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Family says Coretta Scott King improving
ATLANTA (APt - Coretta Scott King is slowly recovering
from a stroke that had left her unable to walk and barely able to
speak, and she has been singing with a speech therapist, her
daughter said Sunday.
"It's not in the soprano voice that she
has," Bernice King said of her mother, a
trained classical singer. "But it's in a voice
that's good to hear."
Doctors say the 78-year-old widow of
civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
suffered a stroke last week that left her
weakened on the right side of her body and
mostly unable to speak.
At a prayer vigil at The King Center,
Bernice King said her mother was able to
K"'g lift her right leg Sunday.
About 400 people attended the vigil,
including Christine King Farris, the sister of Martin Luther King
Jr., and civil rights activist and comedian Dick Gregory.
The Rev. Joseph Roberts, senior pastor at Atlanta's Ebenezer
Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr. preached, noted
Coretta Scott King's courage in the days after her husband was
assassinated.
"That kind of person can never be put down," he said. "We
know the same spirit that carried her through the moments of sor
row ... is available to her even now."
Dr. Maggie Mermin. King's personal- physician, said she is
expected to remain at Atlanta's Piedmont Hospital for another
week or so.
Crenshaw loses its accreditation
LOS ANGELES (NNPA/ Wave Newspapers) - Crenshaw
High School - the school in the Los Angeles Unified School Dis
trict with the greatest number of African-American students - has
lost its accreditation, and officials are scrambling to determine
what effect such a loss will have on the value of the school's diplo
mas.
The Accrediting Commission for Schools of the Western Asso
ciation of Schools and Colleges denied accreditation for the school
based on the reports of two evaluation visits to the sfhool by
accrediting teams within a two-year period.
The commission also expressed concern about Crenshaw's
"capacity to address other critical areas for follow-up through a
single schoolwide action plan that has integrated all initiatives."
Sharon Curry. Local District % superintendent with oversight
over Crenshaw, took a pounding from the community and Coun
cilman Bernard Parks when she transferred four of Crenshaw's
five top administrators out of the school this summer.
"We've been very aware of the deficiencies at the school and
its potential accreditation challenges," Curry said.
Curry said she is exploring an appeal of. the accreditation
denial.
Morial's uncle pleads not guilty on
embezzlement charges in federal court
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The parade of figures from the era of
former New Orleans Mayor Marc Mortal hauled up on corruption
charges continued Friday, as the ex-mayor's uncle pleaded not guilty
to embezzlement in federal court.
The summer has seen a steady stream of
Morial-era officials, businessmen and associ
ates at the downtown courthouse here, with
the government stepping up a campaign to
expose what it depicts as systematic wrong
doing at city hall in the 1990s.
Friday, it was the turn of Glenn Haydel,
brother of Mortal's mother. Sybil. Tall and
distinguished-looking in a dark suit, he is
accused of steering $550j(XX) from the city's
perennially cash-strapped public transport
system, the Regional Transit Authority, to his . .
own management company, then putting a or,?
$350j000 chunk of that sum into his own per
sonal bank account.
Standing before U.S. Magistrate Louis Moore here. Haydel said
firmly. "I plead not guilty." He faces up to 25 years on three counts of
wire fraud, theft and money laundering.
Long the subject of questioning over the highly lucrative contract
his company received for. purportedly, running the city's buses and
streetcars. Haydel is fingered in the indictment only for a single trans
action that benefited him less than his deal with the RTA. Under that
deal, his company got a minimum $300, (XX) "base management fee."
Haydel himself got about $45j000 a month in the year 2000.
He offered no comment as he stepped into an elevator at the court
house here with one of his lawyers, but he has previously, through a
lawyer, denied any wrongdoing.
Longtime Urban League head dies
NEW ORLEANS (J$P> - Clarence L. Barney, the first black to
serve as chairman of the Louisiana State University board of super
visors. has died at the age of 7(f.
Barney, who died last Thursday at a hospital of pulmonary fibro
sis. was aiwMbe longtime head of the Urban League of Greater Neat.
Orleans and served on the Superdome Commission.
He was bom in New Orleans and lived in Paulina and later east
em New Orleans for many years. In recent years, he was president of
C. Lyle Barney Consulting Inc.
Barney graduated from Southern University in Baton Rouge and
served in the Army. After working as a teacher and a football coach
in Vacherie. Barney joined the Urban League in 1964 as director of
community service and rose to the organization's top post in 1967.
Aside from a year of leave to complete a master's degree in
social work at Tulane University, he was head of the New Orleans
chapter of the Urban League until his retirement in 1996.
In 1969, the Orleans Parish School Board appointed Barney to
study racial disturbances in high schools. About the same time, he
worked with the Social Apostolate to integrate Orleans Parish
parochial schools.
Survivors include his wife. Marie Porter Barney; two sons; and a
brother.
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PET A protesters evoke slavery on signs used to protest outside of the Toronto Rameses Shrine Circus at East York Town Cen
tre in July.
PETA 'slavery' campaign halted
Many found comparison between treatment of animals, blacks offensive
BY AMEC1A TAYLOR
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WASHINGTON - The
scenes are graphic. The charred
body of a black man is juxta
posed with a burning chicken.
A shackled black leg is shown
next to the leg of a chained ele
phant. A woman is branded
next to a panel of a chicken get
ting branded.
The message is unmistak
able: Animals are suffering the
same fate as African-American
slaves.
That's the point of a contro
versial campaign by the People
for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals (PETA). The online
exhibit has beefl placed on hold
amid a flurry of protests.
The central question in the ?
emotional debate
is: Do animals
deserve the same
respect and rights
as black people?
To William H.
Horton, associate
professor of histo
ry and philosophy,
Grambling State
University in
Louisiana, the
answer is an
emphatic no.
"When you compare slav
ery to animals, it sends a nega
tive message," he explained.
It's' not what you say, it's what
Gregory
you don't say that's communi
cated. In essence, you're saying
that slaves and animals
are equivalent.
Dawn Carr, director
of special projects for
PETA, defends the
online exhibit.
"Animal Liberation
project is about many
cruelties: slavery, child
labor, oppression of
women and Native
Americans," she said.
But some see that as
a stretch.
"NAACP is opposed to ani
mal cruelty, but valuing chick
ens over people is not a proper
comparison," said John C.
White, director of communica
tions for the NAACP. "PETA
shows that it is willing to
exploit racism to advance its
cause. Is PETA saying that as
long as animals are butchered
for meat, racists should contin
ue lynching black people?"
PETA officials reject the
charge that it is exploiting
racism and says the idea for the
campaign came from an unlike
ly source - Dick Gregory. The
black comedian serves on the
board of PETA and gave a
knowing grin when asked
whether this was his idea.
Regardless of who came up
with the idea, it's still a bad
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Rappers tell youngsters to get their money right
BY BETSY TAYLOR
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Draw
ing on some high-wattage star
power, the Hip-Hop Summit
rolls into town on Saturday,
with the city's famed rappers
helping spread a message
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Hometown rappers Nelly,
Chingy and J-Kwon will join
music and fashion mogul Rus
sell Simmons and financial
experts for the event.
They'll talk to young peo
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it scores, car and home owner
ship, asset management and
entrepreneurship.
The Hip-Hop Summit
Action Network began in
2001 as a nonprofit coalition
of artists and leaders who
believed hip-hop music and
culture could serve as an
influential agent for social
change.
The network addresses
quality of life issues, from
improved public education to
reform of the criminal justice
system. Last year, summits
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were held around the nation,
including St. Louis, to encour
age young people to register
and vote.
This year's program is
called "Get Your Money
Right."
"We learned a lot of young
people were ruining their
credit by age 20," said Ben
jamin Chavis, president and
chief executive of the hip-hop
network and former president
of the National Association
for the Advancement of Col
ored People.
The summit aims to teach
people aged 18 to 35 money
lessons, how to plan now to
reach future financial goals.
"The artists themselves
talk to young people about
their own financial journey
toward empowerment,"
Chavis said.
Many of the hip-hop stars
speak about making smart
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