by:  Lynn Green

I am a firm believer of the fact that love is hard to find and folks should not discriminate based on racial background. Many have heard of the Loving case. Mildred and Richard Loving, back in 1967 challenged the [then] racist state of Virginia for their right to legally marry each other, and they won. She has passed away and may God rest her soul:

Mildred Loving, a black woman whose challenge to Virginia’s ban on interracial marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling striking down such laws nationwide, has died, her daughter said Monday.

Peggy Fortune said Loving, 68, died Friday at her home in rural Milford. She did not disclose the cause of death.

Loving and her white husband, Richard, changed history in 1967 when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld their right to marry. The ruling struck down laws banning racially mixed marriages in at least 17 states.

They had married in Washington in 1958, when she was 18. Returning to their Virginia hometown, they were arrested within weeks and convicted on charges of “cohabiting as man and wife, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth,” according to their indictments.

The two of them eventually won their case, went on to have three children and Richard Loving died in 1975 in a car accident.

In a rare interview with The Associated Press last June, Loving said she wasn’t trying to change history _ she was just a girl who once fell in love with a boy.

“It wasn’t my doing,” Loving said. “It was God’s work.”

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Bishop Lewis Stallworth, Sr. of Stockton, CA has passed away. His most known offspring is his daughter, Wanda Davis Turner who preached the famous “Sex Traps” sermon which became popular years ago.

GO HERE to read about his life

Thanks very much to T. Gordon for informing us of his passing

I had no idea that Bob Marley’s mother was still alive. She just passed away and may God rest her soul.

Cedella Booker, the mother of Jamaican music legend Bob Marley, has died, a family spokesman said Wednesday. She was 81. Booker died in her sleep Tuesday night at her home in Miami, apparently from natural causes, spokesman Jerome Hamilton said.

Booker, a Jamaica native, was 18 when she married Norval Marley, a British man 32 years her senior. Their son brought Jamaican reggae music to international prominence, becoming its international image. Bob Marley died in Miami of a brain tumor in 1981 at age 36.

“Mrs. Booker was the matriarch of a movement so powerful that the mystical qualities of the Marley musical legacy remain strong and potent,” Jamaica Information Minister Olivia Grange said.

After Norval Marley died in 1955, Booker married an American man and settled in Delaware. She wrote two biographies of her famous son and recorded two albums, “Awake Zion!” and “Smilin’ Island of Song.”

“She was a star in her own right,” Jamaica Prime Minister Bruce Golding said in a statement. “Her life was one of hardship, struggle and eventual fulfillment, and through it all, she exuded hope, strength and confidence.”

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Her son Bob was very talented. My favorite Marley song is Waiting in Vain

Hat tip to Evangelist ET for story link

    Charlton Heston has died. I wish peace to his family and pray that the Lord rests his soul.

PRESS HERE  for information about his life

Many people don’t realize that he was also a civil rights advocate and great speaker with a beautiful voice.

PRESS HERE for one of his speeches on the topic of cultural wars and civil rights.

My heart goes out to the entire LeVert family as the awful news of Sean LeVert fills the airwaves. The family, I’m certain, is just getting over the death of Gerald and now this.

Singer Sean Levert, a third of the 1980s R&B trio LeVert and son of lead O’Jays singer Eddie Levert, has died after falling ill while serving a jail term. He was 39.

Levert was sent to the Cuyahoga County jail last week for failing to pay child support. He died at Lutheran Hospital in Cleveland late Sunday, less than an hour after he was taken there from the jail, said coroner Frank Miller. An autopsy was planned, he said.

His brother Gerald Levert, who had success as a solo artist after leaving their trio died in 2006 at age 40 of an accidental mix of prescription and over-the-counter drugs.

The brothers had formed LeVert in the 1980s with childhood friend Marc Gordon. Their hits included and “Baby I’m Ready,” “(Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop) Goes My Mind” and “Casanova.”

“Casanova” was nominated for a Grammy in 1988 for best R&B performance by a duo or group with vocal. It was also nominated for best R&B song.

At Gerald Levert’s funeral service in November 2006, Sean Levert and his father performed “Dance With My Father” and personalized the words for Gerald. The elder Levert’s group, the O’Jays, was known for such smash hits as “Back Stabbers” and “Love Train.”

Sean Levert found a new third partner last year and was trying to revive LeVert.

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  The world’s oldest person died yesterday. And wasn’t she beautiful!

Arbella Perkins Ewings blew out all 114 candles on her birthday cake on March 13 and quietly took part in the celebration that comes with being the third-oldest person in the world.

There was a proclamation from Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, speeches by friends and family, TV cameras and a roomful of well-wishers.

Ms. Ewings died Saturday at Grace Presbyterian Village.

But the people who knew the South Dallas woman as “Aunt Bell” could see that her heart wasn’t in the celebration. Her words often did not match the festive occasion, although she was alert and greeting most people by name – even neighbors she had not seen in a long time.

Throughout the party, she warned her guests that she wasn’t going to last much longer.

On Saturday, nine days after the birthday celebration, Mrs. Ewings died at Grace Presbyterian Village, a retirement community where she had lived for almost a year. Officials said she had stopped eating and then refused to get out of bed during the last three or four days.

“She was telling everyone, ‘It’s time to meet my maker,’ ” said Sabrina Porter, executive director of Grace Presbyterian. “She died very peacefully about noon Saturday. It was a blessing that she went so peacefully.”

WOW! Isn’t God good? She made the determination that it was time for her to meet the Lord and she stopped eating and simply went Home to be with Jesus. Wow…

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    Most have heard of William Buckley. He died today. May he RIP.

An editor, columnist and TV host, he also wrote more than 50 books and was for many years a substantial influence on conservative thought.

Mr Buckley was found dead in the study of his home in Stamford, Connecticut, “with his boots on”, his son said.

The cause of his death is unknown, but an assistant to Mr Buckley said that he had been suffering from emphysema.

Even those who disliked his politics acknowledged that William Buckley was dedicated to the craft of writing.

While becoming a serious and influential political thinker, he seemed at times to cultivate the manner of an old-fashioned dandy.

As a young man he worked briefly for the CIA but he really started to count in US public life when in 1955 he founded National Review magazine.

The magazine did much to give shape to conservative thought in America.

National Review became an influence on Reaganite politics and contributed to the rise of the US neo-conservative movement.

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Sometimes I wonder about these so-called nursing homes out here. Do they truly care about the elderly of our society. What excuse is there for what happened to Joe Louis’ sister?

The 92-year-old sister of boxing great Joe Louis was found frozen to death outside her apartment at an assisted-living center, authorities said.

Wreaths decorate Joe Louis’ grave at Arlington National Cemetery in 2006, the 25th anniversary of his death.

The body of Vunies High, who had Alzheimer’s disease, was found Monday outside The Heatherwood retirement complex in Southfield, a Detroit suburb, said Capt. Tom Colombo of Southfield emergency medical services.

High, who spent 25 years as a teacher and counselor for Detroit Public Schools, was last seen Sunday.

This is some of the saddest news. Hopefully she has a family that can sue.

When she was found, she was dressed only in pajamas and was wearing one shoe, with the other lying nearby.

An autopsy shows she died of hypothermia.

WHY did the police not find that woman? Did anyone report her missing? WHY was she allowed out of the nursing home? This is just tragic.

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He was president of the Church - better known as the Mormons - for 13 years.The post is held for life, and Hinckley lived to become the oldest ever president, seeing church membership expand to 13 million people.His death comes amid increased public scrutiny of the Church, as one of its members, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, runs for US president.Based in Utah, half of the LDS membership is now drawn from outside the United States.By tradition, a new Church president must be ordained within days on a unanimous vote of the Council of the Twelve Apostles, which is likely to wait until after his funeral.The current most long-serving apostle is Thomas Monson, aged 80, The Associated Press reports.Hinckley died of complications arising from old age, Church spokesman Mike Otterson said.

“His life was a true testament of service, and he had an abiding love for others,” said Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, a fellow Mormon.

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I am not here to judge Gordon Hinckley. That’s God’s job. And I don’t have a Heaven nor hell to put anyone in, so I won’t even offend God by saying where Gordon Hinckley is at this moment.  That’s not my place.  That’s God’s place.

What I will say is that the Mormons,  have some peculiar belief systems that stand totally outside and against the teachings of Jesus Christ and Christianity. Check this cartoon which explains the Mormon belief system (which is so strange that even Mormons try to keep secret).

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One game I never took the time to learn to play is Chess. Maybe this year will be the year that I learn, huh? Well, the troubled American chess master, Bobby Fischer is dead. (He was born an American but renounced his citizenship and moved to Iceland). He died at 64, which is awfully young! Given his history of peculiar behavior, I hope it was not suicide:

Bobby Fischer, the reclusive American chess master who became a Cold War icon when he dethroned the Soviet Union’s Boris Spassky as world champion in 1972, has died. He was 64. Fischer died Thursday in a Reykjavik hospital, his spokesman, Gardar Sverrisson, said. There was no immediate word on the cause of death. Born in Chicago and raised in Brooklyn, Fischer was a U.S. chess champion at 14 and a grand master at 15. He beat Spassky in a series of games in Reykjavik to claim America’s first world chess championship in more than a century. But his reputation as a genius of chess soon was eclipsed by his idiosyncrasies. A few years after the Spassky match, he forfeited the title to another Soviet, Anatoly Karpov, when he refused to defend it. He dropped out of competitive chess and largely out of view, emerging occasionally to make erratic and often anti-Semitic comments. Fischer, whose mother was Jewish, once accused “the Jew-controlled U.S. government” of ruining his life. Read remainder of story HERE