Brown shattered records during a relatively short NFL career, leading the Cleveland Browns to their last championship in 1964, appeared in more than 30 films, and was a prominent leader in the Black power movement of the 1960s
READ MOREGrace Bumbry, a pioneering mezzo-soprano who became the first Black singer to perform at Germany's Bayreuth Festival during a career of more than three decades on the world's top stages, has died
READ MOREJerry Springer, the onetime mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show featured a three-ring circus of dysfunctional families willing to bare all on weekday afternoons including brawls, obscenities and blurred images of nudity, died Thursday at 79.
READ MOREBelafonte died Tuesday of congestive heart failure at his New York home, his wife Pamela by his side
READ MOREBradbury established Oregon’s vote-by-mail system, advocated for environmental issues and ran for governor, all while battling multiple sclerosis for more than 40 years.
READ MOREWalter C. Cole, better known as the iconic drag queen who performed for decades as Darcelle XV, has died of natural causes. Cole was 92.
READ MOREWallace Hicks Jr. passed away peacefully on March 3, 2023. Most if his friends knew him as "Joseph the Barber," but he was fondly known as "Junie" by his family
READ MORERichardson was the first Black member of the Salem-Keizer school board.
READ MOREJeanette Lejune Plummer was born February 11, 1921 to Ernest M. and Helen Jeanette
READ MOREThe Pointer Sisters was the first African American group to perform on the Grand Ole Opry program
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