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October 18, 2013
YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) — A 20-year-old Eastern Michigan football player was found shot to death Friday in an off-campus apartment…
October 14, 2013
DETROIT (AP) — Maxine Powell, who was responsible for developing the charm, grace and style of Motown Records' artists during…
October 14, 2013
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Adrian Peterson would have been forgiven for sitting this one out...
October 13, 2013
E! ONLINE - After responding to a call, police found the 26-year-old chef's body in Chicago, lying face up, unresponsive…
October 10, 2013
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker is canceling Senate campaign events in the wake of his father's…
October 10, 2013
NBC New York - A woman who had complained of feeling too drowsy from painkillers prescribed after a C-section 11…
October 7, 2013
TODAY - Linny Boyette, but he was perhaps better known as TODAY's superfan, has passed away at the age of…
October 4, 2013
MSNBC - Herman Wallace, a member of the “Angola 3,” died Friday morning, three days after a federal judge overturned…
September 27, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Friends, family and the civil rights community have been paying tribute to Evelyn Gibson Lowery who died…
September 26, 2013
(AP) - Ward died aboard a cruise ship in the Caribbean, according to the Brevard County, Fla., medical examiner's office.…
September 19, 2013
OPINION - Norton competed in one of the most competitive eras of boxing and found much success, while pushing arguably,…
September 18, 2013
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former heavyweight champion Ken Norton, who beat Muhammad Ali and then lost a controversial decision to…
September 16, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — Patti Webster, a longtime publicist who represented stars including Usher, Janet Jackson, Chris Paul and Alicia…
September 11, 2013
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Demetrius Newton, a civil rights attorney who represented icons like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King…
September 9, 2013
NBC PHILADELPHIA - Longtime radio legend and civic leader E. Steven Collins died early Monday from a heart attack while…
August 20, 2013
DETROIT (AP) — Elmore Leonard, a former adman who later became one of America's foremost crime writers, died Tuesday. He…
August 20, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — Albert Murray, the influential novelist and critic who celebrated black culture, scorned black separatism and was…
August 8, 2013
NBC Bay Area - A 1-year-old boy was gunned down Wednesday morning in Oakland.
August 5, 2013
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Julius Chambers, a Charlotte attorney whose practice was in the forefront of the civil rights movement…
August 1, 2013
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — John Edward Allen, a New Mexico veteran who served as a Tuskegee Airman during World War…