Simmons to
Pay $40K a Month in Child Support
By The Associated Press
 Russell
Simmons is seen with his daughters Aoki (center) and
Ming at the recent 40th NAACP Image Awards.
LOS ANGELES - Court records show Russell Simmons has
agreed to pay $40,000 a month in child support. Los
Angeles Superior Court judge Marjorie Steinberg signed
off on an agreement Thursday giving Kimora Lee Simmons
sole custody of the couple's two daughters,
nine-year-old Ming and six-year-old Aoki. The couple's
divorce was finalized in January. Kimora Lee Simmons
filed for divorce in March 2008, citing irreconcilable
differences.
Russell Simmons, the 51-year-old hip-hop mogul, was
granted visitation rights and must pay child support
until each daughter reaches 19 and a half years of age.
The 33-year-old Kimora Lee Simmons has final say on
whether her daughters appear on her reality TV show "Kimora:
Life in the Fab Lane."
A call placed to Russell Simmons' lawyer was forwarded
to a recorded message declining to comment.
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JEREMIAH WRIGHT -
'BARACK'S NAME AIN'T JESUS':
Rev. speaks about
former mentee during speech in Selma to mark voting
rights march.
.jpg) President
Barack Obama's longtime minister, the Rev. Jeremiah
Wright, warned the more than 700 people attending his
speech in Selma, Alabama that the president is not a
savior.
"Barack's name ain't Jesus. Barack ain't gonna improve
your child's reading score. There are things we've got
to do on our own," he said Thursday, addressing a mass
meeting that kicked off the 44th anniversary celebration
of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march.
Speaking in a brief interview with The Associated Press
before the speech, Wright smiled at the mention the
nation's first black president.
"He's like any other president," Wright said. "He's a
politician and he's got to do what politicians do."
Wright's remarks were similar to those he made after his
fiery preaching became a campaign issue last year,
forcing Obama to distance himself from his longtime
pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
Obama resigned from Trinity United and, ultimately, cut
ties with Wright because of the uproar caused by
videotaped snippets of some of Wright's sermons, in
which he shouted "God damn America" and accused the
government of creating AIDS.
Obama may no longer associate with Wright, but the
program for the event featured a picture of the two,
smiling together, on the front
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