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(AURN News) — Dr. Richard E. Holmes, the first Black student to enroll at Mississippi State University, died Oct. 16 at age…
(AURN News) — Curtis Flowers, a Black man who spent nearly 23 years imprisoned in Mississippi, has died at 56, according to…
(AURN News) — R&B singer Freddie Jackson, best known for the 1985 hit “You Are My Lady,” died Monday night at 70,…
(AURN News) — Actor and comedian Reggie McFadden, best known for “Def Comedy Jam” and “In Living Color,” has died at 57,…
(AURN News) — Mighty Sparrow, the Trinidadian singer, songwriter and guitarist known as the “king of calypso,” died Sunday at a hospital…
(AURN News) — Pioneering BET personality and radio host Angela Stribling has died at 58, PEOPLE reported. Journalist Ed Gordon, who worked…
(AURN News) — Leon Stapleton, Kansas City’s first African American grocer, has died at 100, according to WDAF-TV. Stapleton opened what became…
(AURN News) — Rosalind Ashford, an original member of Martha and the Vandellas, has died at 83, according to The Hollywood Reporter.…
(AURN News) — Country music legend Dolly Parton has died at 80 after a brief battle with cancer. Parton built a career…
(AURN News) — Country music legend Dolly Parton died Tuesday, Aug. 25, at 80. Her team said she had been facing a…
(AURN News) — Actor Michael Wright, known for his role as Eddie King Jr. in the 1991 musical drama “The Five Heartbeats,”…
(AURN News) — Charles Walker Sr., Georgia’s first Black Senate majority leader, has died at 78, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. A…