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Rap star Heavy D dies after collapsing at home
BEVERLY HILLS – A man who was as smooth as he was talented, and helped shape rap music in the late 80s and early 90s, died Tuesday at the age of 44. Heavy D, who […]
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Buffalo Bills’ lineman Kent Hull buried in Greenwood
Former owner of Winona truck stop GREENWOOD – James Kent Hull, one of the best players in the Buffalo Bills’ Super Bowl era and one of the strongest leaders the team has ever has seen, […]
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Funeral held for Alcorn coach killed by train
BATON ROUGE, La. – Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon in Louisiana for Alcorn State’s first year Strength and Conditioning Coach Thomas Alvin “Zeus” Hall. Hall, 40, was killed on Sunday, Oct. 16, when he apparently […]
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Nick Ashford of ‘Ashford and Simpson’ dies of throat cancer
NEW YORK – Long before the soaps invented the so-called, “Super Couple,” the music industry already had one, with Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson. And Ashford and Simpson were truly a super couple in every […]
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Thompson leads efforts for building name change
It was June 21, 1964, when Ku Klux Klan members in Neshoba County, Miss. killed three young civil rights workers, who were in Mississippi participating in Freedom Summer, an intensive voter registration drive aimed at […]
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Bluesman Big Jack Johnson, dead at 70
MEMPHIS – Despite conflicting reports over the weekend that Delta blues musician Big Jack Johnson had died, sources close to his family confirmed that Johnson, affectionately known as the “Oil Man” died Monday morning, March 14, […]
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R&B singer, Teena Marie, dead at 54
LOS ANGELES – Sources have confirmed that Teena Marie, the blue-eyed songbird known for her soulful ballads and funky dance tunes during the 1980s and 90s, including, “Lovergirl,” “Behind The Groove” and “I Need Your […]
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In Memoriam: George Albert ‘Shake’ Harden
George Albert “Shake” Harden was born in Natchez, Miss. Nov. 4, 1944 to the late Freddie L. Harden Sr. and Dora Hogue Harden. Shake’s love for his family and enthusiasm for education and community awareness […]
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MDOT commissioner Bill Minor falls ill at meeting; dies
JACKSON – Officials at the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) announced the death of Northern District Transportation Commissioner and Chairman William Minor. “Commissioner Minor was rushed to the Biloxi Regional Medical Center after 8 a.m. […]
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In Memoriam: Dr. Albert Bazaar Britton, Jr.
It was no accident or stroke of luck that Dr. Albert Bazaar Britton Jr. was the first African-American physician admitted to the staff of Baptist Hospital in Jackson, Miss. The life he began in Enterprise, […]