TCHULA – Funeral services were held Saturday for Mississippi’s first black Republican female mayor, Yvonne Rayford Brown. Brown, 59, died of cancer on Monday, April 23, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Columbus. The funeral began […]
NEW YORK – (AP) Adam Yauch, the gravelly voiced Beastie Boys rapper and the most conscientious member of the seminal hip-hop group, died of cancer Friday, his mentor Russell Simmons confirmed. Yauch was 47. Simmons’ […]
LOS ANGELES, Ca. – (AP) Dick Clark, the ever-youthful television host and producer who helped bring rock ‘n’ roll into the mainstream on “American Bandstand” and rang in the New Year for the masses at […]
LOS ANGELES, Ca. – (AP) Dick Clark, the ever-youthful television host and producer who helped bring rock ‘n’ roll into the mainstream on “American Bandstand” and rang in the New Year for the masses at […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – (AP) Tenor saxophonist Andrew Love, who formed the award-winning Memphis Horns duo with trumpeter Wayne Jackson and played unforgettable lines behind the royalty of soul, rock, pop and R&B, died Thursday, April […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – (AP) Tenor saxophonist Andrew Love, who formed the award-winning Memphis Horns duo with trumpeter Wayne Jackson and played unforgettable lines behind the royalty of soul, rock, pop and R&B, died Thursday, April […]
From The Chicago Sun-Times Lacy was from Coahoma County, Miss. Lacy J. Banks was an unconventional pioneer. He was a trailblazer as the first African-American sportswriter for the Sun-Times, a job that led him to […]
NEW YORK (AP) – Fans worldwide who want to bid Whitney Houston farewell will be able to watch her private funeral on the Internet. Her publicist, Kristen Foster, announced that The Associated Press will be […]
From The New York Times INDIANAPOLIS – African-American opera pioneer Camilla Williams who paved the way for opera singers Marian Anderson and later Kathleen Battle, died Jan. 29 at her home in Bloomington. Williams was […]
LOS ANGELES – There is no doubt that Don Cornelius and ‘Soul Train’ were to black America what Dick Clark and American Bandstand was to white America, maybe even more so, simply because white musicians […]
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