Posts in category Obituaries

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – A prominent member of the Memphis, Tenn., sanitation workers union whose historic strike drew the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to …

BANJUL, Gambia (AP) – Gambia’s government says the country’s first democratically elected president, Dawda Kairaba Jawara, has died at the age of 95. The Gambian …

PHOTO COURTESY OF GWU.EDU AND NIKKI-GIOVANNI.COM VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) – Bells will ring in a Civil War battleground in Mississippi to remember enslaved Africans who …

PHOTOS COURTESY OF GOLOCALPROV.COM PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – A Rhode Island civil rights and business leader has died. The Providence Journal reports Michael Van Leesten …

PHOTO COURTESY OF WESA.FM PITTSBURGH (AP) – Darryl Drake, the Pittsburgh Steelers wide receivers who spent more than 30 years molding players at the position …

PHOTO COURTESY OF KOCO.COM OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – Former University of Oklahoma running back Mike Gaddis, who former coach Barry Switzer called the best running …