WASHINGTON, DC — United States Court of Appeals Judge Damon J. Keith, who decided many of the nation’s most important…
Browsing: National Obituaries
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…
Martha Rivera Chavis, 53, the devoted wife of civil rights leader, Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., died at home in…
WASHINGTON, DC — The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) mourns the passing of NABJ Founder Claude Lewis, also a…