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06/21/10 Film critic and entertainment reporter Dan DiNicola, political and business leader Percy Sutton, FM radio pioneer Scott Muni, veteran radio broadcaster Jim Roselle, and television news broadcaster Don Alhart comprise the 2010 Hall of Fame announced today by the New York State Broadcasters Association .
01/08/10 Filed under: News , Politics Former Tuskegee Airman Percy Sutton's funeral services were held yesterday in New York. Among those in attendance were Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Gov. David Paterson, Sen. Charles Schumer, Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Jesse Jackson. "The tallest tree in our forest has fallen," Jackson said of Sutton, who died on Dec. 26. He was 89. "You've paved the way, Mr. Chairman. Be ...
01/07/10 Charles Rangel was walk ing along 125th Street, past the drugstores and shopping centers some said would never be, when a woman stopped him, crying uncontrollably over the death of Percy Sutton. "Did you know Percy?" Rangel asked the woman. "No," she said. "But he knew me." Percy Sutton knew...
01/07/10 Civil-rights legend and Harlem power player Percy Sutton was remembered yesterday at a stirring, VIP-studded funeral service as the man who paved the way for generations of black leaders. With every pew in the cavernous Riverside Church packed, the 89-year-old former Manhattan borough president and Malcolm X lawyer was praised...
01/07/10 Thousands of mourners filled Riverside Church on Wednesday for the funeral of Percy Sutton, a former Tuskegee Airman who became a pioneering civil rights attorney representing Malcolm X, a power broker and media mogul.
01/05/10 NEW YORK (NNPA) - A dapper, debonair don if ever there was one, Percy Sutton was more than a pioneer. He was a beautiful man who embraced his community by providing services and resources for that community.
01/02/10 Congressman Charles Rangel, City Comptroller John Liu and other officials joined the Reverend Al Sharpton in Harlem Saturday for a special memorial broadcast in honor of the late civil rights pioneer Percy Sutton.
12/31/09 A dapper, debonair don if ever there was one, Percy Sutton was more than a pioneer. He was a beautiful man who embraced his community by providing services and resources for that community. The outpouring has been incredible and thorough for the Tuskegee Airman who became an attorney, entrepreneur, civic leader and civil rights activist. The head of the prominent Sutton family and former ...
12/29/09 Percy Sutton, who died over the week end at 89, was a trailblazer. He may not have been the first African-American to hold political office in New York, but his 11 years as Manhattan borough president -- and, more important, his historic campaign...
12/29/09 On NY1's "Road to City Hall" last night, former Mayor David Dinkins, Rep. Charles Rangel and former NY Secretary of State Basil Paterson (yes, the Governor's dad), appeared to remember their friend and colleague Percy Sutton , the trailblazing lawyer turned politician turned media mogul who passed away last week. The four men, who became powerful in Harlem politics, were known as the "Gang of ...
12/29/09 In January of 1970, Percy Sutton put up my bail after I had been arrested. We had never met. Actually, Percy had talked to R. Peter Straus, then the head of WMCA, and convinced him that they should both bail out me and Felipe Luciano. It was about a week after the Young Lords, the group Felipe and I were with, had occupied a Methodist church on Lexington and 111th in El Barrio for ten days.
12/27/09 Percy Sutton, the pioneering civil rights attorney who represented Malcolm X before launching successful careers as a political power broker and media mogul, has died. Photo by Paul Hawthorne/Getty Images .
12/27/09 NEW YORK - Percy Sutton, the pioneering civil rights attorney who represented Malcolm X before launching successful careers as a political power broker and media mogul, has died. He was 89.Marissa Sho...
12/27/09 NEW YORK - Percy Sutton, the pioneering civil rights attorney who represented Malcolm X before launching successful careers as a political power broker and media mogul, has died. He was 89.
12/27/09 Civil rights attorney Percy Sutton passed away this weekend at the age of 89.
12/27/09 (CNN) -- Civil rights attorney Percy Sutton, who represented Malcolm X and became an influential New York politician and broadcaster, has died at age 89, associates said Sunday.
12/27/09 President Barack Obama on Sunday marked the death of legendary civil rights lawyer and politician Percy Sutton as that of "a true hero to African Americans."
12/27/09 Percy Sutton, a pioneering civil rights lawyer who represented Malcolm X and later became a Harlem business leader, has died. He was 89.
12/27/09 City leaders and residents paid tribute Sunday to the life and times of civil rights attorney, entrepreneur and politician Percy Sutton who died this weekend at the age of 89.
12/27/09 Percy Sutton, the pioneering civil rights attorney who represented Malcolm X before launching successful careers as a political power broker and media mogul, has died. Sutton served in the New York State Assembly before taking over as Manhattan borough president in 1966, becoming the highest-ranking black elected official in the state. He owned several radio stations nationwide, and also ...
12/27/09 Percy Sutton, the pioneering civil rights attorney who represented Malcolm X before launching successful careers as a political power broker and media mogul, died Saturday at age 89. |
