Madison had battled prostate cancer.
Dexter Scott King, the youngest son and third child of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, has died.
Marlena Shaw, the singer behind "California Soul" and "Woman of the Ghetto", has died.
Rivers worked as a VJ on VH1 in 1985 alongside Rosie O’Donnell.
Actor Andre Braugher died from lung cancer a few months after he was diagnosed with the disease, his representative said.
Ellen Holly, the first Black actor to star in a soap opera with a lead role on “One Life To Live,” has died. She was 92.
Richard Roundtree, a pioneer in cinema, has passed away at the age of 81.
Hughes Van Ellis, one of the last three known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has passed away.
Lisa Thornton, the first black woman appointed as an assignment judge in NJ’s court system, has died.
Legendary singer Tina Turner, known as the Queen of Rock-N-Roll, has died at the age 83 after a long illness.
