By Armando Tinoco | Deadline Bobby Rivers, an entertainment reporter and television personality on the Food Network and VH1, has died. He was 70. ABC affiliate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, WISN 12, shared the news about Rivers. The on-air host joined the station in 1979...
By Agency News Desk | GlamSham Actor Andre Braugher, who is known for his roles in ‘Homicide: Life on the Street’ and ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ has passed away at the age of 61 after a recent illness. Andre played Frank Pemberton in ‘Homicide’, earning his first Emmy win...
By Bruce Haring | Deadline David McKnight, whose film resume included starring as the lead in the blaxploitation horror movie J.D.’s Revenge, as well as Robert Townsend’s Hollywood Shuffle and The Five Heartbeats, died Sunday at age 87. McKnight passed from cancer in...
By Jesse Whittock | Deadline Celebrated British poet Benjamin Zephaniah died today, eight weeks after he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He was 65. His death was confirmed in a post on his Instagram account. The poet, who was also an actor in BBC drama Peaky...
By Bruce Haring | Deadline Ellen Holly, the first Black person to star in a soap opera with her lead role on One Life to Live, died Wednesday at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, N.Y. She was 92 and died in her sleep. Her first roles on television included appearances...
By Bruce Haring | Deadline Charles Officer, known as one of the leaders in Black Canadian independent film, has died. He was 49 and succumbed at his home in Toronto Friday from complications from a heart attack. Officer had been battling what’s been described as a...
By Zac Ntim | Deadline Jean Knight, the voice behind “Mr. Big Stuff,” one of the most recognizable songs of the 1970s funk era, has died of natural causes. She was 80. Knight’s longtime publicist confirmed her death with multiple media outlets. Bernie Cyrus, executive...
By Bruce Haring | Deadline Taraja Ramsess, a stuntman in Black Panther, The Avengers and many other films, was killed alongside two of his children in a car crash on Halloween night on an Atlanta highway, according to reporting by local affiliate WSB-TV. Ramsess...
By J. Kim Murphy | Variety Richard Roundtree, an icon of Blaxploitation film who starred as detective John Shaft in Gordon Parks’ 1971 action thriller, died Tuesday afternoon after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 81 years old. His death was confirmed by...
By Armando Tinoco | Deadline Shirley Jo Finney, a theater director and the star of Wilma (1977), has died. She was 74. The Fountain Theatre announced Finney’s October 10 death on social media writing in an Instagram post, “With broken hearts, we share the sad news...
By Charisma Madarang | Rolling Stone KEITH JEFFERSON, THE actor who appeared in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, has died at the age of 53. Jamie Foxx, a longtime friend of the actor, shared news of Jefferson’s...
Michael Lee Simpson | People Nashawn Breedlove, the rapper and actor who starred alongside Eminem in the 2002 film 8 Mile, has died at 46. A family member told TMZ that Breedlove died in his sleep on Sunday at his home in New Jersey. The cause of death is still...