“The most disrespected person in America is the Black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the Black woman. The most neglected person in America is the Black woman.”
—Malcolm X 🖤🙏🏿
“The most disrespected person in America is the Black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the Black woman. The most neglected person in America is the Black woman.”
—Malcolm X 🖤🙏🏿
Aww, man. #RIP "Steve Lawrence, a Grammy-winning singer and half of the pop duo Steve and Eydie, has died.
Lawrence died Thursday from complications due to Alzheimer’s disease, a publicist confirmed in a statement shared with The Times. He was 88." https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2024-03-07/steve-lawrence-obit
😢#RIP “Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries “Roots,” has died. He was 87.
Gossett’s nephew told The Associated Press that the actor died Thursday night in Santa Monica, California. No cause of death was revealed.”
Noooo! 😭 #RIP Joe Flaherty, star of 'SCTV' and 'Freaks and Geeks,' dies at 82
#RIP Joe Lieberman, independent four-term U.S. senator from Connecticut who was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2000, becoming the first Jewish candidate on the national ticket of a major party, died March 27 in New York City. He was 82.
The cause was complications from a fall, his family said in a statement.”
ON KURT COBAIN, from @BlackSocialists@Twitter.com, an oldie but goodie.
Courtney Love published his journals that he kept in spiral bound notebooks. the book may be out of print but the copy i read showed how he was unschooling himself in feminism, antiracism, anticolonialism but most interesting, capital S and A socialism and anarchism.
PASTEBIN of handwritten notes:
https://pastebin.com/LQ677AUB
WIKIPEDIA about the Journals
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journals_(Cobain)
we lost a true ally.
#RIP Dickey Betts, co-founder of the Allman Brothers Band, dead at 80
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/18/entertainment/dickey-betts-death?cid=ios_app
#RIP Whitey Herzog, Hall of Fame manager who led St. Louis Cardinals to 3 pennants, dies at 92 https://breaking.iavian.net/article/362247
Awww. #RIP Former Florida Sen. Bob Graham, who chaired the Intelligence Committee following the 2001 terrorist attacks and opposed the Iraq invasion, has died. He was 87.
#RIP Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America’s longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for nearly seven years, has died at 76.
Damn. #RIP Award-winning actor Dabney Coleman -- who starred in hit movies such as Melvin and Howard, 9 to 5, On Golden Pond, and Tootsie -- has reportedly passed away at the age of 92.
He won an Emmy in 1987 for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special for his role Sworn to Silence, but was nominated six times. He also won a Golden Globe Award. https://local12.com/news/entertainment/report-actor-dabney-coleman-passes-away-dead-death-age-92-melvin-howard-on-golden-pond-tootsie-movies-film-television-emmy-award
#RIP Duane Eddy, Whose Twang Changed Rock ’n’ Roll, Dies at 86
A self-taught electric guitar virtuoso, he influenced a generation of musicians. One of them, John Fogerty, called him rock’s first guitar god.
#RIP Pete McCloskey, a California congressman who raised a flag of rebellion against President Richard M. Nixon’s war policies in Vietnam with a spirited but futile race for the Republican presidential nomination in 1972, died on Wednesday at his home in Winters, Calif., west of Sacramento. He was 96.
#RIP Actor Bernard Hill, best known for roles in Titanic and Lord of the Rings, has died aged 79.
He played Captain Edward Smith in the 1997 Oscar-winning film and won 11 Academy Awards throughout his acting career.
RIP, Steve Albini. He did an "Invisible Jukebox" for The Wire in 1994, and they've made it publicly available as a memorial:
https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/the-portal/invisible-jukebox-steve-albini
I think it's wonderful. And I hope he and Neil Kulkarni are swapping stories about music someplace in the great beyond.
Aww. #RIP Roger Corman, the Oscar-winning “King of the Bs” who helped turn out such low-budget classics as “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Attack of the Crab Monsters” and gave many of Hollywood’s most famous actors and directors early breaks, has died. He was 98.
#RIP Richard M. Sherman, who fueled Disney charm in 'Mary Poppins' and 'It's a Small World,' dies at 95 https://apnews.com/article/19bb30ab3af649c480153133c1faa307
#RIP Bill Walton, the dominant NBA big man who won three college titles and two NBA championships who later enjoyed a successful broadcasting career, has died, the NBA announced on Monday. He was 71.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-walton-dies-nba-hall-of-famer-won-2-championships-age-71/
#RIP Morgan Spurlock, the filmmaker behind the award-winning documentary "Super Size Me," died from cancer complications, his family announced on Friday.
Spurlock died Thursday, according to his family. He was 53 years old.
Los Angeles Lakers player and executive Jerry West died today at age 86. He was an Olympic gold winner and became a key figure in the NBA in many ways, not least as the inspiration for its logo. Designer Alan Siegel said he based the logo on a photo of West's perfect dribbling form. "It's the easiest job I ever had," Siegel told CNN Sports, which has the full story plus a tribute to West.
#RIP Jerry West, Lakers legend and architect of ‘Showtime’ era, dies at 86 https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2024-06-12/jerry-west-lakers-showtime-dead
Awww!! 😭
#RIP Baseball legend Willie Mays has died, the San Francisco Giants announced on Tuesday night.
"It is with great sadness that we announce that San Francisco Giants Legend and Hall of Famer Willie Mays passed away peacefully this afternoon at the age of 93," the team posted.
Omg.
#RIP Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90
https://apnews.com/article/6d3800130ef4e67d761f96b328f7c263
Rest in Power, Willie Mays. The Say Hey Kid has passed away at 93.
The greatest ever. ⚾️
A Giant legend. #SayHey #RIP #WillieMays #SFGiants #NYGiants
Nooo. 😭
#RIP Donald Sutherland, whose acting career spanned six decades including highly acclaimed films such as Don’t Look Now, M*A*S*H and The Hunger Games, has died aged 88.
He died in Miami after a long illness, confirmed by his representatives.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/jun/20/actor-donald-sutherland-dies-hunger-games-dont-look-now?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other