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For theGrio, Richard Prince pens obituaries for Black journalists Valerie Boyd, Askia Muhammad and Renee Poussaint.
The acclaimed academic also edited an upcoming collection of journals by Alice Walker, who called her "one of the best…
Vogue's former editor-at-large was a trailblazer in his field. So why did the magazine seem to treat his death as…
Calvin Simon, co-founder, vocalist of Parliament-Funkadelic and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, has died at age 79
A true Hollywood legend has passed away. Academy Award-winning actor and activist Sidney Poitier has died, according to Bahamian...
theGrio gathered four burgeoning Black women writers to ask how hooks' work, life and scholarship affected them in the present.
Dr. Charles Johnson was the first Black faculty member in the Duke University School of Medicine and first Black physician…
Touré reflects on the death of friend and mentor, writer and critic Greg Tate, who he writes was "extremely Black…
Dennis Thomas was "the quintessential cool cat in the group," Kool & the Gang said in announcing the musician's passing…
Frederick S. Humphries' 16 years leading the school are known as its “golden years" that saw enrollment double and a…
A Democrat, Beatty was elected to the Ohio House in 1979, advocating for minority-owned businesses and the disadvantaged.
Gregory Kellam Scott, the only Black justice to serve on the Colorado Supreme Court, is remembered as a role model…
Ken Kelly's inventions contributed to the Space Race, satellite TV and radio. He also helped erase race barriers in the…
Antoine Hodge, an acclaimed opera singer and native of Georgia, has died after battling complications of COVID-19 for months.
Theodore Lumpkin Jr. was just days short of his 101st birthday. Tuskegee Airmen were the first Black pilots in the…
K.C. Jones was an Olympic gold medalist, two-time NCAA champion and eight-time NBA champion before winning two more as a…
“Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek died Sunday after battling pancreatic cancer for nearly two years. He hosted the show for 30…
Dr. Irving P. McPhail, who became president of St. Augustine's University this summer, died days after testing positive for coronavirus.
One of baseball’s most uncompromising competitors, the two-time Cy Young Award winner was also named the World Series MVP twice…
News of the five-time Grammy nominee’s ill-health comes just weeks after his last known performance for Jamaica's Independence celebrations.