Pierre R. Gboko died on July 17, 2020. Private funeral service will be held on Saturday, Aug…
Obituaries
Monday, August 03, 2020
Jane Rice died on July 28, 2020. Funeral service will be held on Saturday, August 8, 2020, 1…
Shawn Jones died on July 17, 2020. Private funeral service will be held on Saturday, August …
Ethel Johnson died on July 30, 2020. Funeral Mass will be held on Friday, August 7, 2020, 11…
William (Bill) Coleman Williams passed away on July 29, 2020. The family is honoring Bill’s …
Johnnie Erving Sr., a longtime Philadelphia police officer and World War II veteran who resi…
Philadelphia has lost a basketball legend. Mike Gale who starred at Overbrook High School, E…
Thursday, July 30, 2020
Subodh Ghosh. In Memoriam, S.R.G. ... Baba passed away during the early hours of Thursday, J…
Herman Cain, a onetime Republican presidential candidate and former CEO of Godfather's Pizza…
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
One of the founding members of The Roots, Malik B., has died at the age of 47.
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
WASHINGTON — Mourners braved both coronavirus fears and brutal heat on Tuesday to pay their …
Longtime businesswoman Carolyn Ann Cunningham, who owned and operated Carolyn’s Hair Care Ce…
Ben Jipcho, a Kenyan runner who sacrificed his hopes of winning a medal at the 1968 Mexico C…
In his village in northern Zimbabwe, Cosmas Magaya played music to summon ancestral spirits …
Monday, July 27, 2020
Helen L. Green passed July 12, 2020. Survived by 1 daughter, 1 son and 5 grandchildren. View…
Dale Boyce died on Monday, July 20, 2020. Funeral service will be held on Saturday, August 1…
WASHINGTON — In a solemn display of bipartisan unity, congressional leaders praised the late…
Friday, July 24, 2020
Legendary Philadelphia boxing trainer Naazim Richardson died on Friday, July 24, 2020 follow…
ATLANTA — John Lewis’ funeral will be Thursday at Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church…
Thursday, July 23, 2020
As a white Southern woman working to end racial segregation in the 1950s and ’60s, Constance…
JACKSON, Miss. — Charles Evers, who led an eclectic life as a civil rights leader, onetime p…
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Rev. Mary Ellen Hope, a microbiologist and one of the first women ordained into the gospel m…
JOHANNESBURG — South African anti-apartheid icon Andrew Mlangeni, the last remaining survivo…
Monday, July 20, 2020
Spencer Thomas Villines, a longtime social worker at the Youth Study Center, died on Saturda…
ATLANTA — The funeral for the Rev. C.T. Vivian, an early and key adviser to the Rev. Martin …
Philadelphia rhythm and blues singer Sharon Paige, who performed with Harold Melvin and the …
Sunday, July 19, 2020
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Katie Dorsett, the first Black woman to serve on North Carolina’s cabinet…
Saturday, July 18, 2020
ATLANTA — John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama st…
Friday, July 17, 2020
ATLANTA —The Rev. C.T. Vivian, an early and key adviser to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. w…
Thursday, July 16, 2020
Eddie Gale, a spiritually minded jazz trumpeter and educator who performed with avant-garde …
Delores Dorsey died on Sunday, July 12, 2020. Funeral service will be held on Tuesday, July …
Rhea Edith Williams died on Saturday, July 11, 2020. Funeral service will be held on Saturda…
Former Philadelphia Phillies standout Tony Taylor died Thursday, July 16, 2020, following co…
The Rev. Leonard L. Smalls of Berwyn, a retired pastor, a former prison chaplain and a dedic…
Mother Thomasina Todd, founding mother of Christ Haven Pentecostal Church, died on Tuesday, …
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Cleveland “Cleve” Eaton, a jazz legend who was called “the Count’s Bassist” by Count Basie, …
Monday, July 13, 2020
Theodore L. Liles Jr. died on Wednesday, July 8, 2020. Funeral service will be held on Thurs…
Jonathan Williams died on July 7, 2020. Viewing Tues., July 14, 2020, 12:45pm - 1:45pm, Emma…
Wayne G. Davis, an African-American FBI trail blazer, died on July 9, 2020, at the age of 81…
The Rev. Leonard L. Smalls, former pastor of 59th Street Baptist Church and Bethlehem Baptis…
JOHANNESBURG — Zindzi Mandela, the daughter of South African anti-apartheid leaders Nelson M…
JOHANNESBURG — Zindzi Mandela, the daughter of South African anti-apartheid leaders Nelson …
Saturday, July 11, 2020
Lucius J. Barker, a revered political scientist and professor whose professional expertise i…
Friday, July 10, 2020
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — In America’s oldest city, a debate over history is looming, as residents…
Emma Sanders, one of the few surviving members of a group whose impassioned challenge to an …
Thursday, July 09, 2020
Delores Schwartz, which occurred on Monday, July 6, 2020. A viewing will be held on Monday, …
Toney Lucas Jr., which occurred on Sunday, July 5, 2020. A viewing will be held on Monday, J…
Mr. Nadir Nafis, Holloman Jr. (Lil Naddy), which occurred on Tuesday, July 7, 2020. Funeral …
Monday, July 06, 2020
Lynn Joseph Dickerson and Nettie Bass Dickerson, who passed 5/3/20 and 6/20/20 respectively.…
Marian Geneva Berkley, beloved mother of Robert Berkley and Franchille Oglesby. Graveside se…
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