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Article: Detroit's Operation Get Down Forms Memorial Scholarship for Aaliyah.
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- August 31, 2001
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DETROIT, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ --
Detroit's Operation Get Down announces the memorial scholarship fund in the name of the late singer Aaliyah, who died Aug. 25 in a fatal plane crash in the Bahamas. The 22 year-old was a graduate of the Detroit High School for the Fine and Performing Arts.
The Memorial Scholarship Fund will allow four students to attend Aaliyah's former high school and will start giving out the scholarships in January, 2002. Her uncle, music producer and songwriter Barry Hankerson, a former Detroiter and ex-husband of Gladys Knight is setting up the fund, while Operation Get Down will manage it.
Operation Get Down is a ...