James "Jimmy" Ellis best known for 1970s hit "Disco Inferno" has passed away. He was 74.
U.S. Rep. Donald Payne, 77, died today in New Jersey after a month-long battle with colon cancer.
Dick Williams, best known for his role as Pretty Tone in the blaxploitation film, “The Mack,” has died. He was 73.
Soul Train creator Don Cornelius was found dead in his home early this morning from an apparent suicide. He was 75 years old.
After suffering two strokes and a heart attack, comedian Todd Lynn has died.
Robert Hegyes, the actor best known for playing Jewish Puerto Rican student Juan Epstein on the 1970s TV show "Welcome Back Kotter" has died. He was...
The leading front man of the band Jimmy Castor Bunch died Monday Jan. 16th in Las Vegas. Jimmy Castor was 71.
Stewart Fulbright, a trailblazing black educator who piloted a bomber during World War II as one of the Tuskegee Airmen and later served as the first...
Sam Rivers, an internationally-known jazz musician who played with Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie, has died. He was 88.
Soul singer Howard Tate has died in his New Jersey apartment a decade after a career resurrection that followed years of tragedy and obscurity.
