African-American opera pioneer Camilla Williams has died in Bloomington. She was 92.Williams’ attorney, Eric Slotegraaf, said in a statement that the soprano died Sunday.Indiana University Jacobs School of Music spokesman Alain Barker said Williams died of complications from cancer. The school says Williams became the first African-American female to appear with a major U.S. opera [...]
Since his debut in 1970, poet, novelist, pianist, composer, producer, and social activist Gil Scott-Heron has crisscrossed the cultural matrix. Like the works of fellow tunesmiths Woody Guthrie and Nina Simone, Scott-Heron’s songs provide aural snapshots of the struggles that shaped American life in the twentieth century. Born in Chicago in 1949, Scott-Heron imbibed the [...]
Plus-sized model and actress Mia Amber Davis best known from her role in the movie from Road Trip has died. According to a recent announcement on the Mia Amber Davis Facebook Fan page the model passed away sometime today. Beginning her career as an intern then production assistant for several television shows, such as “Ricki Lake”, [...]
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 [...]
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