Denzel Washington was recently baptized in a ceremony at a New York church a few days before he turns 70 years old. He was also granted a minister’s license, allowing him to officiate at religious services and pursue ordination in the future.
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Greg Gumbel, the popular CBS broadcaster who spent decades on the airwaves covering a multitude of sports, died Friday. He was 78 years old.
Parsons, who was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2015, had scaled back his professional commitments in recent years due to complications from the disease.
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A woman who grew up in the community around North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, earned a master’s degree from A&T and became the first African American elected both to the Greensboro City Council and to the Greensboro mayorship has passed, and the Aggie family locally and nationwide are mourning her death.
Former South Carolina Sen. Kay Patterson, who rose from cleaning offices at the segregated Statehouse to serving as a state legislator for over 30 years died Friday. He was 93.
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Daniel Whyte Iii, President Of Gospel Light Society International, Says Rich American Black And White Republican And Democrat Pastors Such As The Following Ought To Lead All Pastors And Churches To “Go And Do Thou Likewise” As The Poor Kenyan Pastors Are Doing:
I had the pleasure of seeing Giovanni during a lecture series at North Carolina State University while attending St. Augustine’s College in Raleigh. Professor Diane Cherry asked a classmate and I if we were interested in seeing her, and of course, it was a resounding yes. After all, we had studied Giovanni’s most prominent poems and reviewed a few of her books in our American Literature class.
Jamaican businessman and owner of Pier One on the Waterfront, Robert Russell, has died. He was 75 years old.