Obituaries

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) _ Miriam DeCosta-Willis, the University of Memphis’ first Black professor and a participant in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, has died, the school said. She was 86. DeCosta-Willis […]

NASHVILLE, TN — Kwame Leo Lillard was the younger of two children born in Bartow, FL with a few grades completed there for schooling. With the entrepreneurial spirit in tow for a larger city, his […]

Trailblazing Pentecostal Pastor, Scholar, Author, Was Founder of Detroit’s Abyssinia Christ Centered Ministries DETROIT, MI — Prayers and condolences surround the sad news that Her Grace Bishop Dr. Iona E. Locke, founder of Abyssinia Christ […]

Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Friends and family are mourning the loss of 1970s Tennessee State University legend Claude Mann who passed away Monday, December 28th, according to published reports. This is a developing story. The Tennessee […]

Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)-Leroy Walker, 93 beloved father to Dr. Dolores Walker Mathis and Dr. Janice Yvonne Walker, grandfather The Hon. Njeri Mathis Rutledge, great grandfather, uncle and friend died on December 20, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee. […]

  Gifted vocalist Valerie Millicent Crouch Cobbs passed away November 12, 2020. Cobbs was born January 31,1957 in Nashville, Tennessee to Hubert and Josephine Crouch. Five years later Melanie (Vicki) Crouch followed suit. The two […]

Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Tolbert Transitioned Wednesday, November 4, 2020 at the age of 95 years. She was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Samuel A. Tolbert.  She was born, Sarah Elizabeth Jemima Redd in Pasquo, […]

Mrs. Gladys Louise Bender Transitioned Friday, November 13, 2020 at the age of 97 years. She was a faithful and ardent member of the Payne Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Nashville, Tennessee for seventy-nine years […]