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Malcolm Shabazz in an unknown location. Shabazz, the 28-year-old grandson of political activist Malcolm X, died in Mexico, U.S. officials confirmed Friday, May 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Shabazz family Xiomara Michel)/Malcolm X (FIle Photo)

Malcolm X's grandson buried in NY

Associated Press
HARTSDALE, N.Y. (AP) - Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of slain civil rights activist Malcolm X, has been buried at a cemetery in suburban New York...
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President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick attend an interfaith prayer service for victims of the Boston Marathon attack titled 'Healing Our City,' at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross on April 18, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts.(Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Obama to Boston: 'You will run again'

Julie Pace, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is seeking to refocus a nervous nation's attention on those killed and gravely wounded in what he called an 'act of terror' at the Boston Marathon...
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Rev. Jesse Jackson (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Rev. Jesse Jackson to attend Hugo Chavez funeral

theGrio
NBC CHICAGO - Of all the people attending Hugo Chavez's funeral Friday in Caracas, Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. is among them.
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Los Angeles Lakers owner Dr. Jerry Buss arrives for NBA labor negotiations at Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers on October 20, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images)

Lakers owner Jerry Buss buried

Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss was buried in a private ceremony on Friday...
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Mourners wait in line to get into the Greater Harvest M.B. Church for the funeral of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton on February 9, 2013, in Chicago, Illinois. Hadiya was killed on January 29, when a gunman opened fire on her and some friends while they were standing under a shelter on a warm rainy afternoon in a park about a mile from President Obama's Chicago home. First lady Michelle Obama attended the funeral with Senior White House Adviser Valerie Jarrett and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Hadiya remembered as someone who ‘wanted to change the world’

Renita D. Young
theGRIO REPORT - Nearly two weeks after the death of 15-year-old honor student Hadiya Pendleton became the face of Chicago gun violence and re-charged a national debate on gun control reform, hundreds of family, friends and dignitaries gathered to mourn her loss...
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First lady Michelle Obama looks at her husband President Barack Obama after his speech at the event 'Together We Thrive: Tucson and America' honoring the January 8 shooting victims at McKale Memorial Center on the University of Arizona campus on January 12, 2011 in Tucson, Arizona. The memorial service is in honor of victims of the mass shooting at a Safeway grocery store that killed six and injured at least 13 others, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), who remains in critical condition after being shot in the head. Among those killed were U.S. District Judge John Roll, 63; Giffords' director of community outreach, Gabe Zimmerman, 30; and 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

First lady to attend Hadiya funeral

Lisa Balde, NBC Chicago
VIDEO - First Lady Michelle Obama will attend the funeral of a 15-year-old girl gunned down last week in Chicago, a White House source said...
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Shirley Chambers, 54, buried her last surviving child Monday. He was the fourth of her children who died of Chicago gun violence (theGrio)

Chicago mom attends funeral for 4th child dead from gun violence

Renita D. Young
theGRIO REPORT - With over 40 homicides and more than 150 shootings in Chicago, the country’s third most populous city reached a grim death toll in January...
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DECEMBER 17: Veronika Pozner (L) leaves the funeral services for her six year-old son Noah Pozner, who was killed in the shooting massacre in Newtown, CT, at Abraham L. Green and Son Funeral Home on December 17, 2012 in Fairfield, Connecticut. Today is the first day of funerals for some of the twenty children and seven adults who were killed by 20-year-old Adam Lanza on December 14, 2012. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Newtown victim channels Emmett Till

Brittany Tom
theGRIO REPORT - Noah Pozner, one of the 20 child victims from last month's Sandy Hook elementary shooting, laid in an open casket for his wake which conjures memories of Emmett Till, the innocent African-American boy murdered by two white men...
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Linda Phiel places a "Whopper Jr." sandwich from Burger King on the casket to be buried with her father David Kime, Jr. at Prospect Hill Cemetery in York, Pa. on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013. Phiel and other mourners went through the drive-through at Burger King and each got the hamburger to honor Kime, Jr. who loved fast food. (AP Photo/York Daily Record, Jason Plotkin)

Pa. man gets Burger King drive-thru send-off after funeral

Associated Press
YORK, Pennsylvania (AP) - Mourners at a U.S. fast-food fan's funeral wanted him to have it his way, so they arranged for his hearse — and the rest of the procession — to make one last drive-thru visit before reaching the cemetery...
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President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, former President Bill Clinton, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada stand as the casket is brought in at the funeral service for the late Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, at the Washington National Cathedral, Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama hails Inouye as pivotal role model

Kevin Freking, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says the late Democratic Sen. Daniel Inouye showed him 'what might be possible in my own life'...
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