Dorothy Height's funeral service live coverage

[malaise]

http://www.thegrio.com/news/watch-live-dorothy-height-funeral.php

[malaise]

1. Her nephew is speaking now

coming up President Obama, Maya Angelou, Bill Cosby's wife, etc.

[MrsBrady]

2. thanks n/t

[malaise]

3. Why does CNN believe that their snipets of her life

would be better than covering the service live. I detest M$Greedia more and more daily. Bill Cosby's wife has a lovely voice.

[goclark]

8. Keep kicked please

[malaise]

9. I see lots of Democrats but can't find one

ReTHUG here.
Sorry Obama she won't be in those Texas history books.

[Captain Hilts]

15. Sad to say, she's in very few history books. The FDR Library photo page

has a photograph of her with Mrs. Roosevelt labelled "Mary McLeod Bethune." Really. No kidding.

How many little girls you know named 'Rosa', 'Coretta', 'Dorothy', 'Mary McLeod' or 'Shirley'?

How many little boys named 'Martin' or 'Malcolm'? A whole lot more than little girls named for female heroes.

[MrsBrady]

4. i found the order of service

http://www.nationalcathedral.org/pdfs/Height20100429.pdf

[malaise]

6. Excellent

Thanks - that harp in the background was wonderful

[malaise]

10. Denyce Graves has a stunning voice

She's younger than her voice

[Captain Hilts]

13. She's our Home Girl and

is the 'Official Soprano' of the Tony Kornheiser radio show. She's called in and sung.

She's kind of been excluded from events sponsored by President Obama and no one knows why. She really wanted to sing at the inauguration, for example.

[MrsBrady]

35. OMG...

I just went to her website.

gorgeous and amazing!

[goclark]

22. Thanks for the link, I didn't see it from the beginning

I just happened to be watching TV One, one of my favorite cable stations.

Roland Martin was outstanding, simply outstanding, in doing the coverage.

[goclark]

5. Bill Cosby 's wife speaking now

Beautiful Service full coverage on TV One.

TV One is the best for bringing news about African American events.

http://tvoneblogs.com/roland/washington-watch-with-roland-martin/dorothy-height-funeral-details-1634.htm

[malaise]

7. Pres now - coverage on GEM$NBC and CNN n/t

[malaise]

11. I didn't know Maya Angelou

was using a wheelchair. Was she/is she ill?

[Captain Hilts]

12. Kick. nt

[malaise]

14. Where are the ReTHUGS

I still don't see one. Hillary is in the middle of the discussions

[Captain Hilts]

16. I wish I had cable right now. nt

[malaise]

17. Cable?

They only showed Obama's eulogy

We watched here - no doubt it will be on C Span tonight and you can watch on line. Your home girl has a lovely voice.
http://www.thegrio.com/news/watch-live-dorothy-height-funeral.php

[goclark]

18. I met Dorothy Height

I was attending a Luncheon at a hotel in downtown Los Angeles,several years ago.

Dorothy Height was the main speaker.

During Lunch, I left my seat to go to the Lady's Room.

As I was walking up the hallway, I realized that the elegant Hero was being wheeled to the Lady's Room.

I arrived at the door first and held the door for her.

She gave a gracious Thank You.

I replied, "Dr. Height, you have opened many doors for our People, I am honored to open this door for You."

What an American Hero she was ~ :cry:

[malaise]

19. I met her at my great aunt's home in New York

decades ago.

[goclark]

20. What a lady ~ she had a way of inspiring

others to want to do more in the area of Civil rights.

She must have sprinkled pixie dust on both of us because we are "Tigers for Civil Rights." :hug:

[malaise]

21. Hey my grandparents were Garveyites

so I come from a long line of progressives. I also knew Shirley Chisholm. :hug:

[Captain Hilts]

28. Wow! How cool is that!

[Captain Hilts]

27. That is awesome!

[Captain Hilts]

26. So cool! I helped Molly Yard get a cab once. She was very weak and on her own. nt

[goclark]

33. K

[malaise]

25. Michael Steele was there

One found. :D

[goclark]

34. I just realized you were not kidding LOL

[goclark]

30. ? Hillary was at the Memorial - end of the front row

She looks wonderful!

[goclark]

23. I was shocked too ~ she also looked frail.

[malaise]

24. I'm suspecting that she had a stroke

Her speech was slurred.
One of these days I'll give you my dramatic encounter with Maya at a conference here in Jamaica. I was the co-ordinator. :D

[goclark]

29. I tried to google it and it was not coming up

Every souce that I saw indicated she "was in a wheel chair" but not the cause.

Bless her -- a national treasure as well.

Can't wait to see your post on Maya - wow!
Just found this but sill not specific...
Excellent link...
http://www.oaoa.com/articles/bodytext-45795-class-angelou.html

[goclark]

37. I read from a google that in 2008 she had knee problems and

was in a wheel chair.

[Tx4obama]

31. on another note ....

I know that many leaders and congressmen feel the need to attend these high profile funerals but I wish that they wouldn't all sit together, because if some bizarre accident were to happen it could leave the USA in a huge mess.
Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Hillary all attended the funeral.
That means the person that did not attend that was the next person in the line of secession was 92 year old Robert Byrd!

List of the current presidential line of succession, as specified by the United States Constitution
1 Vice President Joe Biden
2 Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
3 President pro tempore of the Senate Robert Byrd
4 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
5 Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner
6 Secretary of Defense Robert Gates<2>
7 Attorney General Eric Holder
8 Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar
9 Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack
10 Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke
11 Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis
12 Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius
13 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan
14 Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood
15 Secretary of Energy Steven Chu
16 Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
17 Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki
18 Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano

[malaise]

32. Interesting

There were several other Dems there.

[MrsBrady]

36. I ended up having to miss the President's speech...

the good news is I got a call about a temp job today and had to leave.

The bad news is they called when the president was speaking.


Does anyone have a link to his talk or the whole thing? thanks n/t

[goclark]

38. It should be at the CSPAN website by now - hope so nt