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Neil Kelly Memorial 2007 Scholarship Award winners (from left to right) Ashley Taylor, Benson; Angel Ajtum-Sanchez, Roosevelt; Suada Ibrahim, Jefferson; and Huyen T. Hoang, Madison, stand with Al Jubitz, keynote speaker at the scholarship awards luncheon, held May 11. All of the students are going on to college in the fall of this year.

ATLANTA, Ga. — Yolanda King, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s eldest child who pursued her father's dream of racial harmony through drama and motivational speaking, collapsed and died. She was 51.
King died late Tuesday in Santa Monica, Calif., said Steve Klein, a spokesman for the King Center. The family did not know the cause of death, but relatives think it might have been a heart problem, he said.
"She was an actress, author, producer, advocate for peace and nonviolence, who was known and loved for her motivational and inspirational contributions to society," the King family said in a statement.

Stacey Triplett was 28 years old when her doctor found fibroid tumors in her uterus. AnnMarie Rainford was 32.
Both women faced the possibility of having a hysterectomy in the prime of their lives.
"When I was diagnosed, they told me my tumor was the size of an orange," says Rainford. "I was asymptomatic and unsure about my plans for childbearing, so I decided to wait and see."
Triplett also waited. Every six months, for 12 years, Triplett visited her gynecologist for regular ultrasounds. The tumors continued to grow, but Triplett wanted to save her uterus.

Carmen Butcher, a family intervention specialist with the Touchstone program, recently helped a…

Grammy award winning singer Fergie autographs a poster for Franklin High School student Mizan Demissie on May 8. Demissie was one of the trend-setting students from Franklin who helped win a free concert by Fergie after the high school was named "most glamorous school" in a Verizon Wireless contest open to high schools throughout the West Coast. Fergie performed in Franklin's gymnasium May 8.

King County NAACP President James Bible is calling for the resignation of Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske and the dismissal of two Seattle police officers following an investigation exonerating the officers of abusing and planting evidence on a suspected drug dealer.
"We are concerned that the Office of Professional Accountability and it's exoneration of these officers at the hand of the chief is an empty, hollow and weak system which doesn't afford anyone justice in this city," Bible said.

Local Microsoft employee Felicia Guity was recently honored by EBONY magazine at the eighth annual EBONY Outstanding Women in Marketing and Communications Awards Luncheon.
EBONY President and CEO Linda Johnson Rice hosted the event May 3 in New York City, and about 1,000 people attended the red carpet event.
Guity travels the world for Microsoft and was in Germany working when she heard she would be honored.
"I was speechless, I was just sort of paralyzed for the first 24 hours," Guity said. "EBONY thinks I'm worthy of an honor in marketing. I'm humbled and honored to be recognized in this way."

LITTLE ROCK -- Fifty years after nine Black teenagers advanced the civil rights movement with the integration of Little Rock Central High School, the same principles apply in efforts to attain social justice, members of the Little Rock Nine said Saturday.
A good education, family support, love, determination, and a belief in oneself are the essentials that got them through those years of threats, jeers, and physical harassment from white segregationists, Little Rock Nine members attending an NAACP education summit told an audience at the school.
Elizabeth Eckford, who alone braved a jeering crowd on her first attempt to enter the school, urged young people to stand up to others who make cruel and ignorant remarks. And she reminded her mostly black audience members to treat themselves with respect.