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*Black History Month has ended, but we don’t adhere to the 28 day limit on recognition of African American excellence. Dr. Jane Cooke Wright was a pioneer in cancer treatment. She spearheaded the treatment of chemotherapy as a standard treatment for cancer patients. She died at home in Guttenberg, New Jersey at the age of [...]
*Etta James, who is terminally ill with leukemia, has been taken off a respirator and is breathing on her own again, her friend and manager said Friday. Lupe De Leon said the 73-year-old singer is soon expected to leave the intensive care unit of a hospital near her home in Riverside, east of Los Angeles. [...]
*More sad news for the legendary Etta James. The Grammy-winning singer, who has been deemed terminally ill with leukemia, has been hospitalized in California and placed on a breathing machine, her long-time manager and friend said on Friday. James, 73, best known for the blues ballad “At Last,” was taken to the hospital near her [...]
*Blues legend Etta James is said to be terminally ill and has little time left after battling leukemia, dementia and kidney failure for several years now, according to the singer’s live-in physician. Dr. Elaine James—who is not related to the 73-year-old Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer but has been providing the [...]
*Legendary R&B singer Etta James has announced her decision to retire following the release of her new album next week. The 73-year-old has been in and out of the hospital in recent months undergoing treatment for leukemia, and she was admitted to a California medical center in May after she was diagnosed with a potentially [...]
*The AP is reporting that blues singer Etta James is back in a Southern California hospital with a potentially deadly infection. Her son, Sametto James, tells the Riverside Press-Enterprise that his mother was admitted to an undisclosed hospital earlier this week for treatment of sepsis caused by a urinary tract infection. Sepsis is a potentially [...]
*It’s been over five years since the death of Nelly’s sister, who died from leukemia. Now the rapper has finally opened up about how her death affected him. In the newest and upcoming episode of VH1’s “Behind the Music” he shares a deeper more intimate side of himself and reflects on the last conversation he [...]
*A funeral for Broadway star Shannon Tavarez took place Monday (Nov. 8) in New York, one week after losing her battle with cancer. The 11-year-old, who played the young Nala in hit musical The Lion King, was unable to find a bone marrow donor in her long battle with acute myeloid leukemia and passed away [...]
*The Broadway theater where “The Lion King” is playing dimmed its lights Tuesday night in honor of Shannon Tavarez, the 11-year-old actress from the show who lost her battle with leukemia. Tavarez died Monday afternoon at Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New Hyde Park, on Long Island, of acute myelogenous leukemia, a common type of [...]
*In case you don’t know who she is, Shannon Tavarez, played the role of ‘Nala in the Broadway spectacular The Lion King. We were first introduced to her through Rihanna and Alicia Keys when they told us about this special young lady and her illness. She was battling acute myeloid leukemia and donors were few and [...]
*Shannon Tavarez, the 11-year-old Broadway singer whose fight against cancer drew the attention of many, including celebrities Alicia Keys and Rihanna, has died. The soprano from Queens, New York, who recently played Young Nala in The Lion King on Broadway, lost her battle with acute myeloid leukemia on Monday at Cohen Children’s Medical Center on [...]
*It looks like there’s going to be a big turn out for the “Home-Going” celebration for Ali “Ollie” Woodson, a former lead singer for the Temptations, who died Sunday from a form of cancer known as Leukemia. Lot’s of people have been inquiring as to when and where his “celebration” will be. Now we know. [...]
*It isn’t until some of the greats leave us that we recognize the volume of their work and the mark they have left on the world. Although, they have been with us “Right Here All Along,” its not until their passing that we recognize how blessed the world was/is by their remarkable talent. It’s [...]
*The mother of Jasmina Anema, the 6-year-old girl who died of leukemia in January, has backtracked from a Twitter post questioning Rihanna’s motives in taking up her daughter’s cause – but still says she would’ve liked a phone call from the singer when her daughter passed away. The tweet in question, posted to the official [...]
*Jasmina Anema, the 6-year-old girl whose fight against leukemia drew the support of pop star Rihanna, President Obama and thousands of others around the country, has died. “Today, January 27, at 10:55 p.m., Jasmina lost her fight against leukemia,” her mother, Thea Anema, wrote on the Caring Bridge blog she launched to keep well-wishers informed of Jasmina’s [...]
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