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    Albertine Thomas

    by  • April 12, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Obituaries, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

    Albertine Thomas

    By Vanessa Le Blanc Albertine Thomas passed away at the age of 83, and was the only child of Alberta and Joseph Wilson of New Orleans, Louisiana. While growing up in the South, she attended segregated schools. However, the injustice and bigotry of segregation did not diminish her dreams. As integration transformed society, Albertine...

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    Sharron Faye Jacobs, 63

    by  • April 12, 2013 • Obituaries, Obituary, San Francisco

    Sharron Faye Jacobs

    Sharron Faye Jacobs, an active member of Bethel AME Church in San Francisco since 1975, passed away on March 26 at the age of 63. She was born to Tommy and Clytie Mae Walsh Jacobs in Fordyce, Arkansas in 1950. A member of Bethel AME, she served as secretary and administrative assistant for over...

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    Kathryn Lee, 77, Publisher of Sacramento Observer

    by  • March 31, 2013 • Obituaries

      She was a contestant in the Miss Amigos pageant in Sacramento in 1954, but those who knew her said her true beauty lie in her ability to help provide opportunities for other African Americans in the region. Kathryn C. Lee, co-publisher of the Sacramento Observer Newspaper, passed away peacefully at her home on...

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    Velma Ewing, 88, Widow of Tuskegee Airman

    by  • March 22, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Obituaries, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles, Vallejo News

    Velma Ewing on Mother’s Day last year..

    By Janice Ewing and Lateefa Ali The Tuskegee Airmen earned their place in history as they bravely defied convention and fought for what they loved.  We remember these men. But we seem to forget their wives who have also earned their place in history, defying convention and fighting for what, and who they loved....

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    Man Wanted for Spreading HIV to Hundreds of Men and Women

    by  • March 15, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Black Church Information, Entertainment, Marin County News, Michelle Obama, News Articles, Obituaries, Post News Feature Story, Richmond News, San Francisco, SECTIONS, site test

    Isaac Don Burks

    Authorities are offering a reward up to $100,000 for information leading to the arrest of 31-year-old Isaac Don Burks, who has been accused of intentionally infecting hundreds of men and women in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania with HIV. Police say his potential victims could date back as far as 2003. He has...

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    Darrell Carl Burton, 68

    by  • January 18, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Obituaries, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Darrell Carl Burton

    Darrell Carl Burton, a former PG&E employee and a mentor to children, died Wednesday, Jan. 9. He was 68. Burton graduated in 1963 from Lincoln High School in Port Arthur, Texas and joined the U.S. Army, becoming a drill sergeant. After leaving the military in 1968, he relocated to Alameda where he attended Alameda...

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    14-Year-Old Girl Takes on HIV/AIDS Fight in Uganda

    by  • January 4, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Church Events, HIV, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Obituaries, Obituary

    Moro talking to her peers about behaviour change.

      Moro, a 14-year-old girl in Uganda, has managed to set up a HIV/AIDS education project, Advice for Change, mainly targeting youth living in the slums. Moro,is a student at Kairos High School in Bukasa, lives in Acholi Quarters, near Kampala, Uganda. “I set up this project, mainly to create awareness about HIV/AIDS, such...

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    Marva Whitney, 68, Singer in James Brown Revue

    by  • January 4, 2013 • Barak Obama, Bay Area, Berkeley, Entertainment, Oakland News Articles, Obituaries, Special Interests Articles

    Marva Whitney

    Marva Whitney, a fiery-voiced funk singer who toured and collaborated with James Brown — along the way earning the nickname “Soul Sister #1” — died Saturday at 68, Whitney died from complications of pneumonia. She is best known for her version of “It’s My Thing,” which cracked the Hot 100 in 1969, and for...

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    Bass-Baritone Vocalist David L. Tigner, 61

    by  • December 21, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Oakland News Articles, Obituaries, South County, Special Interests Articles

    David L. Tigner

    Renowned bass-baritone David L. Tigner, 61, died Dec. 11 of chronic renal and congestive heart failure. As a child, Tigner discovered he had perfect pitch plunking out a Johann Sebastian Bach prelude by ear on a broken piano at his family’s Sebastopol home. He joined the San Francisco Opera in 1974 after two years...

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    Frank Davis, Jr.

    by  • October 5, 2012 • Berkeley, Obituaries

    Frank Davis Jr.

    Frank Davis Jr. 81, of Berkeley, California, died peacefully at home on September 26, 2012, surrounded by family and friends. A memorial service was held Wednesday October 3, 2012, 11:00 am, at the South Berkeley Community Church, 1802 Fairview Street. Berkeley, CA 94703. Telephone (510) 652-1040. He was born March 6, 1931 in Vicksburg,...

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    Lorenzo Hoopes, 98

    by  • September 28, 2012 • Church Events, Oakland News Articles, Obituaries

    Lorenzo Hoopes

    Lorenzo “Ren” Neville Hoopes, 98 – member of the   Oakland school board for 17 years,  Safeway executive and Mormon bishop –  died on Sept. 21. An active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he served as bishop, stake president, England Bristol mission president and Oakland Temple president and sealer. He...

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    Wanna Wright, 67

    by  • June 2, 2012 • Obituaries

    Wanna Wright

    Wanna Wright died on Saturday afternoon, May 20.  She had undergone many hours of heart surgery, which proved to be more than her heart could tolerate. Wright had earned a reputation in the Bay Area for her tireless work as a community breast cancer advocate and health educator. Some of the organizations she worked...

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    Services for Cyrus Eugene Bradford

    by  • May 25, 2012 • Obituaries

    Eugene Bradford

    Oakland resident Cyrus Eugene Bradford died Tuesday, May 15 in Hayward, A public viewing will be held 11:30 a.m. to 6:15 p.m. at Fouche’s Hudson Funeral Home, 3665 Telegraph Ave.  in  Oakland followed by a Quiet Hour at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 30. A funeral service will be held 11 a.m., Thursday, May...

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    Charles Edward Dickens, 56

    by  • May 18, 2012 • Obituaries

    Charles “Knottie” Edward Dickens – skilled as a cook, landscaper and painter – died March 28 in San Jose at the age of 56. Born to Louise Hall and Costroma Dickens II on April 10, 1956, he attended elementary school in Marin City and graduated from Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley. Preceded by...

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    EJS Mourns the Loss of John Payton

    by  • March 26, 2012 • Obituaries, Obituary, Uncategorized

    Photo via BET

    The Equal Justice Society mourns the loss of John Payton, the President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., who died late Thursday after a brief illness. He was 65. EJS expresses our deep condolences to his wife, Gay, and to the LDF family on this tragic loss. “John Payton...

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