Remembering Angie Stone a life of music and kindness
In Austell and Columbia tributes, fans and fellow artists mourn Grammy nominated Angie Stone killed in a March 1 car crash near Montgomery Alabama. Tyler Perry and Keke Wyatt led heartfelt remarks as the service celebrated Stone's career from The Sequence to solo hits like Wish I Didn't Miss You and Mahogany Soul.
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Angie Stone
Austell
Georgia
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Atlanta
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Montgomery
Alabama
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Anthony Hamilton
Kirk Franklin
Wyatt
Columbia
Associated Press
Nazareth Baptist Church
The
Sequence
Sugar Hill Records
Dr. Dre
Vertical Hold
Betty Wright
Erykah Badu
Jill Scott
Maxwell
D’angelo
Rob Schneider
Cuba Gooding Jr
Beyoncé
Ice Cube
Kevin Hart
Big Mama Morton
Chicago
Perry
AT&T technician Mark Klein exposed NSA spying saga
Seven years before Edward Snowden, Mark Klein a retired AT&T technician sounded the alarm on domestic spying. In 2006 he publicized documents showing NSA taps via Room 641A at an AT&T hub in San Francisco creating copies of internet data and feeding them to the agency. His disclosures underpinned class actions against AT&T and the NSA, later boosted by Snowden’s leaks. Klein died at 79 in Oakland after pancreatic cancer.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF
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Bamford
Oakland
California
Larry Klein
New York
Post
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Room 641A
Sprint
Qwest
Seattle
Los Angeles
San Diego
San Jose
Nein
NPR
Hepting
South Africa’s Athol Fugard dies at 92 in Cape Town
Cape Town reports the death of playwright Athol Fugard 92 renowned for works like The Blood Knot and Master Harold and the Boys. His career challenged apartheid, drawing international attention to racial injustice and human dignity. He collaborated with Black artists, endured government scrutiny, and left a lasting cultural legacy across theater and society.
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Cape Town
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Ment
Lightskinned Brother
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Robben Island
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Africa
Desmond Tutu
Tutu
Time Magazine
Middleburg
Karoo
Johannesburg
Sophiatown
University of Cape Town
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