Muhammad Ali, Larry Holmes and Bernard Hopkins were among the nearly 3,000 mourners who came to pay their respects to the late Joe Frazier at Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church on Monday in Philadelphia. Frazier, an an Olympic gold medalist, and former heavyweight champion of the world, died Nov. 7 from liver cancer. Frazier was 67. […]
Soul singer Teddy Pendergrass' funeral Saturday was the kind of soaring ceremony that punctuates the end of a larger-than-large life. A 200-member gospel choir jubilated with high-decibel exhultation, while a band and a sternum-vibrating organ roused the estimated 4,000 people who filled mammoth Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church on Cheltenham Avenue, the biggest African American church in Philadelphia.
