Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten, Politics on Jun 3rd, 2010
Family will receive friends Thursday 4 to 5 PM at the
St. Marks Institutional Baptist Church, 655 N. Bentalou St.
with memorial services following. Interment private. In
lieu of flowers, gifts may be made to Hope Well Cancer
Support in memory of Michael Dobson. ARRANGEMENTS
ENTRUSTED TO CARLTON C. DOUGLASS FUNERAL
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Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on Jun 3rd, 2010
By Jacques Kelly
At the memorial service Wednesday for Raymond V. Haysbert Sr., Kweisi Mfume recalled the frank advice handed to him by the respected statesman of the African-American business and political community.
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on Jun 2nd, 2010
Raymond V. Haysbert Sr., whose Parks Sausage Co. became the first black-owned business in the U.S. to go public in 1969, and the famous commercial of a little kid sitting at a breakfast table and yelling to his mom: ‘More Parks sausages please!’
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on Jun 2nd, 2010
By the time he was 4, Gary Coleman had developed a wit and precociousness that charmed his parents Sue and W.G. “Willie” Coleman. Tragically by his 20s, he was no longer speaking to them.
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten, Politics on Jun 1st, 2010
Raymond V. Haysbert’s Funeral Arrangements
EMPOWERMENT TEMPLE. Wed., JUNE 2nd. - FAMILY HOURÂ @ 11 am
MEMORIAL SERVICES 12 NOON.
REPAST ACROSS THE STREET AT THE FORUM 2-2:30 pm
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten, Politics on Jun 1st, 2010
According to Billy Wilson, Pres. And founder of the Motown Alumni Association, former lead singer of the Temptations, Ali “Ollie” Woodson, died Sunday of cancer (leukemia) in California. He was 58.
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on May 30th, 2010
In the last 10 years, the only way Sue and Willie Coleman kept up with their estranged son’s life was through headlines: his marriage, his legal problems, and finally, his hospitalization and removal from life support on Friday.
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on May 29th, 2010
– If only real life for the child stars of “Diff’rent Strokes” was anything like the fictional Park Avenue life of luxury they inhabited on television.
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on May 28th, 2010
The hotel employee who found Slipknot bassist Paul Gray dead in his room told a 911 operator that there was a hypodermic needle next to Gray’s bed and there were “all kinds of pills everywhere.”
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on May 14th, 2010
Lena Horne, whose signature song was “Stormy Weather,” was remembered at her funeral on Friday as a shy girl from Brooklyn who fought racism for decades to emerge as a world-class singer and social activist.
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on May 11th, 2010
The mother of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player charged with killing a member of the women’s team described the victim Tuesday as a “sweet wonderful young woman with a limitless future.”
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on May 10th, 2010
Lena Horne, the enchanting jazz singer and actress who reviled the bigotry that allowed her to entertain white audiences but not socialize with them, slowing her rise to Broadway superstardom, has died. She was 92.
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on May 8th, 2010
It is a scene that plays out in Maryland families every year: children learning lacrosse at the hand of a guiding parent. At the age of 5, Yeardley Love picked up her first lacrosse stick and began playing with her father.
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on May 4th, 2010
Pneumonia, not drug abuse, killed actor Corey Haim, the Los Angeles County Coroner ruled in an autopsy report released Tuesday.
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten, Obama on Apr 30th, 2010
President Barack Obama, sitting next to First Lady Michelle Obama, wipes away tears at Dr. Dorothy Height’s funeral on Thursday held at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
