The First Black Republican Mayor died last night following a long illness at 84. Robert Blackwell was Mayer of Highland Park, Michigan, Served Under Governor Romney, was also President of the Local UAW." ...
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"The music legend received the Reggae Icon Award posthumously Sunday during the 2008 Reggae Academy Awards. His widow, Rita Marley, accepted the award, held at Jamaica's National Indoor Sport Centre in Kingston, from Prime Minister Bruce Golding.The first-time event coincided...
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Ah, the ever acerbic rhyming wit of Mr. Blackwell: "Forget the fashion spice, wearing a skirt would suffice!" Dear Victoria makes these other four ladies look...um...nice."A decade after singling out the Spice...
Officials at the US Library of Congress has selected the Wailers album “Burnin”, as part of its 2007 collection of audio recordings to be preserved in its National Recording registry.
The album which was released in 1974, was a prelude to the groups...
Kingston, Jamaica
Palm Pictures, the independent film company owned by Chris Blackwell has acquired the rights to the Danny Glover produced, Bob Marley documentary entitled “Africa Unite".
The film captures the inaugural trip of the Marley Clan to Ethiopia, a...
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Kingston, Jamaica
Palm Pictures, the independent film company owned by Chris Blackwell has acquired the rights to the Danny Glover produced, Bob Marley documentary entitled “Africa Unite".
The film captures the inaugural trip of the Marley Clan to Ethiopia, a...
Amidst a very possible lawsuit from the Marley Estate, U.S Cellular provider Verizon Wireless has decided to continue the Bob Marley Ringtone Campaign.
In an associated press report on Friday, Verizon spokesperson, Nancy Stark stated "''This is really between...
"A MAN from Northamptonshire who was falsely accused of rape has said a law which prevents his accuser's name being revealed has "failed" men like him.
Warren Blackwell, of Woodford Halse, was wrongly found guilty of indecently assaulting a woman who turned out to be a serial...
Four outstanding
design teams have been selected as finalists to compete in Stage II of
the international competition to revitalize Nathan Phillips Square. The
four teams short-listed by the competition jury to proceed to Stage II
of the competition are:
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"In each case the tallied outcomes favored the incumbent, George W. Bush. The odds for such an occurrence is one in 250 million for this to have occurred by chance."
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