Posts in category Obituaries

Nashville, Tenn. (AP) – Little Richard, one of the chief architects of rock `n’ roll whose piercing wail, pounding piano and towering pompadour irrevocably altered …

Miami (AP) – Betty Wright, the Grammy-winning soul singer and songwriter whose influential 1970s hits included “Clean Up Woman” and “Where is the Love,” has …

ROY MIZELL & KURTZ FUNERAL HOME  Melvin Harris, 82, died April 20. Services will be held 1pm Saturday, May 2, at Roy Mizell & Kurtz …

Los Angeles (AP) – Grammy-nominated gospel singer Troy Sneed has died from complications with the coronavirus. He was 52. Sneed’s publicist Bill Carpenter said the …

New York (AP) _ Cheryl A. Wall, a longtime Rutgers University professor and prominent scholar of African American women writers who edited two Library of …

New Orleans (AP) – A white lawyer who defended black civil rights activists at the height of the movement in Louisiana, often weathering threats to …

HADLEY DAVIS FUNERAL HOME Miami Gardens Lula Mae Bailey, 81, clerk, died April 5. Service will be held 12pm Saturday in Chapel. Carla Levonne Jenkins-Reynolds, …

Johannesburg (AP) – Benedict Somi Vilakazi had been surrounded by history. His grandfather was South Africa’s first black lecturer at Witswatersrand University and produced an …

Toledo, Ohio (AP) — Carmen Williamson, who in the 1940s and ’50s was a top U.S. amateur boxer and then in 1984 became the first …

Tuesday, April 1, 2020. “Condolences sent out to Jonathan’s family.” Jonathan “The Peanut Man” Hardin, transitioned to be with the Lord. Jonathan, blessed by God, …