Singing legend Etta James, best known for her hits like "WallFlower", "Something's Got a Hold On Me", and the wedding favorite “At Last” has died.

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.
Dwight Meyrs known as Heavy D, died from a pulmonary embolism caused by deep leg vein thrombosis.

A teen who was spanked by his uncle for boasting about gang ties on his Facebook was found shot to death nearby his New Orleans home.

Soul singer Howard Tate has died in his New Jersey apartment a decade after a career resurrection that followed years of tragedy and obscurity.

Comedian Patrice O’Neal has passed away after a long-term battle with diabetes. The news came today from the official Twitter stream of The Opie & Anthony...
Heavyweight contender Ron Lyle, who fought Muhammad Ali for the title in 1975 and later battled George Foreman, has died in Denver at age 70.

Joe Frazier, the former heavyweight boxing champion who gave Muhammed Ali his first defeat, died after a fight with liver cancer. He was 67.