"The Oscar winner plays a small town detective in a new HBO limited series debuting this spring
"HBO will drop all seven episodes of "Mare of Easttown," a limited detective series starring Kate Winslet, on April 18 at 10 p.m.
Winslet reportedly swapped her natural British accent for a Delaware County one, though the show portrays her as a small town detective living in nearby Easttown Township, Chester County."
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Adopting a Delco accent for 'Mare of Easttown' made Kate Winslet want to 'throw things'
Former Coatesville City Council member Ingrid Jones grew up as the 1st baby girl in decades among a family of boys in Black entrepreneur Percy Sutton's family from Texas.
As an infant she sat on her uncle Percy Sutton's shoulders and was passed among the boys and men in the Sutton family as Italian women pass baby boys around the dinner table.
Ing sat in front of Bill and Hillary Clinton at Percy Suttons funeral:
"They filed one after another into Riverside Church, mayors and governors and renowned preachers and musicians, all come to pay their respects to that most unusual product of our nation’s history, a man who became father to modern Harlem and godfather to generations of black politicians.
Percy Ellis Sutton, who died last month at age 89, never rose higher than Manhattan borough president, an office he held for 11 years. But in a more racially enlightened age, speaker after speaker noted in eulogies on Wednesday, this stylish and gifted politician well might have been commemorated as a former mayor or governor.
“I’m a proud son of this city, and Percy Sutton was a father to so many,” Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. told an audience that filled every seat in every pew on the grand floor and balconies.
Mr. Holder pointed, jabbed really, at Mr. Sutton’s cherry-oak coffin, which lay garlanded in purple flowers. “Without him, there would be no me.”
For three hours on this cold winter day, Riverside Church, with its soaring gothic reaches, became the Westminster Abbey of black political royalty: Gov. David A. Paterson, Representative Charles B. Rangel, former Mayor David N. Dinkins, the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and a host of City Council and Assembly representatives. More than a few white notables mixed among them, from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to Senator Charles E. Schumer and former Gov. Mario M. Cuomo. They exchanged confidences and laughs and bowed to a master of their game."
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Jan. 6, 2010
Ingrid is very well connected. She has an extremely low profile in Coatesville.
When Richard Legree was chair of Area 14 of the Chester County Republican Committee and Ingrid ran for District Justice he told people Ingrid was “Not Black enough.” So, in Richie’s mind it looks like being from a pioneering NAACP family that became billionaires in legal businesses makes you not Black.
Ingrid is a former member of the Coatesville NAACP. She discovered the leaders of the Coatesville NAACP were allegedly using NAACP trips to shack up with girlfriends. The Sutton family cut off funds to the Coatesville NAACP.
“I evaluate leaders by saying how many people voted for you. Another way that you can vote for a person is to join with that person in protest…Change does not come except for aggressive approaches. The way you get followers is to run for public office and win or to put your purposes before the public and have the public come to you and support you in those purposes” Percy Sutton:
Whereas Percy Sutton served his country in World War II as an intelligence
officer with the Tuskegee Airmen, who overcame prejudice and doubts
about their skills and bravery to perform heroically as the first
African-Americans in the U.S. Army Air Corps;
[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1349 Introduced in House (IH)]
111th CONGRESS
2d Session
Recognizing Percy Sutton as one of the Nation's most influential
political, civil rights, and business leaders, who, through his
brilliance, courage, and compassion, inspired countless people in the
United States.
_______________________________________________________________________
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 11, 2010
Mr. Rangel submitted the following resolution; which was referred to
the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
_______________________________________________________________________
RESOLUTION
Recognizing Percy Sutton as one of the Nation's most influential
political, civil rights, and business leaders, who, through his
brilliance, courage, and compassion, inspired countless people in the
United States.
Whereas Percy Sutton was born on November 24, 1920, the last of 15 children of
Samuel Johnson Sutton, Sr., a former slave, and Lillian Viola Smith;
Whereas despite their modest backgrounds, Percy Sutton and 11 of his siblings
who survived into adulthood all graduated from college;
Whereas Percy Sutton earned his first college degree, a Juris Doctorate, from
Brooklyn College Law School in 1950 while working two jobs to finance
his tuition;
Whereas Percy Sutton served his country in World War II as an intelligence
officer with the Tuskegee Airmen, who overcame prejudice and doubts
about their skills and bravery to perform heroically as the first
African-Americans in the U.S. Army Air Corps;
Whereas Percy Sutton was an accomplished civil rights attorney, famously
representing civil rights icon Malcolm X and his family, as well as
hundreds of civil rights protesters who were arrested in the South
during the 1960s;
Whereas Percy Sutton was elected to the New York State Assembly in 1964 and
assumed the position of Manhattan Borough President in 1966, becoming
the first African-American to do so, and went on to serve a record-
setting 10 years in the office;
Whereas during Sutton's three-term tenure, he was the highest ranking African-
American elected official in New York City;
Whereas Percy Sutton was a devoted member of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People and served as its New York chapter
president for two terms;
Whereas Percy Sutton was presented with the organization's highly prized
Spingarn Medal in 1987;
Whereas Percy Sutton pioneered African-American media ownership as a founder of
Inner City Broadcasting Corporation in 1971, which over the years owned
and operated 18 radio stations across the country and cable television
franchises in New York and Philadelphia;
Whereas in 1981, under his leadership, Inner City presided over the $20,000,000
renovation of the Apollo Theater, restoring it as a vibrant center of
entertainment, including production of ``Showtime at the Apollo'', the
popular national talent competition that was televised for over 20
years;
Whereas Percy Sutton was selected in 1995 and 1996 to represent the United
States as a business delegate to the Group of Seven (G7) Nations meeting
on Telecommunications and High Technology in Brussels and the G7
Developing Nations Intelligence Technology Conference in South Africa,
respectively; and
Whereas Percy Sutton died at the age of 89 on December 26, 2009, in Manhattan,
New York, survived by Leatrice Sutton, his wife of 67 years: Now,
therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives recognizes Percy
Sutton, one of New York's leading public figures, for his many years of
service to the State of New York and the Nation as a defender of equal
rights, justice, and economic opportunity for all people in the United
States.
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