101. Peri odicals postage paid at Winston-Salem, N.C. Annual sub scription price is $30.72. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: The Chronicle, P.O. Box 1636 Winston-Salem, NC 27102-1636 Mom says she was concerned about son before stroke O Doctors say legendary crooner is showing signs of improvement BY NEKESA ML'MBI MOODY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK - In the days before he suffered a stroke, Luther Vandross couldn't stop overeating, according to his mother. In an interview with The Associated Press, Mary Van dross also blamed her son's hec tic schedule for his April 16 stroke. "He just worked himself to where he is right now," said Mrs. Vandross, 80. Vandross has been semicon scious since suffering a stroke in his Manhattan home. He had been putting the finishing touch es on his new album, "Dance With My Father," which hit stores last week. Vandross' fluctuations in weight have become famous over the years. "He had regained his weight back, and that of course really bothered me tremendously, because I knew how hard he was struggling not to gain the weight," said Mrs. Vandross. "And yet he would eat uncon trollably." A few days before his stroke, Vandross, 52, visited his mother in her Philadelphia home. Although the visit was a good one, she worried about him because he was "eating everything in sight." "I asked him, 'Are you upset about something?' He said, i don't know, but ... when you go to your mama's house, you're supposed to eat,'" she said. One time, Mrs. Van it r o s s said, "I g o t annoyed, and I asked him, Mary Vandrots vvny you do this to yourself again?' And he said, 'I don't drink. I've never drank, I've never smoked, I've never done drugs.' "He said, 'Mama. I just don't know what to do any more.'" She visits him in the hospital often. If she is not there, anoth er relative or friend is by his bedside. During the day, he is shown photos of family and friends, and someone reads him the get File Photo A sfimmed-down Luther Vandross performs three years ago. well cards and e-mails that have been pouring in. He also hears music by his favorite singers - Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross and Dionne Warwick. His background singers have even come in to perform for him, said Max S/adek, his per sonal assistant. Those closest to him say his condition has improved. Earlier on. he contracted pneumonia and needed a tracheotomy to help him breathe. But now, he has begun mouthing words, even trying to eat a bit of an orange. See Vandross on A10 L.A. honors former POW Shoshana Johnson BY ROBERT JABLON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES Shoshana Johnson, who was wounded and held prisoner in Iraq, was honored Friday as a war hero and a role model to blacks, women and all Ameri cans. "Thank you, thank you, thank you," the 30-year-old Army cook told a cheering crowd of about 100 people who filled the First Uni(ed Christian Church in South Los Angeles, where Johnson's aunt and other relatives wor ship. She urged her well-wishers to continue praying for U.S. soldiers still in Iraq, including a cousin in Baghdad. Johnson and other mem bers of the 507th Maintenance Company were captured in a March 23 ambush near Nasiriyah in which nine sol diers died. Johnson, who was shot in the ankles, was res cued three weeks later, along . with five others. "1 don't consider myself a hero. I consider myself a sur vivor," she told reporters before the ceremonies. "And the heroes to me are the ones that gave their lives that day, my comrades, and the Marines that took a chance and found us and pulled us out and brought us home. Those are my heroes." Johnson declined to dis cuss her captivity but said she feels fine physically. She has another year to go in the Army and has not decided whether she'll re-enlist. She called the attention she has been showered with confusing but "wonderful." Although her home is in El Paso, Texas, Johnson's large and close Panamanian-Ameri can family includes relatives in Los Angeles and suburban Lancaster. A yellow ribbon decorated a palm tree outside the store front church that her Los Angeles relatives attend. i : ~~ ~ ' Inside, some well-wishers wore white ribbons or waved flags proclaiming in red let ters "She's free!" 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