RIP
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Gerald Ford (1913-2006)
He was the only president not elected to national office by the people of the united states (well technically they are all elected by the electoral college, but that’s another civics lesson for another time). Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr. in Omaha Nebraska. His parents separated before he was born. Read more
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James Brown (1933-2006)
Say it Loud (I’m Black and I’m Proud), Santa Claus (Come Straight to the Ghetto), Please, Please, Please. Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag, A Man’s World, the list goes on and on and on. James Joseph Brown Jr. (who later removed the Jr. designation from his name) was born in South Carolina during the Read more
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Gerald Levert 1966-2006
Dang. I just got off the phone with my sister, and she just got off of the phone with Punkin*. And Gerald Levert died of a massive heart attack in his sleep at his home in Newbury, Ohio. I was asking her, “Do you mean Eddie Levert?” and she was like, “No, Gerald Levert. The Read more
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Ed Bradley (June 22, 1941 – November 9, 2006)
He was wounded while on assignment covering the Vietnam War. In 1976, he became the first black white house correspondent. His accolades are way too numerous for me to go into right now. He was one of the reasons that I pursued journalism in college, and he died today of leukemia. Read more
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