Celebrity deaths in 2020: Remembering stars who died this year
Updated Dec 30, 2020;
Posted Dec 19, 2020
2020 celebrity deaths included actors Sean Connery, Chadwick Boseman and Kelly Preston and rocker Eddie Van Halen. (AP)
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Celebrity deaths: In memoriam 2020
As we near the end of 2020, we take time to look back at those celebrities and other famous individuals we have lost in the past year. Check out our slideshows to learn more about those stars who have passed on.
Singer Hillard “Sweet Pea” Atkinson, 1945 - 2020
Ohio native and former member of Was (Not Was) also collaborated with the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan and Sir Elton John over the course of his career
John Thompson s autobiography reveals new details of meeting with Rayful Edmond Follow Us
Question of the Day By Matthew Paras - The Washington Times - Thursday, December 17, 2020
Over the years, John Thompson Jr.’s meeting with drug kingpin Rayful Edmond III had become the stuff of legend.
In 1989, the Georgetown coach famously requested a meeting with the D.C. gangster and told him to stay away from his players. The tale was commonly cited as an example of the coach’s courage and moral authority and was one of the first stories retold when the coach died in August.
In his new autobiography published Tuesday, months after his death Thompson talks about how the conversation really went.
Georgetown University
Date Published: January 19, 2021 Share
Georgetown honored Christopher Bradshaw, founder and executive director of Dreaming Out Loud – a food justice social enterprise, as Georgetown’s 2021 John Thompson Jr. Legacy of a Dream Award recipient Jan. 18 during a virtual celebration on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
The university presents the Legacy of a Dream Award annually to an inspirational emerging leader in the DC community.
Responding to the Challenge
Dreaming Out Loud runs a two-acre farm and supports community gardens in Wards 6, 7 and 8 to feed low-income communities in Washington, DC. The food equity nonprofit creates economic opportunities through an entrepreneurship incubator while also advocating for food justice and equity policies leading to the development of healthy, equitable food systems.