SACRAMENTO, CA — He was tireless in the fight for access and respect for Black journalists and relentless in championing…
Browsing: National Obituaries
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,…
George E. Curry, who grew up in a segregated Alabama housing project and became a prominent black journalist, notably as…
By Stacy M Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Legendary civil rights activist and comedian Dick Gregory died on Saturday. He was…
By Matt Schudel Washington Post Dr. S. Allen Counter, a Tennessee State University graduate and Harvard scientist best known for championing…