Black Reverence for Jackson Is Now Unreserved: NYTimes
Monday, June 29, 2009 at 6:06AM
Jamie Foxx, the host of the Black Entertainment Television music awards, was unequivocal on Sunday night.
“We want to celebrate this black man,” Mr. Foxx said of Michael Jackson. “He belongs to us and we shared him with everybody else.”
Around the world, Mr. Jackson was celebrated Sunday, but there was a special fervor in black neighborhoods and churches.
At the First African Methodist Episcopal church in South Los Angeles, the 10 a.m. service opened with the strains of “I’ll be There” by the Jackson 5, over a video tribute to Mr. Jackson. The congregation clapped and cheered. more

























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