pointer

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Keeping him on track academically has been “a challenge,” his mother, Lakeshia Pointer, said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

Pointer is survived by her three children from her first marriage, David, Katie and Amy, and many grandchildren.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2025

“The unflappable Pointer sails above the general mayhem with a ladylike aplomb that makes her subsequent emotional epiphany all the more moving,” The Times wrote about Pointer’s performance in that show.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2025

Customers’ genetic data could also be attractive to the companies that serve law enforcement agencies — which have a “ready-built customer base” of agencies already equipped to process genetic information, Pointer said.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2025

He had been a West Pointer, had left the army to become a lawyer, a prosecutor.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara