Posts in category Obituaries

PHOTO COURTESY OF GOPHERSPORTS.COM SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) – A former member of a Louisiana school board who also taught at Southern University’s campus in Shreveport …

PHOTO COURTESY OF WCPO Cincinnati (AP) – Nathaniel Jones, a former federal judge who served for more than two decades on the federal appeals court …

PHOTO COURTESY OF BILLBOARD.COM New York (AP) – Jimmy Heath, a Grammy-nominated jazz saxophonist and composer who performed with such greats as Miles Davis and …

In 2019, the political world lost a giant in U.S. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the death of Toni Morrison in August left a chasm in …

Hattiesburg, Miss. (AP) – A statue of slain civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer now sits outside the Forrest County Courthouse in Mississippi. The Hattiesburg American …

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. …