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Willie "Bill" Pinkney (August 15, 1925 – July 4, 2007) was an American performer and singer. Pinkney was often said to be the last surviving original member of The Drifters , who achieved international fame with numerous hit records.
On November 16, 2009, Jamar Pinkney Sr. murdered his 15-year-old son, Jamar Pinkney Jr. in an execution-style shooting in Detroit, Michigan.. Pinkney Sr. said that Pinkney Jr. had admitted to sexually assaulting his 3-year old half-sister before he assaulted him, forced him to take off his clothes, marched him down the street while naked to a vacant lot, forced him to kneel and shot him in the ...
He also wrote a children's book about his experiences called Captain Bill Pinkney's Journey. [9] [13] In 2022, he published a second children's book, Sailing Commitment Around The World By Bill Pinkney, illustrated by Pamela C. Rice who, along with Pinkney, was in the first all-Black Crew to compete in the Mackinac Race.
A Kentucky woman is under arrest after authorities found her mother dead and dismembered in the victim's home earlier this week. The mother was found dead in her Robertson County, Ky., home on ...
Pinkney penned two children’s books: “Captain Bill Pinkney’s Journey” (1994) and “Sailing Commitment Around the World” (2022). His autobiography “As Long as It Takes” (2006) won ...
Sep. 6—MYSTIC — Bill Pinkney had already sailed solo around the world via Cape Horn ― the first Black man to do so ― when he joined the Mystic Seaport Museum's board of trustees in 1994.
Clementa Carlos Pinckney [a] (July 30, 1973 – June 17, 2015) was an American politician and pastor who served as a Democratic member of the South Carolina Senate, representing the 45th District from 2000 until his murder in 2015.
Two parents in Washington allegedly tried to choke their 17-year-old daughter to death in an apparent "honor killing" attempt after she refused an arranged marriage with an older man, police said ...