DETROIT (AP) — William Clay Ford, the last surviving grandchild of automotive pioneer Henry Ford and owner of the Detroit Lions, has died. He was 88. Ford Motor Co. said in a statement Sunday that […]
CELEBRATION OF LIFE FOR THE HONORABLE MAYOR CHOKWE LUMUMBA The Mississippi Link Newswire: a City of Jackson press release The Honorable Chokwe Lumumba, Mayor of the City of Jackson, passed away on Tuesday, February 25, 2014. Mayor […]
BlackRefer.com OBITUARIES in 2013 Ricky Dunigan, AKA Lord Infamous – Lord Infamous, died during a visit at his mother’s home in Memphis on 12/20/13. He was 40 years old. His half-brother, told The Hollywood Reporter that […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — State Rep. Mack McInnis helped 1994 become one of the worst years for Mississippi inmates. McInnis, who died in April at age 79, wanted inmates to wear stripes. How he said […]
First National Bank Stadium Johannesburg, South Africa 1:31 P.M. SAST PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you so much. Thank you. To Graça Machel and the Mandela family; to President Zuma and members of the government; […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Flags were lowered to half-staff across South Africa and people in black townships, in upscale mostly white suburbs and in the country’s vast rural grasslands commemorated Nelson Mandela with song, tears and […]
eurweb.com Radio legend and mentor to EURweb’s Lee Bailey, Jerry Boulding has passed away. Below is info from AllAccess.com, the radio/music industry that Boulding was a writer/editor for prior to his passing. ———————————- It’s with an extremely heavy […]
eurweb.com Actor Jay Leggett, a cast member in Keenan Ivory Wayans’ sketch comedy series “In Living Color,” died November 23, after collapsing on a deer hunt, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. He was 50. Leggett’s death is […]
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (AP) — Merrell Williams Jr., a one-time Kentucky paralegal who took on Big Tobacco as a whistleblower who leaked internal documents exposing health risks and the addictiveness of cigarettes, has died in Mississippi, […]
By David Stokes/NNPA
Special To The Mississippi Link
After suffering a massive stroke and its debilitating effects for over a week, Mrs. Evelyn Gibson Lowery, wife of civil rights leader Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, and founder and board chair of SCLC/WOMEN (Women’s Organizational Movement for Equality Now), Inc., died last week in her southwest Atlanta home upon leaving a local hospital after doctors asserted there was nothing more medically that could be done for her… […]
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