Kiana Howell (pictured left) and her cohort Makeeba Graham (pictured below) were arrested Sunday morning at New York’s JFK International Airport, when customs officials discovered more than two pounds of cocaine that had been secured in to their hair weaves, reports The Daily Caller[1]. SEE ALSO: Come Again? Wisconsin Man Arrested For Having Sex With Couch![2] The women had just arrived from Georgetown, Guyana, and according to officials, they were fidgeting and appeared uneasy as they approached the airport’s customs checkpoint. As the pair were patted down by customs officials, the officers allegedly felt bulges in their heads. When asked to remove the weave, Howell said that she could not “because she had a package that was sewn in to it.” The woman then informed the customs officials that she did not know what was in there but that it had been secured to her head and that her Guyanese boyfriend “told her to bring that package under her hair weave to the United States for him.” The y ...
WASHINGTON — Deidra Reese isn’t waiting for people to come to her to find out whether they are registered to vote. SEE ALSO: From The Desperate Files: Mitt Romney Wears ‘Brownface’ To Address Latino Voters?[1] With iPad in hand, Reese is going to community centers, homes, and churches in nine Ohio cities, looking up registrations to make sure voters have proper ID and everything else they need to cast ballots on Election Day. “We are not going to give back one single inch. We have fought too long and too hard,” said Reese, 45, coordinator of the Columbus-based Ohio Unity Coalition, an affiliate of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation. Reese is part of a cadre of Black women engaged in a revived wave of voting rights advocacy four years after the historic election of the nation’s first Black president. Provoked by voting law changes in various states, they have decided to help voters navigate the system – a fitting role, they say, given that Black women had the highest ...
