Posts in category Obituaries

MIAMI – Authentically creative people are usually unable to turn off the imaginative juices. Not at work, not at home and not when their goddaughter …

PHOTO COURTESY OF LATINSONGHALL.COM   By CHARLES J. GANS NEW YORK (AP) – Latin Jazz saxophonist Leandro “Gato” Barbieri, who composed the Grammy-winning music for …

PHOTO COURTESY OF IKSDK.COM BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) – David Baker, a prolific jazz composer and musician who founded the jazz studies program at Indiana University, …

Carl Roosevelt Bennett, Ed. D., 83, father of former South Florida Times Executive Editor Bradley C. Bennett, passed away on March 8. Born on Aug. …

DETROIT (AP) – Gil Hill, a former Detroit city councilman and one-time mayoral candidate better known to action movie fans as the salty-tongued police Inspector …

Known by Vanity, her stage name, Denise Matthews rose to fame after meeting Prince at the American Music Awards in 1980, died on Feb. 15 …

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) – Georgia Davis Powers, a giant in the fight for civil rights in Kentucky and the first African-American woman elected to the …

Cremation has become more popular, in many cases people choose it over traditional burial to save money; that is if they are not tricked into …

During a time when the prevailing notion was that there existed no market for black writers, Charles F. Harris did what he could to dispel …

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) —  Dr. Robert B. Hayling, a dentist and influential civil rights activist in Florida during the 1960s, has died. Hayling died …