2005 for Black Folks: a partial review

I invite folks who read this blog to contribute to my partial (as in incomplete and biased) review of 2005 for black people. I'll keep adding to it but I want to get it started.


Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath
Haiti
Liberian elections
The execution for Stanley Williams and the question of redemption
Darfur
New findings on the Wilmington Riots


Deaths:

Rosa Parks
August Wilson
Richard Pryor
Ossie Davis
Shirley Horn
Harold Cruse
Johnnie Cochran
Shirley Chisholm
Constance Baker Motley
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Luther Vandross

To be continued ...