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B-13 Peer Review: Rembering a Legendary Pop Icon...

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Every Saturday B-13 Peer Review Post updates- We will resume Updates Monday, February 13, 2012 Dear, GOD I heard news that brought me to tears today; She has reached over 200 million hearts with the message of love, faith, and family. She has left us to go to YOU and there is a whole in over 200 million hearts mainly ours here at B-13. She had experienced some pretty tough times in life. and had seemingly overcome them as our prayers went up... However, her pain was far deeper than we could have ever imagined; now she is with YOU...  Now all we have are memories... INTERVIEW: The Deluxe Anniversary Edition Mini Biography Whitney sings the National Anthem Home You give good love Saving All My Love I'm your baby tonight So Emotional I will always love you Exhale Run To You Count On Me The Greatest Love of All All the Man I need Miracle I'm Every Woman It's not right but it's ok I Look To You My Love Is You...

B-13 Peer Review: Is in deep morning over death of A Legendary pop star...

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Ms. Whitney Houston       Whitney Houston   Dead at 48 this afternoon ... a rep for the singer told the Associated Press. According to our sources, Houston died at the Beverly Hilton hotel. A police crime lab vehicle was seen outside the hotel just moments ago ( see below ). So far, the details surround Houstin's death are unclear. The singer famously battled drug addiction for years. Houston won two Emmy Awards, six Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards , 22 American Music Awards during her record-breaking career. Her album "Whitney" was the first female album to ever debut at #1 on the Billboard Charts. She has sold 200 million albums world wide. Houston holds an Honorary Doctorate in Humanities from Grambling State University in Louisiana. Houston had one child, Bobbi Kristina, with husband Bobby Brown. Houston and Brown were married from 1992-2007. W...

B-13 Peer Review: A Moment In Black History- Phyllis Wheatley

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In 1761 Phillis was purchased as a personal slave in Boston by Susannah Wheatley, wife of tailor John Wheatley. She was evidently around 7 years old at the time. Her only written memory of her birthplace was of her mother performing a ritual of pouring water before the sun as it rose; biographers conjecture she came from Senegal/Gambia and may have been a Fula, a Moslem people who read Arabic script. Very likely she was kidnapped into slavery and brought on a slaving vessel on the Middle Passage. She learned to speak and write English very quickly, taught by Mary Wheatley, the 18 year old daughter of her owner; within 16 months she could read difficult passages in the Bible. At 12 she began studying Latin and English literature, especially the poetry of Alexander Pope, soon translating Ovid into heroic couplets. These would have been remarkable accomplishments for an educated white male boy, and was virtually unheard of for white females. She may well have read Anne Bradstreet's p...