https://youtu.be/vpnNOEW-d8o Graye Morkel | channel24 South African actor Patrick Shai has died. Speaking to Channel24, Kopano Shai confirmed that the actor and activist died on Saturday. "It is with great sadness to announce the passing of veteran actor Ntate Patrick...
J. Kim Murphy | Variety Ian Alexander Jr., a musician, DJ and son of actress and director Regina King, has died by suicide. He was 26 years old. Alexander’s death was confirmed to Variety by a public relations representative for King. No further details are available...
Mike Barnes | The Hollywood Reporter Carol Speed, the actress and singer who made a name for herself with performances in the blaxploitation-era movies The Mack, Black Samson and Abby, died Friday in Muskogee, Oklahoma, her family announced. She was 76. Speed...
By Patrick Hipes | Deadline Lusia “Lucy” Harris, the pioneering women’s basketball player who became the first female to score a basket in the Olympics, one of the only women to be drafted into the NBA and later the first female collegiate player inducted in the...
J. Kim Murphy | Variety André Leon Talley, a titan of fashion journalism who served as creative director and editor-at-large at U.S. Vogue, died on Tuesday at a hospital in White Plains, N.Y. He was 73 years old. A cause of death was not immediately available....
By Bruce Haring | Deadline Rosa Lee Hawkins, whose group the Dixie Cups bumped the Beatles off the No. 1 position on the charts in 1964 with their hit “Chapel of Love,” died Tuesday at age 76 in Tampa, FL. She was 76 and passed from internal bleeding resulting from...
By Bruce Haring | Deadline Fred Parris, the songwriter whose “In The Still of the Night” became one of doo-wop’s most memorable songs, has died at age 85 after what was termed a brief illness. The group’s Facebook page announced his death Friday, although it is...
By Bruce Haring, Brandon Choe | Deadline James Mtume, a percussionist who performed in Miles Davis’ seminal fusion band from 1971-75 and later had hits with his own eponymous group, has died at 76. The daughter of Mtume’s late creative partner Reggie Lucas, Lisa...
Selome Hailu | Variety Sidney Poitier’s family remembered the Hollywood giant as a humanitarian, a leader and a devoted artist in a statement issued Friday evening, a day after his death at the age of 94. The actor, who became the first Black person to win the Oscar...
Western Highlights The actor/writer/producer, Max Julien, passed away on his birthday, Jan. 1, due to undisclosed circumstances — this according to his PR team … who says his wife discovered him early him Saturday morning. In a statement, they say in part … “During...
A.D. Amorosi| Variety Bassist and composer Leonard “Hub” Hubbard, one of the earliest members of The Roots, passed away on December 16 after a long battle with multiple myeloma, a rare form of blood cancer with which he was diagnosed, and which led to his departure...
by Matt Grobar | Deadline Hollywood Tommy Lane, an actor and stuntman who appeared in such classic films as Shaft and Live and Let Die, died Monday at Fort Lauderdale’s Florida Medical Center after a long battle with COPD. He was 83. His daughter, Kamala Lane,...