Berry Gordy , Brooke Shields , and Smokey Robinson gave Giving eulogies , while Queen Latifah read `` We Had Him '' , a poem written for the occasion by Maya Angelou .

Neither the president nor First Lady Michelle Obama were home at the time , although their youngest daughter , Sasha , and the first lady 's mother , Marian Shields Robinson , were .

Participants run Self_motion between Newcastle upon Tyne and South Shields .