Christopher Morris | Variety.com Singer-guitarist B.B. King, the “King of the Blues” who helped define his genre’s electrified postwar sound and became the music’s best-known international ambassador, has died. He was 89. His attorney said he died Thursday in Las...
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — Actor Alton "Ben" Powers, known for his role in the 1970s CBS television series "Good Times," has died at age 64. Powers died April 6 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, according to the Auclair Funeral Home, which is handling arrangements....
by Amsterdam News Sometimes it was hard to separate Dick Anthony Williams the man from the characters he inhabited, especially when he portrayed slick urban hustlers or powerful ghetto-based leaders such as Malcolm X. Williams, 77, died Thursday at Valley Presbyterian...
Obituary from Corbett Funeral Home NOTHEMBA SENTSE HUDDLESTON was born on February, 18, 1982 in Mdanstane, South Africa to Stanford and Ethel Sentse. Departed this world on January 10, 2013 after a short bout with cancer. Survived by her loving husband Daniel...
Michelle Granshaw | Black Past Alice Childress, playwright, novelist, actor, and screenwriter, was born Alice Herndon in Charleston, South Carolina. Her parents separated in 1925 and Childress moved to the Harlem, New York home of her grandmother Eliza Campbell...
Robert (Bobby) Johnson, a tap dancer in vaudeville and on the musical-comedy stage, died of a cardiac arrest Sunday while on his way to St. Vincent's Hospital for dialysis treatment. He lived in Manhattan and would have been 61 years old on Jan. 21. At his death, Mr....
By Chimsima Zuhri | Today in African American History January 12, 1956 Sam Langford, hall of fame boxer and, according to ESPN, “the greatest fighter nobody knows,” died. Langford was born March 4, 1883 in Weymouth Falls, Nova Scotia, Canada. Although he was only 5...