By Ariele Vaccaro July 24, 2015 Taki S. Raton On the evening of July 17, a crowd gathered in the former home of AM 920 WOKY to celebrate the life of writer and educator Taki S. Raton. There, more than thirty attendees listened to speeches from those whose lives were touched by […]
Gene Gene the Dancing Machine of ‘Gong Show’ Fame Dies
(REUTERS) — Eugene Patton, the stage hand who earned fame as "Gene Gene The Dancing Machine" on the quirky talent romp "The Gong Show," has died at the age of 82 after suffering from diabetes, his family said. At what were supposed to be spontaneous moments in the show launched in the 1970s that […]
VOICES: A Relentless Crusader for Diversity is Lost
By Brent Jones March 13, 2015 Dori J. Maynard (Photo: Jane Tyska, Oakland Tribune via AP) Journalism lost a courageous soldier this week. Dori J. Maynard, 56, who died Tuesday of lung cancer, didn't report in combat zones. She had no battle scars to show. Dori's fight was of a […]
2 Tuskegee Airmen, Both 91, Die on Same Day in Los Angeles
By John Rogers, Associated Press January 16, 2015 This April 7, 2011 photo by Bruce Talamon shows Clarence E. “Buddy” Huntley Jr., a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, the famed all-black squadron that flew in World War II, posing with a P-51C Mustang fighter plane similar to the one that he was a crew […]
Edward Brooke, 1st Black Elected U.S. Senator, Dies
By Sylvia Wingfield & Mark Pratt, Associated Press January 9, 2015 This Oct. 28, 2009, file photo shows President Barack Obama greeting former Massachusetts Sen. Edward Brooke in the Rotunda on Capitol Hill in Washington, during a ceremony where Brooke received the Congressional Gold Medal. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS (ASSOCIATED PRESS) […]