Black History from Pittsburgh

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The Week of April 22nd, 2007: IN BLACK HISTORY
QUINCY JONES

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Quincy Delightt Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American music impresario, conductor, record producer, musical arranger, film composer and trumpeter.

During five decades in the entertainment industry Jones' work has earned him more than 70 Grammy Award nominations, more than 25 Grammy Awards, and a Grammy Legends Award in 1991. He is best known as the producer of two of the top-selling records of all time: the album Thriller, by pop icon Michael Jackson, which sold 104 million copies worldwide, and the charity song “We Are the World”.

In 1968, Jones and his songwriting partner Bob Russell became the first African-Americans to be nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Original Song category. That same year, he became the first African-American to be nominated twice within the same year when he was nominated for Best Original Score for his work on the music of In Cold Blood. Jones was also the first (and so far, the only) African-American to be nominated as a producer in the category of Best Picture (in 1986, for The Color Purple). He was also the first African-American to win the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, in 1995.

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REST IN PEACE: (R.I.P.)

Andrea Lee Oliver Woodson aka "Andy" aka "Mother"

Lucy Curry , Dot Talley, Vera Downing, Bertrand "Goocher" Frye, Irma Woodson,
Russell Woodson, Cayce "Beany" Woodson, Margorie Robinson-Adams, Nora Moorehead-Dixon, Irene Moorehead-Battle, James Dixon, Anthony "Torry" Dorsey, Ross "Booper" Thomas, Termain "Butter" Woodson, Dorothy Jean Lee Ransom, Charles Andrew Ransom, John Martin Moorehead, Jr., Donna Ann Davis, Patrice "Trice Ball" Howze, Louise Ledbetter, Mary Ann Barlow, Edward Pratt

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