THE GIANTS WE LOST IN 2005....

[D.K.Williams]

This year has been devastating to the Black community with the giants we've lost.These are the ones that I remember:
1.Constance Baker Motley
2.Shirley Chisolm
3.Luther Vandross
4.Rosa Parks
5.Ossie Davis
6.Richard Pryor
7.Nipsey Russell
8.C.Delores Tucker
9.Johnny Cochran
10.August Wilson
11.Tyrone Davis
Please chime in if I missed anybody.

 

[SONNY]

Rick James

 

[Warndalyn]

Rick James

SONNY, Was that this year, or last year? This time goes by so fast, I can't keep up.

 

[buckwheat]

Ozzie Davis!

 

[da_caramel_diva]

SONNY, Was that this year, or last year? This time goes by so fast, I can't keep up.

2004

 

[D.K.Williams]

I forgot John H.Johnson.

 

[D-NICE]

New Orleans:bawling:

NICE

 

[PLOW DOG]

MILTON CAMBELL Aug-4-2005

RIP!!!:bawling:

 

[PLOW DOG]

JIMMY SMITH Feb-9-2005

RIP!!!

 

[JR]

JIMMY SMITH Feb-9-2005

RIP!!!

Not keyboardist/blues Jimmy Smith?

Little Milton was cool with my peoples in MS.

 

[LadyLuck13]

John H. Johnson- founder of Ebony magazine.

 

[Legend35]

:cry: It really makes you stop and wonder,.....

At this point ,....well never mind.

One of these days I'm gonna have the gutts to say what I really feel. :smh:
Tyrone Davis and Little Milton messed me up a little. I feel very sad. In the arts,... I feel that the great people who have paved the way is slowly leaving us to make it on our own and it's a lonely feeling.

 

[Donald K. Willi]

It saddens me too because sometimes I wonder if we've got the type of people left that can pick up the baton that they've handed off to us.

 

[EB]

Here are a couple more.

Vivian Malone Jones

Brock Peters

 

[D-NICE]

Esther Rolle. Dayum! Dayum! Dayum!:whine: :cry:

NICE

 

[silentrage]

The January 2006 edition of Ebony has a list near the back of the magazine.