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February 4, 2013

Essie Mae Washington: Strom Thurmond's mixed-race daughter dies at 87

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February 1, 2013

Ed Koch, mayor who became a symbol of NYC, dies at 88

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January 30, 2013

Hadiya Pendleton, teen performer at Obama inaugural events, fatally shot in Chicago

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January 28, 2013

Cissy Houston on Whitney: 'She was raised well, she knew better' than to use drugs

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January 28, 2013

Ohio Players frontman Leroy 'Sugarfoot' Bonner dead

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January 18, 2013

James Hood dies; defied segregation at University of Alabama

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January 18, 2013

Robert F. Chew, who played 'Prop Joe' on 'The Wire', dead at 52

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January 17, 2013

Todd Bridges on Conrad Bain: ‘He treated me better than my own father’

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January 16, 2013

Conrad Bain, dad from ‘Diff’rent Strokes’, dead at 89

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January 11, 2013

6-year-old killed in hit and run

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January 9, 2013

Ned Wertimer, doorman on ‘Jeffersons,’ dies at 89

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January 8, 2013

2nd Amy Winehouse inquest confirms alcohol death

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January 6, 2013

AFL player Chandler Williams dies during flag footbal tournament at age 27

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January 5, 2013

Mamie Rearden, oldest living US citizen, dies at 114

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January 4, 2013

Atlanta rapper Yung Teddy shot to death

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December 28, 2012

Chicago may reach 500 homicides in 2012

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December 28, 2012

Terry Glover, Ebony managing editor, dies at 57

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December 27, 2012

'Rescue Me' singer Fontella Bass dead at 72

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December 27, 2012

theGrio remembers black icons we lost in 2012

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December 19, 2012

Robert Bork, whose failed Supreme Court nomination made history, dies

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