Emmy-nominated actor Meshach Taylor dead at 67
Actor Meshach Taylor dead at age 67 Meshach Taylor, best known for his role as Anthony Bouvier, the assistant to four main female characters on
June 29, 2014
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Actor Meshach Taylor dead at age 67 Meshach Taylor, best known for his role as Anthony Bouvier, the assistant to four main female characters on
Bobby Womack, one of soul music’s most gifted and influential singer-songwriters, has died at the age 70 years old. It has yet to be disclosed
Tony Gwynn has died at the age of 54. The Major League Baseball legend battled cancer of the salivary glands for several years. He believed
Actress, author, activist Ruby Dee took her final bow at home in New Rochelle, New York on June 11, 2014. Dee died of natural causes
Legendary artist and activist Ruby Dee dies at 91, two weeks after the passing of late poet Maya Angelou. Dubbed the queen of Black Hollywood,
Adorned with the West African (Ghanaian) Adinkra symbol, Gye Nyame, which means Supremacy of God, on the cover, Maya Angelou’s home-going program is a keepsake. The legendary
Legendary entertainment and banking industry mogul Don Davis died Thursday, June 5, following a brief illness. Davis was chairman and CEO of First Independence Bank
Born McArthur Swindle, a 21-year-old rapper commonly known as “OTF Nunu” or “Nuski,” was gunned down at a shopping mall in the Chatham neighborhood last
The name Ann B. Davis may not ring a bell with the younger set. But for those who grew up during the 1970s, she was
A member of Mount Zion Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, NC, for more than 30 years late poet Maya Angelou will be remembered there during a memorial
Noted author, poet laureate and civil rights activist Maya Angelou was found dead Wednesday morning by her caretaker. She was 86. During her lifetime, Angelou
Renowned poet Maya Angelou, 86, passed away at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. According to her literary agent, Helen Brann, she has been “frail” and
Author Sam Greenlee, whose seminal work, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, died on May 19, 2014, in Chicago, Illinois. He was 83 years
After recurring bouts with cancer, which resulted in her being on crutches for four years, suffering severe back pain and having 10 surgeries, Yeatise Gaines,
Mimi Faust’s father passes away “Love & Hip Hop Atlanta” star Mimi Faust is currently mourning the loss of her father. The reality starlet shared
The world of black intelligentsia lost a giant of a man and spirit with the death of Paul Robeson Jr., this past Saturday April 26,
DJ EZ Rock, who rose to fame alongside his musical partner, Rob Base, in the late 1980s, has passed away. He was 46 years old. Born Rodney Bryce, EZ Rock’s cause of death has not been publicly revealed.
DJ Rashad, footwork pioneer, dies DJ Rashad, a Chicago DJ noted for his pioneering of the footwork music movement, has died. Rashad Harden was found dead
Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, the boxer famously convicted for murder and spent 19 years in prison before the charges were dismissed, has died at age 76. According to numerous reports, Carter died of prostate cancer early this morning at his home in Toronto. Carter founded the nonprofit organization Innocence International in Toronto to assist inmates who are possibly wrongly convicted.
Gabriel García Márquez death Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez has died. Reps for the Colombian novelist confirm that he died Thursday, April 17 at his
