Cause Magazine
In the company of his longtime friend Jimmy Buffett, Bradley died on November 9, 2006 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan of complications from leukemia. He was sixty-five. Upon his death, columnist Clarence Page wrote: “When he was growing up in a working-class neighborhood in Philadelphia, his folks told him he could be anything he wanted to be. He took them up on it. ... Even in those days before the doors of opportunity were fully opened to black Americans, Mr. Bradley challenged the system. He worked hard and prepared himself. He opened himself to the world and dared the world to turn him away. He wanted to be a lot and he succeeded. Thanks to examples like his, the rest of us know that we can succeed, too.”
MONTEL WILLIAMS Emmy-Award winning talk show host Montel Williams has bravely battled Multiple Sclerosis for nearly 10 years. His discipline, strength and no-nonsense attitude may be attributable to his extensive military background. Williams enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1974 and completed his recruit train-
ing at MCRD Parris Island, South Carolina. While training at Twentynine Palms, he was selected for training at the Naval Preparatory School and a year later, he was accepted into the United States Naval Academy. In 1980, he graduated with a degree in engineering and a minor in international security affairs. Upon graduation, Williams was commissioned as an Ensign in the United States Navy. Williams served on board the USS Sampson during the U.S. invasion of Grenada. His awards include the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, two Navy Expeditionary Medals, two Humanitarian Service Medals, a Navy Achievement Medal, two Navy Commendation Medals and two Meritorious Service Medals. He retired after 22 years of military service as a Lieutenant in the Navy.
In 1991, Montel was a rodeo clown in Switzerland for a year prior to going on TV as a talk show host, “The Montel Williams Show,” syndicated by CBS Paramount Television. In 1996, Williams received a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host. He was again nominated for Outstanding Talk Show Host in 2002, and “The Montel Williams Show” was nominated for Outstanding Talk Show in 2001 and 2002. Williams also guest-stars in episodic television and off- Broadway plays. Among others, he portrayed a Navy SEAL lieu- tenant in several episodes of the television series “JAG.” Williams also produced and starred in a short-lived television series called “Matt Waters,” which appeared on CBS in 1996. He played an ex-Navy SEAL turned inner-city high school teacher. Williams also played the judge presiding over Erica Kane's (Susan Lucci) murder trial on the ABC’s “All My Children”.
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