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Written by Nekesa Mumbi Moody, AP Entertainment Writer

Published: 04 October 2019

This 1972 file image shows singer and actress Diahann Carroll. (AP Photo/Jean-Jacques Levy, File) 

Although she was not the first Black woman to star in her own TV show, she was the first to star as someone other than a servant

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Written by The Skanner News

Published: 04 October 2019

 

Services will be held Saturday Oct 5, 2019 at Emmanuel Temple Church, 1033 N. Sumner Street

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Written by Genoa Barrow, Sacramento Observer

Published: 24 September 2019

Dr. William H. Lee, May 29, 1936 - Sept. 22, 2019 (Photo courtesy the Sacramento Observer) 

He was tireless in the fight for access and respect for Black journalists

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Written by By David Bauder, AP Media Writer

Published: 17 September 2019

 

The daughter of politicians who grew up to cover the family business in Washington for ABC News and NPR over several decades, died Tuesday in Washington of complications from breast cancer.

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Written by Dr. Sybil C. Mitchell, Special to The New Tri-State Defender

Published: 04 September 2019

Baxter Leach (Photo: Tyrone P. Easley) 

1968 Memphis Sanitation worker Baxter Leach mourned as ‘an honorable man’

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Written by Hillel Italie, AP National Writer

Published: 06 August 2019

In this May 29, 2012 file photo, author Toni Morrison receives her Medal of Freedom (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) 

Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced that Morrison died Monday night at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. Morrison's family issued a statement saying she died after a brief illness. "Toni Morrison passed away peacefully last night surrounded by family and friends," the family announced.

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Written by By Candace J. Semien The Drum/NNPA

Published: 25 July 2019

While leaning from the historic bus, archivist Sadie Roberts-Joseph delivers a presentation on the 1953 Baton Rouge Bus Boycott to tourist visiting the museum. Photo by James Terry III. 

For more than three decades, Sadie Roberts-Joseph was an exceptional force of civic and cultural life in Baton Rouge

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Written by David Koenig, AP Business Writer

Published: 09 July 2019

Ross Perot, the Texas billionaire who twice ran for president, has died, a family spokesperson said Tuesday, July 9, 2019. He was 89. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga, File) 

Perot, whose 19% of the vote in 1992 stands among the best showings by an independent candidate in the past century, died early Tuesday at his home in Dallas surrounded by his family.

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Written by The Skanner News

Published: 03 June 2019

 

Williams, who wrote for dozens of publications including The Skanner, passed away May 30

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Written by By SARAH ZIMMERMAN and ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press

Published: 29 May 2019

 

Longstanding state senator succumbs to cancer