Obituaries
Harold’s Chicken Shack has long been a staple of Chicago food, with Kristen Pierce-Sherrod managing the chain since her father died in 1988.
Claudette Colvin was known for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus nine months before Rosa Parks.
As we’ve come to understand year after year, day after day, death is an inevitable part of life—a universal truth that spares no one. Yet, despite its certainty, the weight of loss never becomes easier to bear, nor does the act of processing its impact. For those within Black culture, where community and shared experiences […]
As we’ve come to understand year after year, day after day even, death is unfortunately an inevitable part of life. Still, as much of a fact as that may be, the blow of experiencing loss never gets any easier, nor does reporting on the subject in Black culture.
Gospel legend Richard Smallwood, 8-time Grammy nominee, dies at 77 after kidney failure. Pioneered contemporary gospel sound.
Pioneering Black Park Ranger Betty Reid Soskin, 104, championed marginalized voices & ensured underrepresented histories were not forgotten.
Jimmy Cliff’s international breakthrough came in 1972 after starring and recording the soundtrack for the cult classic film “The Harder They Come.”
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, a Black revolutionary who preached armed resistance, dies at 82.
D'Wayne Wiggins, a founding member of the legendary soul/R&B group Tony! Toni! Toné!, has died at 64 following a battle with bladder cancer.
Jazz vibraphonist Roy Ayers, noted as a pioneer in jazz-funk who inspired many, died March 5 following a lengthy illness.
Gene Hackman, Wife Betsy Arakawa, And Dog Found Dead in Their New Mexico Home Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were tragically found dead in their Santa Fe, New Mexico home on Wednesday, alongside their dog. Hackman was 95 years old, while Arakawa was 63. The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office confirmed […]
Sha'Vi Lewis, a Clark Atlanta alum who competed in Bravo's fashion-competition series "Project Runway," passed away on Feb. 24.
