The Georgia teenager who was first denied a heart transplant due to “non-compliance” and then given one in 2013, died Tuesday in a car crash while…
Article By Andrea Parker:: EEW Magazine It’s a bitter-sweet time in the life of GRAMMY® award-winning singer Dorinda Clark-Cole. As she celebrates career success, she mourns the loss of her dear father-in-law. Mr. Cleveland Cole, who will be laid to rest Monday, March 23 in Detroit, died Sunday at the age of 85. In a […]
Cheryl McClurkin died March 3, 2015 from a heart attack Article By Andrea Harris:: EEW Magazine In 2011 he lost his father. In 2013, 10 months later, he lost his mother. In 2015, his sister has gone home to be with the Lord. Understandably, Pastor Donnie McClurkin says he is “overwhelmed” with grief after Cheryl […]
GETTY Article By Artrina Hall:: EEW Magazine It has been more than four years since Grammy® award-winning pastor and recording artist Marvin Sapp lost his wife of 18 years to colon cancer. In a March 1 Facebook post, in honor of what would have been MaLinda Sapp’s 48th birthday, the single dad shared simple and […]
Our prayers go out for the Bernard family as they have lost their son, Alfonso Bernard, Jr. to an Asthma Attack, February 4, 2015. Continue to lift up his wife and children: Janel Bernard, Alfonson Bernard, III, Justin Bernard, Christian Bernard, and Karcyn Bernard. A. R. Bernard posted: Rev. A.R. and Pastor Karen Bernard and […]
Born on October 26, 1911, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Mahalia Jackson started singing as a child at Mount Moriah Baptist Church and went on to become one of the most revered gospel figures in the U.S. Her recording of “Move On Up a Little Higher” was a major hit and she subsequently became an international […]
Former Chicago Cubs shortstop, Ernie Banks—affectionately known in baseball circles as ‘Mr. Cub’—died Friday night at age 83. The cause of Banks’ death has yet to be revealed, but there was an immediate reaction both in and outside of baseball once the Cubs’ broke the news. ‘Michelle and I send our condolences to the family […]
We are praying for the Ellis Family and the entire church family as well in their hour of bereavement. source: theoldblackchurch.com
Andrae Crouch, a seven-time Grammy winner and gospel music legend, died Thursday at a Los Angeles-area hospital, his publicist said on his website. Crouch was 72 and had been hospitalized at Northridge Hospital Medical Center since Saturday. While Crouch was well-known for his gospel work with his choir, the Disciples, he also produced and arranged […]
Stuart Scott, a longtime anchor at ESPN, died Sunday morning at the age of 49. Among the features of the new ESPN studio in Bristol is a wall of catchphrases made famous by on-air talent over the years. An amazing nine of them belong to one man — from his signature “Boo-Yah!” to […]
Vanessa Bell Armstrong takes a photograph with her ailing son Terence before he passed away Dec. 4, 2014 (Credit: Instagram) Article By Seth Hamilton:: EEW Magazine News Reporter (EEW Magazine) Seven-time GRAMMY® nominee and Gospel Hall of Famer Vanessa Bell Armstrong, 61, is sending heartfelt thanks to her supporters as she mourns the recent loss […]
Norman Bridwell, creator of the popular Clifford the Big Red Dog series of children’s books turned into a PBS TV show, has died. Scholastic, his longtime publisher, says Birdwell died Friday in Oak Bluffs, Mass. He lived in Edgartown, Mass. Starting in 1963 with Clifford, the Big Red Dog, Bridwell wrote and illustrated more […]
