My question is where does the Black community mourn?  When I turn on the
television, I want to see tributes, memorials and images of our proud
soldiers.  This is where a major disconnect exists. Young people are
constantly barraged with Nelly, Beyonce and Jay Z and som don't have any
earthly idea who Boyd, Campbell and Bradley are.

Is there a way for us to collaborate to create a video tribute as an
educational tool?

Peace,
Sybril Bennett
Belmont University

Anita Fleming-Rife wrote:

>     Yet another loss. Read below.
>
>     FYI-----This was sent from AABJ yesterday.
>
>     Deidre
>
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     From: Deborah Simon [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>     Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 3:07 PM
>     Subject: FW: notable passings
>
>     Dear Members,
>
>     It was been a year for losses. Earlier this month we lost Ed
>     Bradley. But since then two notable print journalists have passed
>     away.
>
>     Gerald M. Boyd, the only black journalist to rise to the highest
>     newsroom ranks at the New York Times, died on Thanksgiving at his
>     New York home after battling lung cancer, his wife, journalist
>     Robin D. Stone, told Journal-isms.
>
>     .
>
>     "He was at home with his family," she said.
>     Boyd, 56, stepped down as managing editor on June 5, 2003, with
>     the paper's executive editor, Howell Raines, in the wake of the
>     scandal involving Jayson Blair, the reporter whose extensive
>     fabrications "laid bare deep discontent within the staff over
>     their leadership," as the Times reported at the time.
>     His wife said Boyd "should be remembered for his contributions to
>     journalism, to the people who worked in the field, to diversity in
>     journalism and to humanity."
>
>     Journalist-turned-novelist Bebe Moore Campbell, who was diagnosed
>     <http://www.bebemoorecampbell.com/e/PressRelease-March5.2006a.pdf>
>     with a neurological condition earlier this year, died peacefully
>     at home at 12:15 a.m. Pacific time Monday, her publicist, Linda
>     Wharton Boyd, told Journal-isms. She was 56.
>     Campbell had written for the New York Times Magazine, the
>     Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Essence, Ebony and Black
>     Enterprise and had been a regular commentator for National Public
>     Radio's "Morning Edition." Her novels include "Brothers and
>     Sisters," "Singing in the Comeback Choir" and "Your Blues Ain't
>     Like Mine."
>     "In 'Your Blues Ain't Like Mine,' her first novel, Campbell's
>     ability to delve into the minds of multifarious characters and
>     relate their truths was riveting. She also demonstrated her
>     uncanny adroitness at helping readers sort through their own
>     heated feelings about race while considering opposing views.
>     Campbell so skillfully navigated this same risky ground with her
>     second novel, 'Brothers and Sisters,' that it is now a text for
>     several college race-relations courses," Patricia Elam wrote in a
>     1998 review in the Washington Post.
>
>     Ray Metoyer
>     AABJ President
>
>
>
>
> Anita Fleming-Rife
>
> I lift up mine eyes from whence cometh my help. . . .
>
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