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*A public viewing for former Kris Kross rapper Chris Kelly was held Wednesday at an Atlanta funeral home, with the artist’s uncle among the mourners who spoke. “He will be very missed, especially within our family,” Lemar Williams said outside the Murray Brothers Funeral Home. “To the world he was Kris Kross, but to us [...]
*Chris Smith released an emotional note mourning of his Kris Kross partner and “best friend” Chris Kelly, one day after he was found dead on Wednesday of a suspected drug overdose. “Chris Kelly was my Best Friend. He was like a brother,” wrote Smith, known as Mac Daddy, in a statement, according to E! Online. [...]
*Famed folk singer Richie Havens, the opening act at the 1969 Woodstock music festival, died Monday of a sudden heart attack, his publicist said. He was 72. Havens, who retired three years ago, toured for more than 30 years and recorded 30 albums. He once told Billboard that his breakthrough at Woodstock came after another [...]
*Songwriter George Jackson, co-author of “Old Time Rock and Roll” and hundreds of other soul, rock and R&B tunes, has died following a battle with cancer. He was 68. Jackson died Sunday morning at his home in Ridgeland, a suburb of Jackson, said Thomas Couch Sr., board chairman of Malaco Records. He had been sick [...]
*Michael Clarke Duncan‘s family is giving a collective side eye to Omarosa Manigault, wondering if she influenced her late fiancée to rewrite his will months before he died and leave nearly everything to her. Judy Duncan, Michael’s sister, tells TMZ she’s hired a lawyer to investigate the circumstances surrounding the change to the actor’s will [...]
*The Chicago’s Sun-Times has announced that film critic Roger Ebert has died at age 70, after just yesterday announcing that his cancer had returned. Ebert announced on his website Wednesday that he was “taking a leave of presence” due to health issues. “I’ll be able at last to do what I’ve always fantasized about doing: [...]
*Motown songwriter-producer Deke Richards – leader of the Motown songwriting, arranging and producing team known as The Corporation – has died at a hospice at age 68. Richards, whose real name was Dennis Lussier, died Sunday at the Whatcom Hospice House, Peace Health St. Joseph Medical Center spokeswoman Amy Cloud confirmed Monday. He had been [...]
*Celebrated Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, who gave literary birth to modern Africa with Things Fall Apart and continued for decades to rewrite and reclaim the history of his native country, has died, reports the Associated Press. He was 82. Achebe died following a brief illness, said his agent, Andrew Wylie. “He was also a beloved [...]
*Lil Wayne was horrified by reports suggesting he was near death following a series of seizures last week, because he feared the news would upset his children. The rapper, real name Dwayne Carter, was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on March 12 after collapsing on the set of Nicki Minaj’s new video. [...]
*La Toya Jackson made some scathing allegations about Omarosa recently and backed them up on “Watch What Happens: Live.” The famous Jackson outcast accused the “All-Star Celebrity Apprentice” star of pulling the plug on Michael Clarke Duncan, who died of a heart attack last year. “Omarosa is the most evil person I have ever met,” [...]
*A little over a year later, after the hazing death of Florida A&M University drum major, 26-year-old Robert Champion, twelve former band mates have been charged with manslaughter. Two others have been charged in the incident as well. According to the Huffington Post, defendants are facing 15-year prison sentences. Champion died in November 2011 in [...]
*Chris Dorner may have been a hero to some and an evil maniac to others. Regardless, his death has been called into question by those who supported the vigilante and former LAPD officer. Some are wondering if Dorner was executed and the fire was just a cover up. Officers were careless when they shot at a truck [...]
*Actor Todd Bridges has spoken out about the death of his longtime TV dad Conrad Bain at age 89. For eight seasons, Bridges played the adopted son to Bain’s millionaire character Mr. Drummond on the hit NBC sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes.” Now the sole survivor of the show’s core cast — Dana Plato committed suicide in [...]
*In New Orleans, a man was found shot to death outside of a church in the 9th Ward on Sunday morning, police said according to The Times Picayune. The New Orleans Police Department said the man was found inside of a blue Chevy Malibu near the 3200 block of Pleasure Street, in front of the Greater Carver Missionary [...]
*There is nothing like the tragedy of losing a child, especially when you send your child to college and they fall prey to violence. That’s the last thing anyone would expect to happen to their child. Well, the Judith and James Jackson are still in shock after learning on Facebook that their daughter was found [...]
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