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Saturday Night Music, March 6, 2010: Ramsey Lewis with Earth, Wind & Fire, “Sun Goddess,” 1974

• March 6, 2010 • Comments Off on Saturday Night Music, March 6, 2010: Ramsey Lewis with Earth, Wind & Fire, “Sun Goddess,” 1974

Posted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Earth Wind and Fire, Music, Ramsey Lewis
Tags: "Sun Goddess", African Americans, “Way-oh way-ay oh bop-bop way-oh.”, Blacks, Columbia Records, Donald Myrick, Drummer, Earth Wind and Fire, Fender Rhodes, Jazz, Johnny Mathis, Maurice White, Mizell Brothers, Philip Bailey, Ramsey Lewis, RIAA Gold, Saxophone, The Seventies, Verdine White


Drummer Clyde Stubblefield Suffers Kidney Failure; Needs a Kidney Transplant

• June 19, 2009 • 2 Comments

Posted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Health, Music
Tags: "Funky Drummer", Bootsy Collins, Clyde Stubblefield, Drummer, Funk Drummer, Funk Drumming, Funksters, James Brown, John "Jabo" Starks, Kidney Failure, Kidney Transplant, Maceo Parker, Madison WI


Drummer Uriel Jones, Motown Funk Brother, Dies at 74

• March 26, 2009 • Comments Off on Drummer Uriel Jones, Motown Funk Brother, Dies at 74

Posted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, History, Music
Tags: Allen Slutsky, Art Blakey, Berry Gordy, Bob Babbitt, Dearborn MI, Detroit, Drummer, Funk Brothers, Los Angeles, Motown, Paul Justman, Standing in The Shadows of Motown, The Funk Brothers, Uriel Jones


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    Southern California residents are beginning to accept that lush lawns are unsustainable when reservoirs and rivers run low in a drought era.
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    The former New York mayor has been told that he is a target in the investigation concerning whether Donald J. Trump and his associates tried to illegally influence the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.
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    Jesuits established a trust to answer for their history of enslaving Black people. But frustrated descendants tell Rome the order is “not delivering in deed.”
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    As the legal saga over the 2018 school shooting in Florida heads to a close, students who spoke out about gun violence have encouraged engagement and changed the national debate.
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    Former Vice President Mike Pence also said he would consider talking to the Jan. 6 committee if he were “summoned to testify.”
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    Among other flaws, the public guidance during the coronavirus pandemic was “confusing and overwhelming,” the agency said.
  • ‘Now the real work begins’: Liz Cheney lost her election but vows to dig deeper into the Jan. 6 mission. August 17, 2022
    Ms. Cheney vowed to use her post on the House committee investigating Jan. 6 to continue prosecuting the public case against former President Donald J. Trump.

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    Guardian, BBC and Times seek release of documents about policy of sending asylum seekers abroadA Foreign Office official raised concerns about plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, citing state surveillance, arbitrary detention, torture and killings by the country’s government, the high court has heard.The court has been asked to consider an application by […]
  • Kenya opposition leader rejects election result as ‘null and void’ August 16, 2022
    Raila Odinga’s comments on poll he was declared to have lost come after some officials disown final tallyThe Kenyan opposition leader, Raila Odinga, has rejected as “null and void” the result of a presidential election that he was declared to have lost, and pledged to challenge the outcome with “all constitutional and legal options”.Odinga said he would chan […]
  • William Ruto declared winner of Kenya presidential election amid dispute August 15, 2022
    Electoral commission chair declares deputy president winner of tight race as other senior officials disown resultsWilliam Ruto has been declared the winner of Kenya’s presidential election, amid last-minute chaos as four senior election officials denounced the week-long count and disowned the result.Official results showed that Ruto, the current deputy presi […]
  • At least 41 people killed in Egypt church fire, say officials August 14, 2022
    Security sources say majority of dead are children after blaze breaks out at Coptic Abu Sifin church in GizaA fire sparked by an electrical fault at a packed church in a working-class district of Greater Cairo has killed at least 41 people and injured another 45, Egyptian officials have said.About 5,000 people had gathered at the Coptic Abu Sifin church in I […]
  • Police chief quit after abuse by British colonial troops in Kenya covered up August 14, 2022
    Documentary reveals how Britain was not only involved in rape and torture but tried to suppress evidenceA former police commissioner resigned after attempts to expose rape and torture by British colonial forces in Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising were covered up, a documentary shows.During the 1950s, Britain fought a war in Kenya against the Mau Mau, a move […]
  • Mali’s prime minister, Choguel Maïga, ‘ordered to rest’ by doctor August 13, 2022
    Politician’s office says move comes after ‘intense exertion’, while adviser denies reports of a strokeThe prime minister of Mali, Choguel Maïga, has been ordered by his doctor to rest after months of intense exertion, his office said on Saturday, while an adviser denied media reports that he had been hospitalised after having a stroke.“After 14 months of wor […]
  • US issues western water cuts as drought leaves Colorado River near ‘tipping point’ August 17, 2022
    Arizona, Nevada and Mexico affected as federal government steps in after states failed to reach agreementAfter western US states failed to reach agreements to reduce water use from the beleaguered Colorado River, the federal government stepped in on Tuesday, issuing cuts that will affect two states and Mexico.Officials with the Bureau of Reclamation declared […]
  • Journalist found dead in northern Mexico in bloody year for media August 16, 2022
    Body of Juan Arjón López, 14th journalist to be killed in Mexico in 2022, identified by tattoos in border city of San Luis Río ColoradoAn independent journalist has been found dead in northern Mexico, bringing to 14 the number of reporters and media workers killed so far this year, which has been one of the deadliest ever for the profession.Prosecutors in th […]

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  • Liz Cheney: Trump critic blasts Republican 'personality cult' after defeat August 17, 2022
    Liz Cheney criticises the former president after losing to a Trump-backed candidate in Wyoming.
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    A local hospital says five children, including a seven-year-old, are among those injured.
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    She largely left the spotlight before the 2016 election of Donald Trump, who has become her key ally.
  • Israel and Germany condemn Palestinian leader's '50 Holocausts' claim August 17, 2022
    Israeli and German leaders express outrage after Mahmoud Abbas accuses Israel of "50 Holocausts".
  • Outrage as India rapists leave jail to hero's welcome August 17, 2022
    Eleven Hindu men convicted for her gang-rape and the murder of her family members have been freed.
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    Ten people are injured, three seriously, as a train is caught up in a wildfire in eastern Spain.
  • Water levels on Italy's Lake Garda at 15-year low August 17, 2022
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