Recent Posts Tagged With 'in memoriam'

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  Posted on Sunday August 10th, 2008 at 17:25 in sound and music, in memoriam

  And Hayes Makes ThreeAnother new ancestor emergesI feel like I need to take one of those advertising pens that companies use to promote their products and have a galaxy of them printed with the words, "Who's Next?" The superstitious among us always s...

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  Posted on Sunday August 10th, 2008 at 14:00 in in memoriam

  In Memoriam Of course, we are in mourning ... shock ... numb disbelief at the passing of comedian/actor Bernie Mac (Bernard Jeffrey McCullough) at age 50. The popular entertainer had been suffering for some time from the disease sarcoidosis, but re...

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  Posted on Saturday July 26th, 2008 at 00:31 in Poets, in memoriam, writers lives

  Remembering Ms. CarrieIt was 1998, and we -- a group of emerging black poets -- gathered at Mt. St. Alphonsus, a convent retreat in Esopus, New York. We were bright lumps of coal ready for fire or ready to shine. The mountain there, on the winding ba...

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  Posted on Friday July 25th, 2008 at 14:08 in in memoriam

  In Memoriam: Carrie Allen McCrayOctober 4, 1913 - July 25, 2008Journey Well, My Sister-Mother-Poet Friend ... *Freedom's Child*.more when the words find me ....http://www.text-link-ads.com/xml_blogger.php?inventory_key=2FG8JBRWCSL41ZS65UVV...

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  Posted on Thursday July 24th, 2008 at 16:11 in theatre, in memoriam

  In Memoriam: Harlem Theatre Pioneer Dr. Barbara Ann TeerDr. Barbara Ann Teer, founder and CEO of the National Black Theatre in Harlem in 1968, died on Monday at her home in New York. She was 71.Teer appeared on Broadway in Where's Daddy (1966) and Kw...

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  Posted on Monday June 16th, 2008 at 09:05 in in memoriam

  In MemoriamSo many people we've come to rely on to turn our world on its ever changing axis are slipping into memory and becoming ancestors. I can't keep up with them all, but I stop to acknowledge those that seem to move me -- or alter me -- in some...

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  Posted on Wednesday June 4th, 2008 at 15:12 in in memoriam

  In MemoriamI feel like I need some wireless cyber dust, an old-fashioned crystal ball and an HDMI splitter to keep up with how many people are leaving us as of late. This post is for the celeb departures:Harvey KormanIt is hard to believe that Harvey...

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  Posted on Monday June 2nd, 2008 at 07:03 in in memoriam

  In MemoriamLate night commercials about term life insurance and good health always make me think about who we are losing in our world. Since I'm a hopeless insomniac, I'm always in the middle of working on something when these kinds of commercials co...

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  Posted on Thursday April 17th, 2008 at 17:27 in in memoriam

  In Memoriam: Aime Cesaire and E.A. MarkhamWhen Evie Shockley forwarded news of the death of Aime Fernand David Cesaire today, I kept pinching myself to see if it was a dream in which I got an email from Evie talking about his death. Sadly, it wasn't....