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It’s a great practice to cherish Mom’s everyday, but there’s one day out of the year designated to honor those who have birthed and/or raised children.
Mother’s Day 2013 has come and gone but several celebrity mom’s shared photos online of their special day.
Tameka Raymond, Kandi Burruss, Keyshia Cole and Monica Brown posted photos of their Mother’s Day experience while celebrity photographer Rob Ector shared a few mom & daughter portraits that he’s captured.
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Last week, Tameka Raymond visited the Holiday Marina at Lake Lanier, the same lake where her 11 year old son,?Kile Glover, was killed in an unfortunate jet ski accident last Summer.
[READ: Arrest Made in Jet Ski Death of Kile Glover + Tameka Raymond Lobbies for Tougher Water Safety Laws…]
Tameka’s visit was clearly a bittersweet one. ? The grieving mother, who wore a shirt bearing her late son’s image, witnessed her hard work come to fruition as she watched Georgia Governor Nathan Deal sign SB 136 in to law (April 23, 2013).
[Sidebar: SB 136 was a bill that lowers the blood-alcohol content limit for boaters from the standard .10 to an .08, it also increases penalties for those caught boating while intoxicated. The legislation also serves to better educate the public on boater safety and guidelines.]
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The megastar R&B crooner made news over the past few months after he played hardball with his ex-wife, Tameka Foster Glover Raymond, in their bitter child custody battle.
[FLASHBACK: Judge Steps Down in Usher Raymond Custody Battle]
Usher has a lot on his mind lately after reportedly breaking up with his manager/girlfriend Grace Miguel and what is old is oftentimes “new” again.
That being said… the ‘OMG’ singer sent out the following cryptic message just a moment ago… Continue Reading…
Lil Naviyd & Cinco pose in glasses resembling the one’s once worn by their brother Kile, who was killed in a jet ski accident last Summer on Lake Lanier.
[FLASHBACK: R.I.P. Kile Glover: A Beautiful Mind Is Laid to Rest… (PHOTOS + VIDEO)]
In honor of what would have been her son Kile Glover’s 12th birthday, Tameka held a celebratory launch party for the non-profit foundation created in his honor.
“Kile?s World Foundation” will offer art-based camps with multiple workshops including general instruction in the areas of acting, singing, dance, painting, illustration, music production and digital media.
It is also Tameka’s hopes to eventually open a magnet school with an emphasis on music and the arts in Kile’s honor.
[READ: Family Friend Responsible For Kile’s Death Pleads ‘Not Guilty’…]
Many of Kile’s family members and friends showed up to the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta to support the event and several pieces of the gifted pre-teen’s original art work was on display for all to admire.
Attendees included: All of Kile’s brothers, his cousin Lake (Usher’s brother’s daughter), Sabrina Rowe & Sherlinda Parker (Big Rich Atlanta), Atlanta radio personality Frank Ski, Quad (Married to Medicine) and more.
Noticeably absent? Usher Raymond and Ryan Glover (Kile’s father).
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Hubbard is the jet ski operator/friend of the family who allegedly collided with?Tameka Raymond?&?Ryan Glover?s son, Kile at Lake Lanier last summer.
Kile and his father, Ryan Glover, were vacationing at the lake July 4th weekend when Hubbard’s personal watercraft crashed into the boy’s raft. ?Kile subsequently died of heart failure at an Atlanta hospital July 21, 2012 at the age of 11 years old.
[READ:?R.I.P. Kile Glover: A Beautiful Mind is Laid To Rest (PHOTOS + VIDEO]
Jordan Shepp, a family friend & daughter of Peaches Chin (Kandi Burruss’ TAGS Boutique buisness partner), was tubing with Kile that day and suffered injuries as well. ?Shepp survived the accident with?a severe injury to her left arm and her scalp was ?seriously disfigured,? requiring multiple sutures.
Glover?s death and other accidents and injuries on Lake Lanier sparked legislative scrutiny of boating regulations, resulting in new boating safety regulations.
Hubbard faced a judge earlier this week on charges stemming from both Kile’s death and Jordan’s injuries in the crash and entered a plea of ‘not guilty’ to all charges.
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Tameka and Ryan both actively lobbied with the Georgia Senate committee where she spoke and offered first hand information about the lack of boating safety on Lake Lanier.
[READ: R.I.P. Kile Glover: A Beautiful Mind is Laid To Rest (PHOTOS + VIDEO]
After a legislation on boating safety was passed earlier this week, the District Attorney in Hall County, Georgia decided to move forward with prosecuting the man responsible for the accident that killed young Kile Glover.
For the record, other outlets are reporting the story as if Usher has something to do with it… and clearly he doesn’t.? But I digress.
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