- Jack Tween in phone contact with King of pop

MICHAEL JACKSON wants to attend the funeral of Big Brother star Jade Goody.

"Michael has been very moved by Jade’s story," a source close to the Thriller singer told the Daily Star.

"He has pledged to offer any support he can and he has promised to try and make it to the funeral."

Jackson has already spoken to Goody's widower, Jack Tweed, and previously invited the couple's children to one of his upcoming concerts at the O2.

But while Jackson would be welcome, glamour model Jordan has been banned from the funeral.

Jordan has publicly asked for an invite to the June funeral, but is persona non grata with the Goody clan after attacking Jade for, "being paid for interviews on subjects people are really traumatised by."

"If she turns up she will not be allowed in," a family source told The Sun. "A lot of people were offended by Jordan's remarks."

Jade Goody's funeral is to be held this Saturday, 4 April at the St John the Baptist church in Burkhurst Hill, Essex.

Michael Jackson Memorial Service

MICHAEL JACKSON FUNERAL

Details about the Michael Jackson Funeral:

Michael Jackson will be privately buried July 7th at Forest Lawn Cemetery at 8 am.

The public memorial ceremony to follow will be:

Date: July 7, 2009
Time: 10:00 am
Place: Staples Center
Tickets: Free

If you do not have a Michael Jackson funeral ticket you will be barred from the Staples Center area by the Los Angeles police department.

Michael Jackson Funeral Ticket

The the Michael Jackson Memorial will start at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, July 7th, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Travel Arrangements for Michael Jackson’s Public Memorial

This will be an ‘event’ and not an all-day opportunity for a viewing.

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Michael Jackson’s will has been released and is available here:

Read Michael Jackson’s Will

Michael Jackson’s body has been released from the Los Angeles Coroner’s Office. Although a full report is expected to take several weeks, the initial indication is that there was no foul play.

For privacy reasons Michael Jackson’s family has had his body taken to a private mortuary.

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Michael Jackson is survived by three children: Michael Jr., Paris, and Prince. He was not currently married, having previously divorced from Lisa Marie Presley and then Deborah Jeanne Rowe.

Michael Jackson’s mother, Katherine Jackson has filed a petition with the Los Angeles Superior Court seeking control over Michael Jackson’s estate and to be appointed the guardian of his three children. She was appointed temporary custody until August 3rd when a hearing on the matter will occur. On July 6th, the court ordered that the executors in the will shall have control of the estate until the August 3rd hearing.

Who will decide Michael Jackson’s funeral arrangements? Do they have to follow his religious views? The answers are in this new special post.

Final autopsy results are still pending. The family has now obtained a second and more definitive autopsy opinion from a private source. The Los Angeles Coroner’s Office has thus far been unable to make conclusive findings.

Michael Jackson’s private physician has been the subject of much speculation and has retained a criminal attorney. Aside from his personal interests in protecting himself, there is yet no public word from the physician about what happened to Michael, although he has spoken privately to investigators.

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Michael Jackson to be buried in LA on July 7

ondon, July 2 (IANS) The last rites of pop legend Michael Jackson, who died following cardiac arrest last week, would be conducted in Los Angeles next Tuesday, according to thesun.co.uk.

The funeral will be held at Los Angeles’ Staples Center, which is owned by AEG Live, the event management company behind the singer’s comeback tour at London’s O2 arena.

Proceedings of Jackson’s funeral will begin at 10 a.m.

According to sources, AEG will put up gigantic screens outside the facility for the thousands of fans who will not be able to get inside to see the funeral proceedings.

Earlier reports suggested that Jackson’s family was opting for traditional Islamic burial rituals for the late pop legend.

Staples Center Michael Jackson Tickets

Michael Jackson Memorial Tuesday at Staples Center

Fans of the King of Pop will get a chance to pay their final respects to the entertainer, at the Los Angeles Staples Center, Tuesday. AEG, the concert promoters behind Jackson’s ill-fated ‘This is It Tour,’ announced that it will distribute 11,000 tickets to the event free of charge.

Staples Center has been chosen as the venue for an official public Michael Jackson Memorial, scheduled to be held Tuesday, July 7 at 10 am. The event will also be simulcast on screen at the Nokia Theatre at LA Live! across the street. Free tickets to both venues will be distributed in a random drawing. You must register at StaplesCenter.com by 6 pm Saturday, July 4th to have your name placed in the drawing. 8750 names will be drawn to receive 2 free tickets each to either Staples Center or Nokia Theatre. You must have a ticket to be admitted to the venue area. There will be NO broadcast on the outside screens. The family has announced that there will NOT be a funeral procession. The service will be broadcast live on local television stations.

For more information and to register visit www.staplescenter.com

Heal The World lyrics

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a better place for our children & our children's children
so that thay thay thay know it's a better world for them
and i think thay can make it a better place))


There's A Place In
Your Heart
And I Know That It Is Love
And This Place Could
Be Much
Brighter Than Tomorrow
And If You Really Try
You'll Find There's No Need
To Cry
In This Place You'll Feel
There's No Hurt Or Sorrow

There Are Ways
To Get There
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Little Space
Make A Better Place...

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

If You Want To Know Why
There's A Love That
Cannot Lie
Love Is Strong
It Only Cares For
Joyful Giving
If We Try
We Shall See
In This Bliss
We Cannot Feel
Fear Or Dread
We Stop Existing And
Start Living

Then It Feels That Always
Love's Enough For
Us Growing
So Make A Better World
Make A Better World...

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

And The Dream We Were
Conceived In
Will Reveal A Joyful Face
And The World We
Once Believed In
Will Shine Again In Grace
Then Why Do We Keep
Strangling Life
Wound This Earth
Crucify Its Soul
Though It's Plain To See
This World Is Heavenly
Be God's Glow

We Could Fly So High
Let Our Spirits Never Die
In My Heart
I Feel You Are All
My Brothers
Create A World With
No Fear
Together We'll Cry
Happy Tears
See The Nations Turn
Their Swords
Into Plowshares

We Could Really Get There
If You Cared Enough
For The Living
Make A Little Space
To Make A Better Place...

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

You And For Me

You And For Me
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You And For Me
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You And For Me
save it for our children
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Michael Jackson Hated His Skin

	Malcolm X; Black, Brilliant, Beautiful. He said "You can't hate the roots of a tree without hating the tree. You can't hate Africa without hating yourself...."

[Michael Jackson: Dissenting Evaluation]

Editor's Note: We believe that Michael Jackson was the most phenomenal entertainer who ever lived. The writer here deals with an issue that has been grappled in our communities allover the world and we invite all readers to share their own views as well on the topic.

In the wake of Michael Jackson’s death I as many other are forced to reconcile the fact that he died a white Frankenstein due to numerous alterations of his features.

I could care less about what the white media has to say about MJ. At this point it galls me to see the likes of Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Jesse Jackson and other Blacks rally around the ultimate symbol of self- hatred that has ever lived.

Malcolm X would have called Michael Jackson out on every aspect of his self-hatred. We can't even be honest with ourselves about the horrible impact that his conduct and ours has had on the minds of people of color around the world; not to mention the fact that his conduct simply reinforced white supremacist ideals.

In typical ignorant fashion, we African Americans fell in line to mourn and support the individual who betrayed his people. MJ proved the truthfulness of Frantz Fanon's eloquent assessment of the Black man in “Black Skin, White Masks,” when he wrote that, “the black man who strives to whiten his race is as wretched as the one who preaches hatred of the white man."

He also added: "As painful as it is for us to have to say this: there is but one destiny for the black man. And it is white."

It comes as no surprise to me that we can't see the truth for what it is. After all we are products of white America, and they have mastered the ability to lie to themselves and deny the truth.

'King of Pop' Michael Jackson is no more

Michael Jackson, the 'King of Pop', who 'Moon walked' to the hearts of millions with his mesmerizing music and signature break dance in the 80s, died of a suspected cardiac arrest just weeks before his much awaited comeback concert 'This Is It'.

Jackson, 50, christened 'Wacko Jacko' for his bizarre lifestyle, sex scandals and numerous plastic surgeries, died last night after collapsing at his Bel Air mansion in Los Angeles.

The singer was taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA medical centre here by the fire department paramedics after they failed to revive him.

Lieutenant Fred Corral, of the Los Angeles County Coroner's office, said Jackson was pronounced dead at 2:26 pm (0256 IST) local time.

"It is believed he suffered cardiac arrest in his home, however, the cause of his death is unknown until the autopsy results are known. Our family requests that the media please respect our privacy, it is a tough time for us,"

Michael Jackson, Great Champion Of Charity

By Marc H. Morial

Michael Jackson, the "great one," with Nelson Mandela the "greatest one."

[Michael Jackson’s Passing]

One of the most interesting things about Michael Jackson is that even though he died at the young age of 50, so many of us seemed to have grown up listening to his music and trying to copy his dance moves.

I guess that is what happens when you’ve been performing and making records since 1968 at the age of 10 – first as the lead singer of the Jackson Five and later as the world’s most popular solo artist.

But, while his iconic artistry and eccentric lifestyle are well known, I want to spend a few moments reflecting on Michael’s equally impressive record of service to humanity.

Born in 1958 in the steel-mill city of Gary, Indiana, Michael’s life and career paralleled generations of social and economic change. In 1967, just one year before the Jackson Five burst on the scene as Motown’s newest sensation, Richard Hatcher was elected Mayor of Gary, becoming one of the first African American mayors in the country.

Michael and his brothers first captured the nation’s attention in 1968, the year of Martin Luther King’s assassination. Their jubilant music brought people of different races together, some for the first time, at a moment when the forces of discord seemed intent on tearing us apart.

In songs like “We are the World,” and “Man in the Mirror,” Michael spoke to the hearts of people and made powerful statements about the need for greater unity, compassion and peace in the world.

Much of the proceeds of his records and tours were donated to charities devoted to African relief, college scholarships and HIV/AIDS. In 1992, he founded the Heal the World Foundation to relieve the suffering of children around the world.

His “Dangerous World Tour” that year gave him the opportunity, in his own words, to “visit children around the world, as well as spread the message of global love, in the hope that others will be moved to do their share to help heal the world.” In 2000, the Guinness Book of World Records cited Michael Jackson for holding the world record for the “Most Charities Supported by a Pop Star.”

Michael Jackson takes his place among the greatest entertainers of all time. As his mentor and collaborator, Quincy Jones said, “In the 40s you had Sinatra, in the 50s Elvis, in the 60s the Beatles, in the 70s the innovation of Dolby—in the 80s you had Michael Jackson. He was the biggest entertainer on the planet.”

As we mourn his passing in these uncertain times, we might do well to remember the words to one of Michael Jackson’s most poignant songs: “I’m starting with the man in the mirror. I’m asking him to change his ways. And no message could have been any clearer – if you wanna make the world a better place take a look at yourself then make a
change.”

Our prayers go out to the Jackson family and Michael’s children. We will all miss the King of Pop.