The civil rights organization will do the same this summer for the “N” word, the Rev. Wendell Anthony said Sunday.

Anthony, president of the civil rights organization’s Detroit branch, said members and supporters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will conduct services and a “eulogy” for the racial slur. The mock funeral will be held during the NAACP national convention July 7-12 in Detroit, he said.

“We are committed to ending hate — word and talk,” Anthony said. “It doesn’t do anyone any good, whether it’s a journalist on TV or a rapper on the radio.”

The announcement comes after a renewed discussion nationally about racial insensitivity, brought on by Don Imus’ derogatory comments about black members of the Rutgers University women’s basketball team.

Imus didn’t use the “N” word in those comments, but was fired in early April by CBS Radio and NBC after major companies including General Motors pulled their advertising spots.

“Now that corporate America has caught up, maybe something will happen,” Anthony said. “We have to stop investing in stuff that is killing us.”

Jim Crow was the systematic, mostly Southern practice of discrimination against and segregation of blacks from the end of post-Civil War reconstruction into the mid-20th century.

MERIDIAN ID [KTVB.com] - A Centennial High School softball coach is charged with sexual battery of a minor, a felony.

Ada County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Andrea Dearden confirms 22-year-old Lauren K. Palmer was arrested early Saturday morning in Eagle.

Dearden says a sheriff’s deputy spotted a car at the Eagle Skate Park off Horseshoe Bend Road after 1 a.m.

The police report shows the two were outside the car when a deputy approached. The deputy arrested Palmer for what is described as “inappropriate touching” with the minor.  Dearden confirms the victim is a female aged 16, though other identifying details are not being released.

A Meridian School District spokesperson confirms Palmer is an assistant softball coach for Centennial. 

She has been with the school for two years, and school officials have placed her on administrative leave. They cannot comment further on the victim in the case.

Palmer is being held in the Ada County jail, bond in the case has been set at $10,000.

 We all knew what she was, now she settled on the price with Vivid.

Patrick, star of “Loose Screw” and “Centerfold Fetish,” alleges that Playboy has failed to account for and pay royalties on revenue earned from its management of Tera’s Web site, clubtera.com. Playboy bought the contract and all of its obligations from Jameson’s company, Club Jenna, last year.

CHARLESTON, S.C. [AP] — A woman who was the December 2006 Playboy Playmate of the Month and a personal trainer, both of Atlanta, have been charged with trafficking cocaine after police say maids discovered a kilo of the drug in their hotel room.

Kia Terrell Drayton [pictured], 24, and Otis Leon Story, 33, were arrested as they left their room at the Residence Inn near North Charleston Coliseum on Wednesday morning, according to arrest warrants.

Both also are charged with possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime.

Their bail was set at $2.2 million each and they remained in jail Thursday night.

Drayton identified herself as a Playboy employee during her hearing.

According to police reports, housekeeping staff started cleaning Drayton’s room thinking she had checked out. They discovered a black gym bag left on top of a hotel safe and found a brick-shaped package wrapped in duct tape inside the safe. According to police reports, the staff called officers after unwrapping the package and finding a powdery white substance.

Police watched the room and when Story left the room with a black bag, officers stopped him and found the brick that had been in the safe, according to affidavits supporting the arrest warrants.

Police say when they searched the gold Cadillac Escalade Drayton was driving, they found two handguns, a .40-caliber Glock 22 and a .357-caliber Glock 32. Police said they seized 1,138 grams of cocaine.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jack Valenti, a former presidential aide who became Hollywood’s emissary to Washington and developer of the U.S. movie rating system, died on Thursday at age 85, his longtime spokesman, Warren Cowan, said.

Valenti served as an aide to President Lyndon Johnson before heading the Motion Picture Association of America as the movie industry’s No. 1 lobbyist for 38 years. He retired in August 2004.

Valenti, at the time heading a public relations agency working with the White House, was in John F. Kennedy’s motorcade, six cars back from the president’s limousine, when Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in 1963.

He accompanied Johnson back to Washington and can be seen in the historic photograph of Johnson being sworn in as president aboard Air Force One.

Valenti suffered a stroke in March 2007, shortly before he was to begin promoting his memoir, “This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood.”

Cowan said he died at his home in Washington, surrounded by his family.

Studio heads and prominent Hollywood and political figures paid tribute to Valenti.

President George W. Bush, a former governor of Texas, remembered him as “a great American and a great Texan” who “leaves a powerful legacy in Washington, in Hollywood, and across our Nation.” 

 Falcons may be looking for a quarterback in this weekend’s NFL draft.

Police also found items associated with dog fighting.

State Police Sgt. D.S. Carr said Vick’s relative, Davon Boddie, 26, lives in the house. Vick owns the property, but doesn’t live there and wasn’t present when a search warrant was executed in a drug investigation Wednesday night, Carr said.

Boddie was arrested outside a nightclub by Hampton police April 20 on charges of distribution of marijuana and possession with intent to distribute. The search warrant was executed by a multijurisdictional task force in a narcotics probe.

More than 60 dogs were found in three buildings. Some appeared malnourished, scarred and injured, officials said.

Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States, said the group has “heard troubling reports for some time that Michael Vick has been involved in organized dog fighting, and we fear that this investigation may validate that very disturbing allegation.”

“We urge law enforcement to aggressively investigate this matter, and we further believe that anyone who harbors dogs for the purpose of fighting, deserves to be fully prosecuted for their crimes,” Pacelle said in a statement. “Dog fighting is a barbaric activity that causes immense animal suffering and fosters violence in our communities. Our nation should have a zero tolerance policy for any form of staged animal fighting.”

The Humane Society said dog fighting is illegal nationwide and a felony in 48 states, including both Virginia and Georgia.

The animal rights group PETA has asked Falcons owner Arthur Blank to suspend Vick pending the investigation and “to kick him off the team if it is found that dogs on Vick’s property were neglected or used for fighting.”

In a letter to Blank, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said it was the second time it was writing to the owner about one of his players and allegations of cruelty to animals. On Feb. 23, the organization wrote to him about defensive tackle Jonathan Babineaux’s felony charges in Georgia stemming from the fatal beating of a dog.

Falcons spokesman Reggie Roberts said the team still was gathering information on the report and had no immediate comment.

A spokeswoman for Vick’s foundation declined comment. Joel Segal, the quarterback’s agent, and Larry Woodward, a Virginia attorney who has worked with both Vick and his younger brother, Marcus, didn’t immediately return telephone messages seeking comment.

The probe at Vick’s property is the latest in a serious of embarrassing incidents for the Atlanta quarterback.

He was named in a sordid lawsuit that accused him of knowingly infecting a woman with a sexually transmitted disease and using the alias “Ron Mexico” while seeking treatment. The case was settled out of court.

Last season, Vick flashed an obscene hand gesture to heckling Atlanta fans as he walked off the field following a dismal loss to New Orleans. He was fined $10,000 by the NFL and donated another $10,000 to charity.

In January, security officers at Miami International Airport seized a water bottle from Vick that they said smelled of marijuana and had a hidden compartment. Authorities later said there were no drugs in the bottle, and Vick explained that he used the secret compartment to carry jewelry.

Just this week, Vick came under more criticism when he failed to show for a lobbying appearance on Capitol Hill in support of increased funding for after-school programs. He missed a connecting flight in Atlanta and didn’t turn up for a later flight.