Entertainment

Diff’rent Strokes star Conrad Bain has died just weeks shy of his 90th birthday. He passed away in Livermore, California on Monday night. The actor is best known for playing beloved businessman Phillip Drummond, the adopted father of Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges’ young characters on the hit U.S. TV sitcom. His cause of death remains unknown, […]

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Terry Glover, the managing editor at EBONY Magazine passed away on December 24, 2012. Glover had been working at EBONY since 2006, when she became the senior editor for Ebony. com. She became managing editor in 2009. Linda Johnson Rice, Chairman of the Johnson Publishing Company and the daughter of EBONY founder Eunice W. Johnson, released a statement that reads: “Terry […]

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Thomas H. Mayfield, one of the original Tuskegee Airman and township resident for more than 40 years, has died. Mayfield died Friday of natural causes, his family said Saturday. He was 95. The retired lieutenant colonel earned distinction as one of the first black aviators in the U.S. armed forced and served in World War […]

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Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, who embodied a vanishing breed of liberal Republicanism before switching to the Democratic Party at the twilight of his political career, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer, his family announced. Specter died of complications from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at his home in Philadelphia, his family said. He was 82. […]

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Art Modell, former owner of the Baltimore Ravens has died. Modell passed away early this morning at Johns Hopkins Hospital where he was being treated for heart failure. Modell bought the Cleveland Browns in 1961 and moved the team to Baltimore in 1996. The team was renamed the Baltimore Ravens, and returned professional football to […]

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Sherman Hemsley, the actor who made the character George Jefferson famous in “The Jeffersons,” has died, El Paso cops tell TMZ. Hemsley died at his home in El Paso, Texas.Hemsley, who was 74, became famous during his appearances on “All in the Family.” The spin-off, “The Jeffersons” was a monster hit. He also starred in […]

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Patrice O’Neal, a fixture in the New York comedy scene for two decades who was most recently seen in the Comedy Central Roast Of Charlie Sheen, has passed away according to sources close to the comedian. Talk show host Opie of the Opie & Anthony Radio Show tweeted this morning, “Yes, it’s true that our […]

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Cleveland’s airwaves just got a little quieter. Chuck Collier, one of the city’s most popular and beloved radio hosts, has died. He was 65 years old. A spokesperson from WTAM 1100 confirmed that Collier passed away Thursday of a massive heart attack. He had reportedly been with family and friends in southern Ohio at the […]

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Cleveland’s airwaves just got a little quieter. Chuck Collier, one of the city’s most popular and beloved radio hosts, has died. He was 65 years old. A spokesperson from WTAM 1100 confirmed that Collier passed away Thursday of a massive heart attack. He had reportedly been with family and friends in southern Ohio at the […]

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The pastor of a Florida megachurch was found dead in a New York City hotel room on Friday. New York City police said 42-year-old Zachery Tims of Orlando was found dead on the floor of a room at the W Hotel in Times Square late Friday afternoon According to the police department, Tims was found […]

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The pastor of a Florida megachurch was found dead in a New York City hotel room on Friday. New York City police said 42-year-old Zachery Tims of Orlando was found dead on the floor of a room at the W Hotel in Times Square late Friday afternoon According to the police department, Tims was found […]

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Delois Barrett Campbell, a member of the award-winning Barrett Sisters trio who electrified audiences worldwide with their powerful gospel harmonies, died Tuesday. She was 85. Campbell died at a Chicago hospital after a long illness, her daughter, Mary Campbell said. The Barrett Sisters, raised on Chicago’s South Side and coached to sing by an aunt, […]