Ruby Lee Summerville-Dickson

In Loving Memory

Sunrise - August 18, 1940
Sunset - November 21, 2005

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Mother Ruby Summerville-Dickson, a pioneer of St. Louis Gospel Announcers and host of "Something Old, Something New" on WGNU, passed on Monday, November 21st 2005. Visitation is from 3-8pm on Sunday (Nov.27th) at Original Friendship Missionary Baptist Church (Oriole and Harney). The funeral service will be held at 11am on Monday at Leonard Missionary Baptist Church, Dr. King and Compton. A beloved friend and mentor, Mother Dickson will be missed.

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Tim Kaine - newly elected Govenor - Virginia

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With a 52% Win over Kilgore... Virginian's celebrate with Tim Kaine.

PRESS RELEASE: Evangelist Maggie Ingram & The Ingramettes: "Records Live"

Richmond's Queen of Gospel will record "Live"

This is the musical event that the City of Richmond has been waiting for! It has been over 10 years since their last release on Atlanta International Records, but in that time, Evangelist Maggie Ingram & the Ingramettes have continued to spread the gospel through song.

On Saturday, November 12, 2005, 6:00PM, at the Antioch Christian Center (335 E. Belt Blvd., Richmond,VA), the Ingramettes will record their first "live" Video/DVD and CD recording. It promises to be a very special event!

During that last 10 years, several of the group members have successfully worked on other projects, but they always come together for this special singing ministry.

Rev. Almeta Ingram-Miller, who is the oldest daughter of Evangelist Maggie Ingram, was praised by audiences and critics alike, as she graced the stages at the Barksdale Theatre and The Empire Theatre in Richmond in the role of "Mother Elsie Shaw" in Regina Taylor's production of "Crowns."

Rev. Michelle Kirven and her husband Rev. Tim Kirven are the founding Co-Pastors of Worship and Praise Deliverance Ministry in the southside of Richmond.

Evangelist Maggie Ingram, the matriarch of the family and of the group, continues her work in the church communities of Richmond and vicinities. She is still sought after as a preacher, Psalmist, and Hymnology clinician, as she seeks to preserve traditional Gospel music for the next generation to come. The musicians are all Ministers of Music at their respective churches.

Evangelist Maggie Ingram & The Ingramettes are nationally known television, stage, and recording artists; and as good as they are apart, nothing compares to their coming together. This is traditional gospel music at its best! The new recording promises some surprises, as some of the songs have been written with a contemporary flavor.

They have invited many of Richmond's brightest stars to share the evening with them. "Sis. Cora Harvey Armstrong", and "Bro. Lee Walker and Spirit" will begin the services. Guest musicians for the evening include keyboardist Min. Darryl Walker, and saxaphonist, Gerthell "Dale" Rogers, both of Richmond, and Val Alexander III of Greensboro,NC (The Gospel Keynotes of Tyler ,TX).

Tickets ($12.00 in advance/$15.00 at the door) go on sale September 26, 2005, at all the usual places in Richmond and Petersburg, as well all members of the participating groups.

Don't miss this blessed event as the City of Richmond and vicinities welcome fans from all over to the first "live" Video/DVD/CD recording of
"Evangelist Maggie Ingram & The Ingramettes".

Rosa Parks - Strength in Death

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Honoring what many call her "quiet strength," the nation mourned and celebrated the passing of Rosa Parks at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church inside the Capitol Rotunda on Monday. Hundreds of people lined up outside the AME Church, where another leading civil rights figure, Frederick Douglass, had also been paid tribute to at his death. The open memorial service drew congressmen, leaders of civil rights organizations and the American public, grateful for the bold act Parks took to sit down so that the nation could stand."We praise God for the gift that she has been to us, to all of us," said Bishop Adam Jefferson Richardson, chairman of the Religious, Educational, Charitable, & Development Projects, Inc., at the opening of the memorial service. Among those who entered the church, a class of elementary school students from Oneness Family School, Chevy Chase, MD, came to witness the memorial service as well."I want them to realize they can change the world one person at a time," said Zoe Handerson, 39, teacher at Oneness, which honors the promotion of peace and diversity.Praised for her small and nonviolent act of refusal to move for a white passenger in the Montgomery bus, Parks inspired a larger and louder movement that that spelled equality and a shift in American history. Parks, who died at 92 years of age on Oct. 24, was the second African American and first woman ever to lie in honor at the Capitol Rotunda on Sunday and Monday. More than 30,000 people passed through the Rotunda to view the mother of the civil rights movement.While the law defined segregation and drew lines between the colored people and the white Americans in 1955, "the Word of God said otherwise," said Gwen Ilfill, sr. correspondent of the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, as she paid tribute to the late Parks. Beyond her influence in America, however, U.S. Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) pointed out her impact worldwide. "Rosa Parks is worldwide," he said in his tribute to Parks at AME. "It's not the [United States of America] or down south."Dr. Dorothy Height, 94, president of the National Council of Negro Women and friend of Parks, honored the "true servant" and encouraged the youth that they can be the best and lead in the future just as Parks did. "If you want to be somebody," she said, "you can be somebody."The Rev. Grainger Browning, senior pastor of Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church, said a loud prayer that drew out "Amen's" from the crowd. Pointing to the racism, poverty and injustice that still exist, he called the nation to "carry on her efforts" today. "Rosa Parks is not dead," he said, "but her legacy still [lives] on."Parks' body was returned to her home city, Detroit, where it was carried into the rotunda of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History for viewing through the early hours of today, Wednesday.