This is not the first time the Forest Service's management practices for the Giant Sequoia National Monument have been questioned. In 2006, a federal judge ruled that the Forest Service's 2003 monument management plan failed to comply with federal environmental laws.
*Marie Van Brittan Brown was born on this date in 1922. She was an African American nurse and inventor. Born Marie Van Brittan in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, in 1966 she had the idea for a home surveillance device. She applied for a patent along with her husband Albert Brown in 1966 for a closed circuit television security system.
Madea's daughter Cora Simmons is her most recognized and only child to appear in most of the plays and movies. Cora is 50 in Diary of a Mad Black Woman. She was born in 1953 when Madea was 18. Cora is a devout Christian and is often in the company of her father Leroy Brown.adea's daughter, Michelle Griffin, was born when Madea and her first husband, Johnny, were teenagers. Michelle grew up to be a prostitute and neglectful mother of two daughters of her own, Maylee and Vianne, who appear in the play I Can Do Bad All By Myself.