Seeing is Believing

NEW YORK (AP) – Emmy-winning CBS News correspondent Harold Dow, who helped shape the documentary program “48 Hours” and covered the kidnapping of Patricia Hearst and the Sept. 11 attacks, has died. He was 62.

Dow died suddenly Saturday morning in New Jersey, network spokeswoman Louise Bashi said. He lived in Upper Saddle River, N.J., but it wasn’t immediately clear if he’d been at home.

via Harold Dow Tribute: The Obituary and Death Notice of Harold Dow | Legacy.com.

HOUSTON (AP) – Johnny Bailey, a record-breaking running back in the small college ranks and former NFL Pro Bowl kick returner, has died from pancreatic cancer. He was 43.

Texas A&M-Kingsville announced his death Friday. Bailey played for the Division II school from 1986-89, when it was known as Texas A&I University, and became the second college player to run for more than 6,000 yards in a career.

via Johnny Bailey Tribute: The Obituary and Death Notice of Johnny Bailey | Legacy.com.

As the Director of Sales & Recruiting at Weichert Realtors-Frankel & Giles, many have asked if this is the right time to get a real estate license. My answer is yes! If you believe the real estate stories, in the media about the current state of the real estate industry, they would make you think this is not true. However, in reality, this is the BEST time to get licensed!

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Britta Rivera is a licensed Illinois real estate broker with Weichert, Realtors® — Frankel & Giles, located in Chicago\’s South Loop location. Britta has worked in the real estate industry for the past 16 years and has been involved in launching dozens of developments in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs.

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It is with immense sorrow that we inform SoulTrackers that Al Goodman, one-third of Ray, Goodman & Brown as well as the Moments (“Love on a Two Way Street”), has died. Part of two of the most underrated soul groups of the past half century, Goodman provided the “bottom end” on hits such as “Special Lady” and “Take It To the Limit.”

via Al Goodman of Ray Goodman & Brown dies | SoulTracks – Soul Music Biographies, News and Reviews.

Seeing is Believing — While watching a documentary called “A Place of Our Own” by Filmmaker Stanley Nelson (2004), on the screen pops Henry Louis Gates Jr. speaking about a fear of being arrested.  In the film Gates says “many of us engage in actions to prevent racism from occurring.”  He goes on to explain about living in his fear of living in his neighborhood.

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The documentary “A Place of Our Own” appears to be a 2004 release.  To our surprise and purely coincidental, at post time, this week is the one year anniversary of Gates July 16 2009 arrest in Cambridge, Mass in a place of his own.  Did Gates go off on Police Sgt. James Crowley because he had already “engaged in actions to prevent racism from occurring,” but still it occurred?

Imaging that, succeeding while Black, did Gates live with a fear of living in his own home?

About A Place of Our Own

Filmmaker Stanley Nelson takes a nostalgic look at a rare phenomenon — the black-oriented middle-class resort community of Oaks Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard, where Nelson and his family summered for 40 years. Via intimate stories of other African-Americans who vacationed there, he paints a vivid portrait of a sector of society that, far from being disenfranchised, put down roots in a largely white vacation area and has remained for generations. Google more about the film |  Watch on Netflix

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