Veteran Grenada journalist died Sunday December 21st, 2014 ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, Monday December 22, 2014, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell led the tribute to veteran journalist Leslie Pierre, who died at the General Hospital here on Sunday night.…
The Commonwealth of Dominica has lost another veteran and dedicated journalist. It is with heavy hearts that we tell you that veteran female broadcaster Shermaine Green-Brown has passed away. She was a cherished member of the Dominica broadcasting community. Born…
Black feminist Dorothy Pitman Hughes died Dec. 1 in Tampa, Florida, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, said Maurice Sconiers of the Sconiers Funeral Home in Columbus, Georgia. Her daughter, Delethia Ridley Malmsten, said the cause was old…
Lewis Lee Lewis suffered a minor stroke in 2019. He was the last survivor of a generation of groundbreaking performers, including Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Little Richard. Lewis died at home in Memphis, Tenn. Jerry Lee Lewis, the hard-living,…
Bill Plante, whose tenure as a CBS News White House correspondent spanned the administrations of Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama, has died. Plante retired in 2016 after 52 years with the news division, a career that included coverage of the civil rights…
Anne Garrels was a longtime foreign correspondent for NPR and worked for NBC News and ABC news. She died of lung cancer on Wednesday, the network announced. Garrels was 71 years old. During her career, Garrels reported from the front lines…
NEW YORK (AP) — Bernard Shaw, former CNN anchor and a pioneering Black journalist remembered for his blunt question at a presidential debate and calmly reporting the beginning of the Gulf War in 1991 from Baghdad as it was under…
Patrick Watson, a broadcasting legend whose work in the industry spanned over five decades and helped create a trove of iconic Canadian content, has died. He was 92. Through work as a producer, author, television host and more, Watson helped…
According to his family, the top Argentine singer Diego Verdaguer died of COVID-19 complications. The Argentine singer-songwriter Diego Verdaguer had romantic hits such as “Corazón de Papel,” “Yo te amo,” and “Volveré”. He had more than 50 million copies of…
Dean Taylor was shy, leaned into unusual melodies and offbeat storylines, and was one of the few white performers on the Black-owned label. And despite lending his pen as co-writer on Motown hits and soaring to the top of the…
ET can confirm that Andre Leon Talley, a legendary fashion journalist who helped shape Vogue during his decades-long association with the magazine, died at age 73 on January 18, 2022. The news of the fashion icon’s death first broke on TMZ. Officials did not…
