Boston Celtics legend Bill Russell, one of professional basketball’s greatest players and the sport’s most crowned champion, has died at the age…
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Former U.S. Rep. John Conyers, whose 15-year fight to pass legislation that would make Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday a federal…
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Frank Robinson, a trailblazing figure who was Major League Baseball’s first African American manager and one of its greatest players during a…
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Popular R&B singer James Ingram died on January 29 at age 66 at his home in Los Angeles. With his strong vocals…
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Born on May 11, 1906, Richard Arvin Overton, a member of what is often called America’s ‘Greatest Generation,’ died on December 27…