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Mourners Remember Shaniya Davis, 5; Watch The Video Of Her Memorial Service News station WRAL has posted a video of the funeral for five-year-old Shaniya Davis on its Web site. In it, you can see mourners packed the church to remember the short life of the little girl. ...

Tuskegee Airmen's Robert Searcy Dies Robert Searcy, a member of the all-black group of World War II servicemen known as the Tuskegee Airmen and a longtime resident of Los Angeles, died of colon cancer Sept. 7 at his granddaughter's home in Atlanta. He was 88.Searcy was born in Mt. Pleasant, Texas, in 1921, and briefly attended what is now Prairie View A&M University before enlisting in the Army Air Corps in 1942. In an interview earlier this year, he said that after basic training at Ft. Hood, Texas, he was selec ...

Myles Brand Dies, Leaving A Legacy Of Development For Black College Sports While he was not directly involved or affiliated with any particular HBCU, Myles Brand was someone who valued diversity in collegiate athletics, and did good work in making it a reality.Brand died today at the age of 67, after a year-long bout with pancreatic cancer. Those who do not follow NCAA regulation and administration may know him solely as a president of the NCAA who piloted the athletic association to new levels of exposure and financial expansion. ...

Jody Powell, Press Secretary For Jimmy Carter, Dead At 65 Jody Powell, 65, a key public relations specialist for Jimmy Carter who helped orchestrate the obscure Georgia governor's rise to the White House in 1976 and then served as his press secretary, died Sept. 14 at a hospital near his home in Cambridge, on Maryland's Eastern Shore.His death, from an apparent heart attack, was confirmed by Jack Nelson, a former Washington bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times and a friend of Mr. Powell's. ...

Ted Kennedy's legacy in the Black community I was deeply saddened to hear about Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's death. Ted Kennedy was special because of his tireless work for the dispossessed, the immigrant, the disenfranchised, the poor, the everyman and everywoman that makes America great. As a man of privilege, Kennedy did not know poverty, but as he came from a family of immigrants, he recognized that if we could establish a level playing field, anyone in America can succeed. ...

CBS News Pioneer Don Hewitt Dies At 86 Don Hewitt, the CBS Newsman who invented 60 Minutes and produced the popular newsmagazine for 36 years, died Wednesday. He was 86. He died of pancreatic cancer at his Bridgehampton home, CBS said. His death came month after that of fellow CBS legend Walter Cronkite.Hewitt joined CBS News in television's infancy in 1948, and produced the first televised presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960. ...

Obama, Others Remember Eunice Kennedy Shriver Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the founder of the Special Olympics and sister of former President John F. Kennedy, has died in Massachusetts. She was 88.The mother of journalist Maria Shriver, the wife of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the wife of former vice presidential candidate Sargent Shriver, ...

Eunice Kennedy Shriver and her family at their best Privileged, but generous. Powerful, yet willing to empower others.Eunice Kennedy Shriver represented the very best of the Kennedy family and why we're still fascinated by them. The sister of former President John F. Kennedy died Monday at 88, with her extended family at her side. ...

'Breakfast Club' Director Dies John Hughes, the director of The Breakfast Club and more of the most watched teen movies from the '80s, died suddenly Thursday. He was 59 and was taking a walk in Manhattan at the time of his death.Hughes also directed Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science, Uncle Buck, and Planes, Trains & Automobiles. He wrote Home Alone and many other movies. ...

Michael Jackson 1958-2009 When Michael Joseph Jackson departed Thursday afternoon in Los Angeles, he fully joined the pop-culture pantheon, keeping company with Frank Sinatra, Elvis and James Dean as an indelible icon of our time. By turns channeling Fred Astaire, P.T. Barnum and James Brown, Michael, alone among this nation's top tier of musical talent, wed sound to spectacle like no one before him, and like no one ever will again. ...