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“Our dear brother Donny passed away early this morning at home, peacefully, surrounded by family,”

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She was known as "The Queen of Basketball!"

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(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File) 

André Leon Talley, a towering and highly visible figure of the fashion world who made history as a rare Black editor in an overwhelmingly white industry, has died. He was 73.

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Mrs. Dollarson was a pivotal elder in our community. She was a woman of great strength, wisdom, and generosity.

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Sidney Poitier, the groundbreaking actor who transformed how Black people were portrayed on screen and became the first Black actor to win an Academy Award for best lead performance, has died.

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She would have turned 100 on Jan. 17.

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Mary Alice Jervay Thatch (Photo/NNPA) 

Mary Alice Jervay Thatch, the third-generation editor and publisher of The Wilmington Journal, died December 28 at the age of 78.

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Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has died at 90

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(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) 

Bob Dole lay in state at the U.S. Capitol, as many gathered to pay tribute to a “giant of our history” who served the country in war and in politics with pragmatism, self-deprecating wit and a bygone era's sense of common civility and compromise.

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Harry C. Alford 

President/CEO and Co-Founder of the National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC), Harry C. Alford, passed away on December 6, in Washington, DC.

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The Skanner Foundation's 38th Annual MLK Breakfast

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