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Host of KBOO Program Africa-O-Ye!

Tony Alabi, host of KBOO radio program "Africa O-Ye" (known on the air as Firefly) died on Monday, January 24, 2011 of a stroke.

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Founder of Anctil Heating and Cooling was also heavily involved in volunteer work

Paul Joseph Anctil died peacefully at home in Portland on March 23, 2011 after a final bout with cancer. He was 75.
Anctil was the founder of Anctil Heating and Cooling, North Williams Avenue.

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Over four decades, Evelyn was an active participant in various volunteer community organizations including the Black United Front. She was a member of the Shining Star of Unity #1379 and the Mahogany Red Hatters. Evelyn could be found at marches, rallies and other cultural events that focused on Black people and what was right, just, and fair. She was a long-time community activist.


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Bishop Artice L. Wright, long time resident of Portland, Or., passed away on Feb. 6, 2011, at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center. A wake service was held Feb. 11 at Emmanuel COGIC United, and the funeral was Feb. 12, 2011 at Emmanuel.


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A funeral was held Jan. 8, 2011 at First A.M.E. Zion Church for Olivia Jackson, born on July 22, 1927, to George Cale and Phillis Washington of New Orleans Louisiana. She died Dec. 30, 2010.

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Stop Domestic Violence

Too much too soon my mother and brother entered the gates of heaven together.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Varnette Honeywood, an artist whose paintings adorned the walls of the set of "The Cosby Show" and whose strikingly colorful images depicted tender moments in Black family life, has died. She was 59.


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WASHINGTON — Ronald W. Walters, a longtime columnist for The Skanner News, a scholar at Howard University and the University of Maryland who was a leading expert on race and politics, has died. He was 72.

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Mother Teresa was born 100 years ago Thursday Aug. 26. In India there was a special mass and other celebrations ...


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Vonetta McGee, who costarred in 1970s blaxploitation movies such as "Blacula," has died at 65.


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The Skanner Foundation's 38th Annual MLK Breakfast

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