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 […]
TRINIDAD Sir Ellis Clark, the first President of Trinidad has died at 92. Clark helped create Trinidad and Tobago’s constitution and was the country’s first President after the country ceased to be a republic of England in 1976. Clark was knighted by Queen Elizabeth of England in 1972 and has served as an ambassador to […]
ST. PETERSBURG RUSSIA Bobby Farrell, the frontman for 70s disco group, Boney M, has died in St. Petersburg, Russia. Born Alfonso Farrell, he traveled from his native Aruba to Norway, where he began his singing career and eventually became the frontman the disco group “Boney M.” “Boney M” had two smash hits in the 80s […]
LOS ANGELES — Teena Marie, the “Ivory Queen of Soul” who developed a lasting legacy with her silky soul pipes and with hits like “Lovergirl,” ”Square Biz,” and “Fire and Desire” with mentor Rick James, has died. She was 54. The confirmation came from a publicist, Jasmine Vega, who worked with Teena Marie on her […]
Apostle Betty Peebles, the Senior Pastor of Jericho City of Praise church in Landover, Maryland has passed away according to their website. It is with a sorrowful spirit that I announce the passing to glory of my beloved mother and your beloved Apostle, Betty P. Peebles. Her smile will forever be etched in our hearts. […]
Ronald W. Walters, one of the country’s leading scholars of the politics of race, who was a longtime professor at Howard University and the University of Maryland, died Friday of cancer at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda. He was 72.
DETROIT (AP) — A 29-year-old Detroit man who once told police “I kill people for money” pleaded guilty Monday to eight murders, including the contract killing of a police officer’s wife.
