By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent Former U.S. Congressman John Conyers, whose 15-year fight to pass legislation that…
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor-comedian John Witherspoon, who memorably played Ice Cube’s father in the “Friday” films, has died. He…
Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD) speaking at the National Press Club, August 2019. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images) When Elijah Cummings died…
SACRAMENTO, CA — He was tireless in the fight for access and respect for Black journalists and relentless in championing…
PRINCETON, NJ — Over the past two decades, film and literary critic Kam Williams published nearly ten thousand articles and…
WASHINGTON, DC — United States Court of Appeals Judge Damon J. Keith, who decided many of the nation’s most important…
By Nancy McLaughlin GREENSBORO, NC — After Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Bennett College in 1958, a 28-year-old…
CLEVELAND, OH — Darryl A. Stewart, age 67, retired Assistant United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee passed…
PLEASANTON, CA — Edwin Hawkins, the four-time Grammy® Award-winning leader of The Edwin Hawkins Singers’ 1969 million-seller, “Oh Happy Day,”…
WASHINGTON, DC — A memorial service for trailblazing civil rights journalist Simeon Booker will be held on Monday, January 29,…