Halle Berry wrote a touching tribute to trailblazing icon and friend Sidney Poitier, who died at age 94. The “Bruised” actor shared an Instagram post dedicated to Poitier hours after the Bahamas’ minister of foreign affairs reported his death on Friday. “An enormous part of my soul weeps at […]
According to bandmates George Clinton and Bootsy Collins, one of the founders of Parliament-Funkadelic , Calvin Simon, 79, died on Thursday. “We lost another original member of Parliament/Funkadelic. A friend, bandmate & a cool classic guy, Mr. Calvin Simon was a former member of Parliament/Funkadelic,” Collins posted on Instagram. View this post on Instagram […]
Timnit Gebru, an Ethiopian with Eritrean heritage, was a leading artificial intelligence computer scientist until she was fired from Google. Recently she launched her firm that was awarded $3.7 million in funding from the MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, Kapor Center, Open Society Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Illinois […]
Lawrence Brooks, the oldest World War II veteran, died Wednesday at 112 years old in his native Louisiana. Drafted in 1940, Brooks served in a segregated U.S. army as part of the mostly Black 91st Engineer Battalion where he climbed the ranks to Private 1st […]
Source: Raymond Boyd / Getty It’s a sad day for Staten Island Hip-Hop and R&B, and the world. Jessie Lee Daniels of The Force MD’s has reportedly died at 57. The singer’s management confirmed his passing on Facebook. At least 13 people killed —including 7 kids […]
Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL), the only person to win an election against Barack Obama, is expected to announce Tuesday that he will retire after his 15th term in Congress. Rush, 75, a longtime civil rights activist, told the Chicago Sun-Times he made the decision in recent weeks. His […]
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