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The Reigners Bible Church International was just under construction days before a huge event that attracted hundreds of people.
The cause of the blaze is unknown as authorities continue to scavenge through the rubble. A final death toll will probably be released in a few days.
The host of "Washington Week" and "PBS NewsHour" lost her battle to cancer on Monday.
Dania Cedeno-Delrosario tried to push her 7-year-old daughter out of the way as they were both struck when crossing the street.
Nicholas “Nick” Caldwell, one of the founding members of The Whispers singing group, passed away Tuesday.
Frances Cress Welsing, the Black author and psychiatrist whose 1991 work The Isis Papers; The Keys to the Colors introduced the world to the "melanin theory" and the "neuroses" of white supremacy, has died.
An amtrak train, on its way through Philadelphia, has reportedly derailed in the Port Richmond section of the city this evening. According to NBC Philadelphia,…
Via Foxbaltimore.com People are more likely to bee killed by bare hands than an assault rifle. But, Lawmakers are pulling together to initiate a ban on assault weapons. Assault with rifles are just a fraction of the killings in the United States. Read More. 2nd Bank Robber Who Escaped From Chicago High-Rise Prison Captured Slaves […]
NEW YORK-Robert L. Carter, a federal judge who helped form the case against segregation in the historic Brown Vs. Board Of Education Supreme Court trial has died at age 94 after complications from a stroke. Carter was part of Thurgood Marshall’s NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund as a lawyer and helped win the historic […]
NEW YORK — Pastor Zachery Tims was found dead at the W Hotel in Times Square. Tims was the Pastor of New Destiny Christian Center in Apopka, Florida. The New York Daily News Reports: It was not clear whether Tims was alone at the time of his death. The city’s medical examiner will perform an […]
LOS ANGELES-Charles “Bubba” Smith who played nine seasons in the NFL and starred in six “Police Academy” movies as officer Hightower has died at 66. TMZ reports: Law enforcement officials tell TMZ … LAPD received a 911 call at 12:54PM today — and officers responded to his home in the Baldwin Hills area. The fire […]
NEW YORK-Black historian, Manning Marable has died at age 60 of complications related to pneumonia. Marable was the the director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs in New York. The Root reports: A lifelong Marxist, Manning was a member of Committees of Correspondence […]