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Charges boost stripper case, lawyer says
Indictment supports idea that mayor stalled efforts to find her killer, family's attorney says.
Paul Egan / The Detroit News
The lawyer representing the family of slain exotic dancer Tamara Greene says Monday's criminal charges against Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff bolster the credibility of his case.
Norman Yatooma said it is significant that obstruction of justice charges against Kilpatrick and Christine Beatty relate to allegations that they fired former Deputy Police Chief Gary Brown to hamper Brown's criminal investigations related to the mayor and his police bodyguards. Among the allegations Brown was looking into was a rumored party with strippers at the Manoogian Mansion, the mayor's official residence. (Read More)
Old Black Hospital could become History Showcase
Oralandar Brand-Williams / The Detroit News
DETROIT -- A group of black doctors hopes to turn the old Dunbar Hospital into a showcase museum this year.
Opened in 1918, Dunbar is one of the city's first black-owned hospitals. It was housed in a three-story Victorian home on the city's eastside.
Andre Lee, a member of the Detroit Medical Society, said renovating the old mansion into a medical museum will give the public an opportunity to learn more about the contribution blacks made to the medical profession.
"It's just been sitting here so we thought we could fix it up and open it up for tours and for organizations to meet in," said Lee, who is spearheading the renovation project.
The hospital was opened by black physicians denied practicing privileges at white-owned hospitals in the city, in an era in the country's history when few blacks were admitted to white-owned hospitals. Closed in 1926, the red-brick mansion on Frederick Avenue, is located in the shadows of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.The Detroit Medical Society, an organization of African-American doctors in Metro Detroit, has owned the house for 80 years. Physicians who were members of the society founded Dunbar Hospital.(Read More)
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