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May 2008
Send your best wishes to the King baby
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Yolanda Reneé King — first grandchild of the late Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King — was born at Northside Hospital in Atlanta at 6:47 a.m. Sunday, May 25, 2008.
Yolanda, who weighed 7 pounds, 5 ounces at birth, is the daughter of Martin Luther King III and his wife Arndrea Waters King. Mother and daughter are doing fine, a family spokesman said.
Express your good wishes to the King family.
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Roswell paper takes heat on Obama photo
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Roswell Beacon is taking heat over a cover photograph that shows Sen. Barack Obama in a rifle’s cross hairs.
The photograph, published May 15, runs with an article about how law enforcement agencies were dealing with the rise in threats against Obama by white supremacist groups, some of whom are apparently based around North Fulton.
Officials at the free weekly defend the photograph, but it’s triggered numerous complaints.
Was the cover appropriate given the topic or too incendiary?
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R. Kelly trial begins in Chicago
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
R. Kelly faces up to 15 years in prison if a Chicago jury finds the R&B superstar guilty on child pornography charges.
Opening arguments began today after numerous trial delays.Read more here.
Kelly denies that he’s the man in a videotape having sex with an underage girl. Now, 23, the woman, whom prosecutors say was a minor at the time of taping, denies she’s the girl in the footage, which surfaced in 2002. Defense attorneys may also contend the girl, whoever she was, wasn’t a minor at all. The now infamous tape was reportedly made between Jan. 1, 1998 and Nov. 1, 2000.
The Grammy-winning Kelly’s hits include “Bump N’ Grind” and “I Believe I Can Fly.”
What effect will this have on his career? Your thoughts about the case?
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Protests planned for tavern that sells controversial T-shirts
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Controversy is brewing in Marietta where a local tavern owner is selling T-shirts that feature a cartoon chimp, “Curious George” peeling a banana, with the words “Obama in ‘08” written underneath.
Mulligan’s Bar and Grill owner Mike Norman defends his actions and calls the T-shirts “cute.” But critics say they’re offensive and racist, according to an article in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
“It’s time to put an end to this,” said Rich Pellegrino, a Mableton resident and director of the Cobb-Cherokee Immigrant Alliance. “There’s no place for these views, not in this day and age,” he said.
Several groups plan to protest the T-shirts this afternoon in front of the bar located down the street from the Big Chicken.
Is this a matter of free speech or is the shirt racially motivated?
What are your thoughts?
