The Philadelphia sports community is mourning the loss of former Bok Vocational Technical Hi…
Obituaries
Thursday, May 28, 2020
Paul Beale Jr., a longtime florist in Philadelphia, died on Sunday, May 24, 2020, at his hom…
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Jimmy Cobb, a percussionist and the last surviving member of Miles Davis' 1959 "Kind of Blue…
Friday, May 22, 2020
Bettye Joyce Watson Lighty, former head teacher at the Ivy Leaf School and deacon, died on T…
The Rev. Montee Best, co-founder of Philippian Baptist Church, died on Saturday, May 16, 202…
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Ms. Iva Harriett Wyche died on Sunday, May 17, 2020. Service Wednesday, May 27, 2020, 10:00 …
Colman Dobson died on Thursday, May 14, 2020. Funeral service will be held on Saturday, May …
Carol A. Smith died on May 16, 2020. Funeral service will be held on Saturday, May 23, 2020,…
Arlene Joyce Gibson passed on May 17, 2020. Services will be May 26, 2020. Viewing 9-11am @ …
Marcus Troy Garmon passed May 13, 2020. Service May 23, 2020 at Holy Temple Church, 2240 N. …
Julius “Duke” Johnson, son of Benjamin G. and Carrie Mae (Bacon) Johnson, was born November …
Valerie Eugenia Croston, a former postal worker and traveler, died on Saturday, May 2, 2020.…
Wilson Roosevelt Jerman, a former White House butler who worked under 11 U.S. presidents, ha…
Monday, May 18, 2020
Rosa L. Napoleon died on Saturday, May 9, 2020. A viewing will be held on Thursday, May 21, …
Friday, May 15, 2020
RALEIGH, N.C. — Former state Rep. Larry Womble, an educator who championed the cause of comp…
Abraham Emanuel Brown (Bram), a devoted family man and farmer, died on Sunday, May 3, 2020, …
Edith Richemond’s moniker in her Brooklyn neighborhood was “Big,” not in the mocking way tha…
Millie Small, the Jamaican singer whose 1964 hit, “My Boy Lollipop,” introduced the upbeat r…
Thursday, May 14, 2020
Sallie Hollemon Taylor, age 102, was quietly called home to be with the Lord on Saturday, Ma…
Shirley Ann Stratton died on Thursday, May 7, 2020. Funeral service will be held on Monday, …
Mary Cleo Payne was born December 15, 1920, to Roman Joseph Payne and Mary Elizabeth Blair (…
Jonathan Adewumi grew up in New York, but he was African through and through.
Charles Aaron, a devoted church member, died on Friday, May 1, 2020, from COVID-19. He was 85.
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
NEW YORK — Not too long after she earned a doctorate from Cornell University College of Vete…
Monday, May 11, 2020
George “Buster” Clarence Draper Sr.
Marilyn Givens died on April 30, 2020. A viewing will be held Tuesday, May 12, 2020, 9:00 a.…
Marion Lassiter died on May 3, 2020. A viewing will be held Wednesday, May 13, 2020, 10:00 a…
Marilyn Deloris “Mikey” Baker Alston died on Saturday, May 2, 2020, God, in His infinite wis…
NEW YORK — Andre Harrell, the Uptown Records founder who shaped the sound of hip-hop and R&a…
Sunday, May 10, 2020
Betty Wright, a powerful singer who had a breakout hit single when she was 17, then went on …
Saturday, May 09, 2020
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Little Richard, the self-proclaimed "architect of rock 'n' roll" whose pi…
NEW YORK — Andre Harrell, the Uptown Records founder who shaped the sound of hip-hop and R&a…
Friday, May 08, 2020
“Free” was Myles Coker’s favorite song. Recorded by Graffiti6, the British indie-pop duo, it…
Marquita Hill remembers the time her father came to her aid in a desperate time of need.
Marilyn Deloris Baker Alston, a former teacher and social work director, died on Saturday, M…
Thursday, May 07, 2020
Walter Dallas, 73, a giant of African-American theater and former artistic director of the F…
Tuesday, May 05, 2020
Philadelphia has lost a notable businesswoman and political leader.
Monday, May 04, 2020
DURHAM, N.C. — Kenneth Edmonds, the publisher of a newspaper that served the African-America…
Paulette R. Surles, 68 years old, passed away on Thursday, April 23, 2020, from heart compli…
Artis T. Ray, age 90, passed away April 21, 2020. Predeceased by parents, Artis Ray, Sr. and…
NAIROBI, Kenya — Distinguished Kenyan journalist Chege Mbitiru, whose career included work i…
Dr. Roberta Savage died on Wednesday, April 29, 2020. Funeral service will be held on Thursd…
Anibal Francisco de Brito, a merchant marine, died on Friday, April 24, 2020, from complicat…
At Paris Blues, a neighborhood bar at Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and 121st Street in …
Saturday, May 02, 2020
Hamilton Bohannon, a drummer whose disco records propelled people onto dance floors in the 1…
Friday, May 01, 2020
Elaine Anna Robinson Richardson, a former teacher and Home and School Association president,…
Doris Eleanor Jones, a former police department employee, died on Monday, April 20, 2020 at …
JOHANNESBURG — Pioneering drummer Tony Allen, the driver of the Afrobeat sound, has died in …
Thursday, April 30, 2020
NEW YORK — At the New York City Fire Department’s training academy, lessons can last as long…
If Willie Levi had enjoyed choice in life, he would have gone back to Texas — back to the sm…
Commented