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Friday, March 05, 2021
Lawrence Otis Graham possessed all the qualifications for full-fledged membership in the Ame…
When a candidate for state’s attorney in Cook County, Illinois, held a lunchtime fundraiser …
Thursday, March 04, 2021
Diane Evans died on Saturday, February 20, 2021. She leaves cherished memories to: her siste…
Reverend Clifton W. Bundick died on February 26, 2021. He is survived by a host of loving fa…
Tuesday, March 02, 2021
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Bunny Wailer, a reggae luminary who was the last surviving member of the…
ATLANTA — Vernon Jordan, who rose from humble beginnings in the segregated South to become a…
Monday, March 01, 2021
LAWRENCE, Kan. — LaVannes Squires, the first Black men’s basketball player at Kansas and a m…
Shelia Washington, who founded an Alabama museum dedicated to the memory of the Scottsboro B…
Broadcasting pioneer and former NFL Pro Bowl cornerback Irv Cross died Sunday morning in Min…
Saturday, February 27, 2021
After nearly 25 years as an assistant coach of men’s and women’s basketball teams at seven c…
When it came time for chorus members to audition for solos in the Metropolitan Opera’s 2019 …
Friday, February 26, 2021
Bill Wright, the first Black competitor to win a U.S. Golf Association event in an era when …
Douglas Turner Ward, an actor, playwright and director who co-founded the celebrated Negro E…
Thursday, February 25, 2021
Douglas Carroll Grigsby, who was an internationally renowned bassist, died on Feb. 17, 2021.…
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Tony Brown, who hosted the show “The Quiet Storm” for many years on WDAS FM 105.3, died Wedn…
Dr. Vivian Derricotte Ray, who held positions as a teacher, special education director and s…
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Growing up in segregated Nashville, Tennessee, in the 1950s, Elizabeth R. Duff once tried to…
Mary E. Murphy, who was a nurse for more than 25 years at Abington Memorial Hospital, died o…
Sunday, February 21, 2021
By the time Milford Graves took up the jazz drum kit, in his early 20s, he had spent years p…
William “Cody” Anderson, who was a local broadcast legend and trailblazer, died Saturday, Fe…
Friday, February 19, 2021
It is with great sadness we announce that John W. Sharp peacefully passed away and into the …
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Harriet Braxton Logan passed February 12, 1921. She is survived by loving family & frien…
Jacquelyn Bernice Martin Jackson, who was a teacher for 31 years, died on Monday, Feb. 15, 2…
Barbara Ann Rowan, a transplanted New Yorker practicing law in Virginia, was attending an Al…
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
NEW YORK — Tyler Perry and Bill and Hillary Clinton were among the attendees of a private me…
James Duncan Biggs, Sr., who was a nurse assistant and supervisor of orderlies at two local …
Monday, February 15, 2021
Mary Sewell Smith passed on February 5, 2021. She is survived by her nieces and nephew, Vivi…
On December 29, 2020, Lonnie J. Staton Jr. of Rydal, PA quietly slipped away at Abington Mem…
Vera Collins Murray was born on November 1, 1936 to the late Johnnie C. and Elvin Ward in Ea…
Sarah Ray died peacefully February 9, 2021 surrounded by her family. Visitation Service Thur…
NEW YORK — People traveled across the country and stood in a block-long line to pay respects…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Danny Ray spent years as the emcee for James Brown, and part of his job durin…
Televangelist Frederick K.C. Price, whose Los Angeles ministry became a megachurch with abou…
Kenneth Roberts, who spent 30 years as a deputy sheriff in the Philadelphia Sheriffs Office,…
Friday, February 12, 2021
Memorial service for Temple basketball legend Jay Norman will take place on Monday, Feb. 15,…
Thursday, February 11, 2021
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Terez Paylor, the popular NFL writer and Pro Football Hall of Fame voter …
Julia Eloise (Price) Bright entered into this world on September 15,1936 and peacefully exit…
James D. Jackson died on January 28, 2021. He leaves behind his mother, Laura B. Jackson; hi…
Mary Cornelia “Connie” Johnson, who was the mother-in-law of former West Philadelphia High, …
Danny Ray, who opened thousands of concerts for James Brown with a stem-winding, hype-filled…
Tuesday, February 09, 2021
LAS VEGAS — Mary Wilson, one of the original members of the Supremes, the 1960s group that h…
Monday, February 08, 2021
Eunice Maddox Hunt, age 95, passed away peacefully on Friday, January 29, 2021. She was born…
Daisy M. Saunders passed on January 30, 2021. She is survived by her loving family & fri…
Sunday, February 07, 2021
Jay Norman, an all-time great Temple University basketball player and assistant coach, died …
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Leon Spinks, who won Olympic gold and then shocked the boxing world by beat…
Saturday, February 06, 2021
Dianne Durham, the first Black woman to win a USA Gymnastics national championship, died Thu…
Thursday, February 04, 2021
Ivory Noble Taliaferro, who worked more than 40 years as a technician in the refrigeration a…
While shopping for a Christmas present with her nieces in the late 1970s, Loretta Whitfield,…
PITTSBURGH — Grant Jackson, the winning pitcher in Game 7 of the 1979 World Series for the “…
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