Obituary

Show At MTV Europe Music Awards 2005

Trugoy the Dove, founding member of De La Soul, dead at 54

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Jo Mersa Marley, grandson of Bob Marley, dead at 31

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GRAMMY Salute to Music Legends - Backstage and Audience

Thom Bell, legendary Philadelphia composer-producer, dead at 79

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Sidney Poitier, Nichelle Nichols, Bill Russell, André Leon Talley and Irene Cara

In memoriam: People we lost in 2022

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Former Syracuse star, Knicks player Louis Orr dies at 64

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‘Fame’ and ‘Flashdance’ singer-actor Irene Cara dies at 63

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Remembering Rev. Dr. Calvin Butts: A champion of political and social justice

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Sergio Mims, cofounder of the Gene Siskel Film Center’s Black Harvest Film Festival, dies at 67

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Hector Lopez, American baseball trailblazer, dies of lung cancer at 93

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Maury Wills, base-stealing shortstop for Dodgers, dies at 89

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New Orleans political patriarch Moon Landrieu has died

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Lamont Dozier, Motown songwriter who worked on ‘You Can’t Hurry Love,’ has died at 81

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AJ Crimson theGrio.com

The beauty industry mourns makeup pioneer AJ Crimson

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Mourning three Black journalists: Valerie Boyd, Askia Muhammad and Renee Poussaint

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Valerie Boyd

Valerie Boyd, biographer of Zora Neale Hurston, has died at 58

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Andre Leon Talley

In life and death, André Leon Talley deserved better

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Calvin Simon, co-founder of Parliament-Funkadelic, has died

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Oscar-winning actor Sidney Poitier is dead at 94

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bell hooks thegrio.com

What bell hooks taught us

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Dr. Charles Johnson, Duke medical school pioneer, dies at 94

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