Tracy L. Bell, Author/Host
Michael Jackson was 50 years old when he died of a drug overdose two years ago today.
Jackson’s oldest son, Prince, 14 and his sister Paris, 13, are doing different charitable events to commemorate Jackson’s memory. The two were spotted on the eve of the 2nd anniversary of Jackson’s death going to a movie.
In the meantime, Michael Jackson’s personal physician Conrad Murray is currently on trial for causing the singer’s death.
Yesterday, U.S. president Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama attended a memorial service in Tucson, AZ. Where the president visited Congresswoman Gifford in the hospital and remembered the 6 people killed, and 14 wounded during a Jan. 8 shooting spree where Gifford greeted her constituents on Saturday.
“Gabby opened her eyes for the first time,” Obama announced to thunderous applause. Obama was referring to Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford’s, 40, who was shot in the head during an assassination attempt.
“What we can’t do is use this tragedy as one more occasion to turn on one another,” said Obama.
President Obama praised Daniel Hernandez for aiding Gifford after the shooting. The 20-year-old intern has only worked for Gifford for 5 days and assisted the congresswoman with his first aid skills after she was shot.
Obama concluded his emotional speech by remembering 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green: here was a young girl who was just becoming aware of our democracy; just beginning to understand the obligations of citizenship; just starting to glimpse the fact that someday she too might play a part in shaping her nation’s future. She had been elected to her student council; she saw public service as something exciting, something hopeful. She was off to meet her congresswoman, someone she was sure was good and important and might be a role model. She saw all this through the eyes of a child, undimmed by the cynicism or vitriol that we adults all too often just take for granted.
I want us to live up to her expectations. I want our democracy to be as good as she imagined it. All of us – we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children’s expectations.
Dressed in white, hundreds of close friends and family gathered at Forest Lawn cemetery on yesterday to remember R&B superstar, Teena Marie.
The 54 year-old singer and producer, died December 26, in her Pasadena home, but no signs of trauma were found according to investigators.
Stars in attendance were:
Queen Latifah (who looks very sloppy in this picture)
Flex Alexander (One on One) and his wife Shaneice.
Smokey Robinson and his wife.
Stevie Wonder…
And Motown Founder, Berry Gordy (seen here hugging Teena Marie’s publicist Lyn Jeter).
Marie is survived by her 19-year-old daughter Alia Rose, also a singer who performs under the name, Rose Le Beau. Rose recently tweeted these heartfelt words to her mother: “I will make you proud until we meet again, I love you @MsTeenaMarie.”
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