+ Monica Conyers is Congressman John Conyers Wife

Meet Monica Conyers, Detroit City Councilwoman and Congressman John Conyers’ wife. She’s also facing federal corruption charges. Read about it below, read her biography and see photos and a some videos of some of her misbehavior.
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As a child, Conyers worked as a papergirl, helping to support her family of seven. She has been married to U.S. Representative John Conyers for 17 years. They are the parents of two sons. John Conyers III is a student at the University of Georgia. Their other son, Carl, lives in Detroit.

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NO AGE! :>) :>)

She's YOUNGER than him! WE KNOW! :>)

media coverage of MJ death

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James Joyner thinks the coverage of MJ’s death is over the top, and I completely agree. I will, however, note that while the MJ coverage is over the top, it still pales in comparison to the three day self-absorbed wankfest that followed Tim Russert’s death.

I guess the reference to Russert confirms that the blogosphere is its own kind of Village. While NBC and some newspapers covered Russert, it didn’t have anywhere near the world-wide impact of Jackson’s death.

I mean, people were noting how they got a copy of Thriller when they were kids and wore it out. I don’t recall reading many talking about how they got a video of a Russert MTP episode and watched it all day and night for weeks.

And while I see that many people have some kind of magical internal grief monitor by which they calibrate appropriate levels of grief that other people should feel or express, you really should keep this narcissistic shit to yourselves.

As I walked along the streets of Southern California yesterday, I was struck by the number of foreign language newspapers that had MJ on the front page. And noodling a bit at work, I was struck by this photo montage from the Daily Mail (Shocked fans gathered around the world to mourn Michael Jackson).

On the way home, I was listening to LA Times reporter and talk show host Patt Morrison on public radio, asking for listener reaction to Jackson’s death. One woman, originally from Saudi Arabia, spoke about hearing MJ on pirate radio broadcasts and how his music was connected with her dreams of wanting something more in her life than was laid out for her by her society. Another listener, from Romania, spoke about being able to see Jackson during one of his world tours, noting how the concert was attached to his memories of unshackling from totalitarianism.

A music industry executive noted how Jackson’s albums Off the Wall and especially Thriller broke big worldwide, where the past model was for even the most well-known artist to break big in the US and maybe the UK, and then gradually roll out in other countries. The Wiki notes of Thriller:

Following the release of the album’s first single “The Girl Is Mine”, some observers assumed Thriller would only be a minor hit record. With the release of the second single “Billie Jean”, the album topped the charts in many countries. At its peak, the album was selling a million copies a week worldwide. In just over a year, Thriller became—and currently remains—the best-selling album of all time.

But again I note that Jackson, musically and culturally speaking, had been a part of people’s lives since first burst onto the scene with the Jackson 5. Many people grew up along with him.

ricky —Name one musical contribution Jackson made that has lasted beyond the MTV playlist change.

I don’t know. In my little universe, any time corporate racism is blasted is a good day. Before MJ, the assumption was that white people might explode—just freaking blow up in their living rooms—if they saw black performers showing up on their teevees.

burnspbesq—Coltrane died at age 39. That was a tragedy, and an incalcuable loss.

This is a pointless game of one-upsmanship. You might as well say something like “Franz Schubert died at age31. That was a tragedy, and an incalculable loss.”

More real is the tangible impact that a musician or performer has on those who listen to their work, or who have had the pleasure of actually seeing them perform at their creative peak. Their effect on people’s eyes, ears and hearts is so great that they can barely believe it when the artist dies, and perhaps explains why some semi-seriously (and others with an obsessive weirdness) maintain that Elvis is still alive. And it certainly explains this often noted reaction to the death of jazz musician—yes, Wile E. Quixote—jazz musician Charlie Parker:

Shortly after Parker died, graffiti began appearing around New York with the words ‘Bird Lives.’

Djena Graves and Harry Lennix III

Published: June 26, 2009

Djena Nichole Graves and Harry Joseph Lennix III were married Saturday. The Rev. Earl McClellan, a nondenominational Christian minister, officiated at the Barton Creek Resort & Spa in Austin, Tex.

Mrs. Lennix, 35, is the director of business development at ICV Capital Partners, an investment management company in New York. She is on the board of the Girls Educational and Mentoring Services, a New York advocacy and support group for sexually exploited girls and women, and the Harlem Success Academy, a charter school. She graduated from Florida A&M University and received an M.B.A. from New York University.

She is a daughter of Barbara H. Graves of Missouri City, Tex., and Eric R. Graves Sr. of Austin. Her father, who is retired, worked in Houston as the senior vice president of corporate communications for a print and television subsidiary of Loomis Publishing Services, which publishes periodicals and produces videos for the energy industry. Her mother retired as a neurosurgical operating room nurse at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in Houston. She is a stepdaughter of Patricia F. Graves.

Mr. Lennix, 44, is a television, film and theater actor. He currently has a principal role on “Dollhouse,” a Fox television series. In 2007, Mr. Lennix made his Broadway debut in August Wilson’s “Radio Golf.” He is a trustee of the Robey Theater Company in Los Angeles. He graduated from Northwestern.

He is a son of Lillian C. Lennix of Chicago and the late Mr. Lennix Jr. His father was a machinist at Taylor Forge & Pipe Works in Chicago.

The couple met through a friend after Ms. Graves attended a performance of “Radio Golf.”

A version of this article appeared in print on June 28, 2009, on page ST14 of the New York edition.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/fashion/weddi...

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We would have better relationships with our young'ns if we did this more often.

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Lemon deserves consideration from other networks…ABC are you listening?

I'm tired of complaining about the Maureen Orffs, Mike Taibbis, Savannah Guthries and Jill Tubmans. I want to celebrate Michael Jackson.