Black Wealth and All Else Black and Women's History New York Global.Biz Feb/Mar. 2020

REMEMBER THEM
Her spell bounding literatary
depiction of Blacks, especially
Black women made her among
the most sought after best -
selling icon authofs world-wide
October 2019, at 84, fame, fortune,
exquisite, yet resilient, best
describes Diahann Carroll, aka Carol
Diann Johnson's legacy. This Bronx
native, raised in Harlem, honed her
skills and talents at New York's Arts
and Music High School, with
classmate, Billy Dee Williams. At 15,
she became an Ebony Magazine
model.
By 19, showbiz summoned
brilliant Diahann, despite disrupting
her NYU college studies, yet winning
a $1,000 top prize for her Why Was I
Born song renditions; performing in
nightclubs, radio, tv and film. Her
show biz career solidified with
Carmen Jones and House of Flower's
Broadway musical roles.
Garbed in $15,000 gowns,
Diahann starred in an inter-racial
romantic musical written for her. A
few years later she was Porgy and
Bess' Broadway musical actress.
1963, Diahann won a Tony Award
for Broadway's No Strings musical;
1990's Golden Globe's Best TV Star
Award for Julia. Star-studded Emmy
Award nominations arrived for her
Grey's Anatomy, Julia, A Different,
World, Naked City and The Sweetest
Gift tv roles; NAACPs Image Award
for Claudine, plus four more annual
NAACP nominations; a Best Actress
Academy Award nominee for
Claudine; 2009s Essence Magazine's
Honoree and Black Reel Award for
her Sally Hemings role.
Oct. 2019 - Age 69, Elijah Cummings.
was Baltimore's 7th District's
Democrat HR U.S.Congressman
whose ' respected voice of dignity,
wisdom, compassion, yet
courageous leadership, exceeded
two decades. Previously, he was
Maryland's first African-American
Speaker Pro-tem, at Maryland's HR.
As the House of Oversight and
Reform Committee Chair, Elijah was
among four Democrats handling
45th U.S. President Trump's
impeachment.
His memorial included President
Obama's arousing eulogies among
others and several Congressional
leaders' speeches. Hillary Clinton's
citing Elijah's spiritual and wisdom
similarity to Prophet Elijah in the
Bible raised the bar. Trey Gowdy
Republican HR described Cummings,
as Congress most eloquent as voice
speaker.
President Trump's scathing viral
Twitter attacks against Cummings
last summer, transformed into his "I
got to see first hand the strength,
passion, and wisdom of this political
leader and voice on so many fronts,
they will be very hard, if not
possible, to replace." condolences.
Trump proclaimed U.S flags to
be flown half-staff at the White
House, all U.S. and foreign venues
government buildings, public places,
military, embassies, consular
buildings, naval stations, and
vessels. Elijah's body ceremoniously
laid in the state's Capitol Rotunda,
His funeral was held at Maryland's
New Promise Baptist church.
October 2019 - Age 90, HR
Democrat Congressman John
Conyers, for Detroit, Michigan's
#1 District, who shortly after Dr.
Martin Luther King's assassination
sponsored and advocated his Dr.
King's Birthday's National Holiday
bill, during many of his 23 reelections,
before Dr. King's
holiday became law and years
before Conyers became Dean of
HR. Conyers enlisted in the
National Guard and U.S. Army
after his father discouraged
Conyers' jazz musician career.
Back from the Korean War,
scholarly Conyers received his
Wayne Univ. law degree shortly
after his BA Sworn in 1965, He
became a House Judicial
Committee member during his
first year. Yet, in 1969, as one of
13 Black Congressional Caucus
founders, Conyer's faced
mounting challenges - GMs
massive lay-offs and Detroit's
rioting economic devastation.
Dapper attired Conyers was
the longest-serving Congressional
Black Caucus member and HRs
longest-serving Congressional
leader since President Lyndon B.
Johnson.
Since 1989 Conyers and
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson,
frequently resubmitted their HR
40 Commission for Studies of
Proposals for Reparations, revised
as The Commission to Study and
Develop Reparation Proposals for
African- Americans Act.
Nov. 2019 Super Centenarium,
Alelia Murphy, the World's oldest
human was 114 years old. Born
in North Carolina, she is that
college grad, who married in
Furd Murphy in 1926 migrating
to Harlem. Rose and Frederick
are their two children. She was
employed as seamstress, baker
and top Fuller Brush sales rep.
She frequently danced at
Harlem's Savoy ballroom and
dancing was her favorite hobby.
Sep. 2014, Age 94, Lieutenant
Col Lilamae Dixon-Smith, and
RN 1944 -1977 also Japanese
hospital supervisor; NYGBs
publishers aunt, who provided
such sincere inspirational
nurturing and concern for her
nieces and nephews .
Nov. 2018 Dazzling Kim Porter
affectionately, the glamor industry's
natural beauty model, actress and
amazing mother of now age 16, son,
Quincy Brown, and son of her
divorced husband, AL B. Sure, aka
Albert Brown, music artist, producer,
and actor, and currently, age 15,
twins by music and business
magnate Sean Combs, aka, Diddy
Combs.
April 2019 John D Singleton an
American film director,
screenwriter, producer, and actor
was best known for directing Boyz n
Hood. He was the youngest person
ever been nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Director.
August 6, 2019,. Princeton
University Professor, Tony
Morrison's 83 years included
being an rare recipient of the
Pulitizer, Nobel Peace, Medal of
Freedom among literary awards.
Dec. 1997, Age 71, Rosetta
Tyus, my loving mother, of
five children, regarded as my
other guardian angel,
critically and miraculously
saved my life at 12 years old.
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