Gone But Not Forgotten is the category where those well-known people who gave so much to society died
The U.S. actress Olympic Dukakis, born Olympia Mary Dukakis, died on May 1, 2021, at 89. She was born on June 20, 1931. Olympia Dukakis was an American actress, director, producer, teacher, and activist. She performed in over 130 stage…
Rapper DMX family, in a statement, said, “We are deeply saddened to announce today that our loved one, DMX, birth name of Earl Simmons, passed away at 50-years-old at White Plains Hospital with his family by his side after being…
Marvelous Marvin Hagler stopped Thomas Hearns in a fight that lasted less than eight minutes yet was so epic that it still lives in boxing lore. Two years later, he was so disgusted after losing a decision to Sugar Ray…
ICU Grandpa story: For nearly 15 years, David Deutchman — aka the “ICU Grandpa” — cuddled babies in the neonatal intensive care unit and played with ailing toddlers as a volunteer at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. His efforts to help…
Dr. J. Michael Lane, a globe-trotting epidemiologist who waged a 13-year war against the scourge of smallpox and led the final drive for its global eradication in 1977, when the last known vestige of the disease was snuffed out in…
Bernard Cohen was a civil liberties attorney and Democratic member of the Virginia House of Delegates; he died at age 68. On April 10, 1967, with co-counsel Philip Hirschkop, he presented an oral argument for the petitioners in Loving v. Virginia before the U. S. Supreme Court. On June 12,…
Fans of Chadwick Boseman woke up today Saturday morning to the devastating and shocking news that actor Chadwick Boseman died. From Jackie Robinson and Thurgood Marshall to James Brown, he embodied immortalized so many black legends and became one himself…
Tommy Joe Coffey, the Canadian Football League, and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats are mourning the passing Canadian Football Hall of Famer and Ticats’ Wall of Honour. Tommy Joe was diagnosed with lung cancer in June and died in St. Peter’s Hospital…
Helen Jones Woods was an African-American jazz musician who toured the country in the 1930s and ’40s, including in the Jim Crow South. This touring could be the start of a familiar story of racism on the road. But Woods’…
Sir Everton Weekes – The West Indian cricket family mourns one of its favourite sons of cricket after the death of the great Sir Everton Weekes. He is dead at 95.The Bajan batsman was feted as one of the three…
Micheal Bruney, nicknamed Mickey, was called to the Dominica local Bar in 1988. He served as a registrar, state attorney, and, until his death, as a magistrate. Bruney died Wednesday, June 24, 2020 In a statement, his family said they…
