Posts in category Obituaries

PHOTO COURTESY OF MIAMITIMESONLINE.COM MIAMI – When icons talk, it’s best to listen. It’s one of the reasons Garth Coleridge Reeves Sr.’s prophetic declaration in …

PHOTO COURTESY OF DECIDER.COM LOS ANGELES (AP) – Actor-comedian John Witherspoon, who memorably played Ice Cube’s father in the “Friday” films, has died. He was …

PHOTO COURTESY OF ONECOUNTRY.COM NEW YORK (AP) – Diahann Carroll, the Oscar-nominated actress and singer who won critical acclaim as the first black woman to …

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Tanya “Chiaka” Aslanda Oparah, the daughter of Tanya Simons-Oparah and Chief Victor-Vela Oparah, died on Sept. 6 following an extended illness. …

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) – Former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe, an ex-guerrilla chief who took power when the African country shook off white minority rule, and …

PHOTOS COURTESY OF YELP AND STOCK PHOTO WASHINGTON (AP) – A black-owned funeral parlor in Washington, D.C., was handling up to 140 funerals per year …

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 …