They walk with the Ancestors now...
This last year's achievements (if there were any -- nominations, please) in black history were spotty at best, but the number of significant African-Americans who passed on was a bit startling. And let's not even go into the massive celebrity funerals some of these legends had...
These are some of the incredible black people we lost in the odd 13 months from February 2005 to early March 2006.
August Wilson(*) • Bobby Short(*) • Brock Peters • Coretta Scott King(*) • Gordon Parks(*) • Ibrahim Ferrer • John H Johnson • Johnnie Cochran • Lou Rawls • Luther Vandross(*) • Nipsey Russell • Octavia Butler(*) • Ossie Davis • Richard Pryor(*) • Rosa Parks(*) • Shirley Horn
Rest in peace, y'all.(*)
These are some of the incredible black people we lost in the odd 13 months from February 2005 to early March 2006.
August Wilson(*) • Bobby Short(*) • Brock Peters • Coretta Scott King(*) • Gordon Parks(*) • Ibrahim Ferrer • John H Johnson • Johnnie Cochran • Lou Rawls • Luther Vandross(*) • Nipsey Russell • Octavia Butler(*) • Ossie Davis • Richard Pryor(*) • Rosa Parks(*) • Shirley Horn
Rest in peace, y'all.(*)