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. . . . > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Cheap Talk? Check out > <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman8/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39663/*http://voice.yahoo.com> > Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates.