Emmy-winning CBS News correspondent Harold Dow, who helped shape the documentary program “48 Hours” and covered the kidnapping of Patricia Hearst and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, died on Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010, at age 62. Dow won an Association of Women in Radio and Television Gracie Allen Award in 2001. He has also [...]
Manute Bol, who was one of the tallest players in NBA history and gained stature off the court for his efforts to save lives in his homeland of Sudan, has died. He was 47. Bol worked closely as an advisory board member of Sudan Sunrise, which promotes reconciliation in Sudan. Bol remains the second-tallest player [...]
Siphiwo Ntshebe, the South African opera singer chosen by Nelson Mandela to perform at the World Cup opening ceremony, has died from meningitis. He was due to perform his new track Hope at the opening ceremony in Johannesburg on June 11. Siphiwo Ntshebe was born in 1974 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, known today as [...]
Anthony Harley, better known to the Go-Go community as “Little Benny” died at 46 on May 30. Harley was a Washington trumpet player who helped define the city’s homegrown style of funk music as a member of the Rare Essence go-go band during the 1980s. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty released the following statement following the death [...]
Jazz pianist and composer Hank Jones has died at 91 years of age. Manager Jean Pierre Leduc says Jones died Sunday night at a hospital in New York after a brief illness. Jones won a Grammy lifetime achievement award last year and received the National Medal of Arts in 2008. He also worked as an [...]
The great Lena Horne has died at age 92. Horne died Sunday at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, according to hospital spokeswoman Gloria Chin. The ground-breaking singer, actress and civil rights activist who, was the first African-American performer to be put under contract by a major studio. Although her movie career spanned nearly six decades and included a smattering [...]
Dorothy I. Height, 98, a founding matriarch of the American civil rights movement whose crusade for racial justice and gender equality spanned more than six decades, died early Tuesday morning of natural causes, a spokesperson for the National Council of Negro Women said. Statement by the President on the Passing of Dr. Dorothy Height Michelle [...]
Civil Rights Icon and former Executive Director of the NAACP Mr. Benjamin Hooks died Thursday in Memphis after a long illness. He was 85 years of age. Hooks took over as the NAACP’s executive director when the organization’s stature had diminished in 1977, serving at this post for 15 years. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1925, [...]
On March 31, Eugene Allen a longtime butler of the White House died of renal failure at Washington Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park. Born July 14, 1919, in Scottsville, Va Mr. Allen worked as a waiter at the Homestead resort in Hot Springs, Va., and later at a country club in Washington. In 1952, he heard of a job [...]
J. Bruce Llewellyn a national entrepreneur and role model in the American business community died on April 8, at 82 years of age. He was best known as Chairman of the Board and CEO of The Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling Company, the nation’s largest Black-owned firm. Born to Jamaican immigrants, Mr. Llewellyn was raised in Harlem and joined the [...]
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