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As the two-hour wake for her mother, brother and nephew came to an end, Jennifer Hudson approached their coffins and spent a few moments with each.
She paused at the casket of her 7-year-old nephew Julian, then moved on, gently touching the body of her mother. Composed, the 27-year actress and singer leaned down to kiss [...]

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A day before the presidential election, Barack Obama announced the death Monday of his grandmother, who helped raise him and who he praised as the cornerstone of his family. The Democratic presidential candidate announced the news in a joint statement with his sister Maya Soetoro-Ng. He said his grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, had died peacefully after [...]

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Hundreds of mourners streamed into a private funeral service for Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson‘s slain mother, brother and nephew Monday at a South Side church.
Small blue tickets that read “Hudson Family Funeral” were needed to enter the massive Apostolic Church of God, but that didn’t deter crowds of onlookers who gathered outside.
Police directed traffic around [...]

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A day after skipping yesterday’s public memorial, Jennifer Hudson joined family members and celebrity friends—invites went out to the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Queen Latifah and Fantasia Barrino—this morning in Chicago for a private service for the Oscar winner’s slain mother, brother and nephew.
Roughly 200 people attended the invite-only closed-casket service, which took place [...]

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The Detroit Pistons shook the NBA in a big way Monday — landing former MVP Allen Iverson from the Denver Nuggets. The Pistons gave up All-Star point guard and former NBA finals MVP Chauncey Billups, top reserve Antonio McDyess and project Cheikh Samb.
“We just felt it was the right time to change our team,” Pistons [...]

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With two days remaining until Election Day, Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs told voters in South Florida not to be scared away from the polls by long lines.
“It’s bigger than us,” Combs said. “We have to do it for our children, we have to do it for the people that died for us to have [...]

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Flanked by three of her students from Gunsaulus Scholastic Academy, 2nd-grade teacher Carmen Williams told people gathered for a memorial service today how the slain nephew of actress Jennifer Hudson recently had taken to telling knock-knock jokes.
It was one of those jokes that a student in Room 312 shared with the class as they waited for [...]

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Rev. Al Sharpton will lead an historic “Watch Night” tomorrow in Atlanta to view the election returns at Ebenezer Baptist Church in the pulpit of the Heritage Sanctuary, where Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached his ministry of non violence.
The Watch Night participants will hold a candlelight vigil at 7:30 p.m. at the [...]

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