http://www.panachereport....bsDied.htm

Many of these people I had no idea had passed on.

Holy shit I didn't know this kid died.


He was on the Cosby show. I didn't know the dude that played Michael in the Jacksons movie was gone too.

wow....looks like the entire cast of What's Happening is gone

here is another list http://www.dead-celeb.com/

i thought the Taylor Mitchell story was quite odd.....coyotes?


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I remember someone posting this a few months ago, lol
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musicjunky318 said:

You didn't?

I knew almost all of them had died except the first post: Damian Dame!

Cinnie said:

I learned through MusicChoice in 2004, lol

this again? most of them were barely even famous. what kind of fanfare would you expect?

Cinnie said:

Really, Cinnie?

This is another perennial favorite thread here on the Org.

AlexdeParis said:

But I just assumed they stopped making music for other reasons, like Surface!

AlexdeParis said:

It's like a staple around here. I'm surprised any of you would say in 2009 you were shocked this person died. I read Jet magazine so I been knew about Merlin Santana and 'em.

They weren't big time celebrities anyway. That's why they died without "fanfare". Rather die quietly than with flowers around me so deep I can't smell 'em, lol

Cinnie said:

Cinnie you mean to tell me you hadn't seen that site before? Or this thread about it? Seriously? lol

Timmy84 said:

A few uhh technical difficulties on my end

Cinnie said:

Oh. lol
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wait, why is Bernie Mac on the list?

InsatiableCream said:

Bernie died with no fanfare? Are they serious? lol

Timmy84 said:

it was all over the news

why is this race specified ?

errant said:

Uh, uh!

Dewrede said:

you sound white.

InsatiableCream said:

It sure was.
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Dewrede said:

Because more often than not the press in the USA/States don't acknowledge the deaths of well known African- Americans unless they have gone "mainstream".

Dewrede said:

It's a black website (looks to be.)

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Yeah it's a black entertainment website.

The father of Avery Brooks (Captain Ben Sisko) dies with little fanfare, I don't know weather he was a celeb or not.

Cinnie said:

just trying to say that everything in the US seems to be about race ;black/white
and that i wish it wasn't
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Great Site! I check it like once a month. Ive always found it odd that no one knows how Wayne Cooper from Cameo died. They're saying either in a plane crash in 1981 or of AIDS in 1984. How is it possible know one know how or when he died, but they know he's dead? Thats a little eerie lol

TD3 said:

that is sad and wrong

Timmy84 said:

ok

TD3 said:

Well, someone froma sitcom is not a huge megastar.

People like Luther Vandross, who was never in the super league, still had his own funeral and SW sang.

Also I can only assume how many racists there are in the USA who don't like to report about dead blacks.

BUT

After all, it's popularity and the people who decide who's death is important or not. Talent, not race should be the reason for coverage.