Helen Lenn Keller, an Oakland photographer and filmmaker who documented queer culture in the Bay Area and founded the Bay Area Lesbian Archives, has died of...
Maxwell Claude Gillette, age 93, died Dec. 10, 2020, at Sutter Health Hospital, Van Ness Campus, where he was being treated for lung cancer. Born in...
Black America lost two of its iconic figures this month. Both born in 1934, Rafer Lewis Johnson died of a stroke on December 2 in Los...
Denise Adele Gums, an innovative organizer and activist around all things related to the African Diaspora, immigrant rights and the rights of indigenous people everywhere, passed...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The legislator, freedom fighter and justice warrior, who was famously beaten, bloodied and arrested in Selma, Alabama — and in other cities across...
Rev. Dr. Charles Larkrith, 101, went from labor to freedom in Oakland, passing peacefully on July 4, 2020. He was born during the worldwide pandemic...
William “Bill” Casey, a truly dutiful and faithful member of Bethel AME Church, passed away on March 23, 2020. A celebration of his life was held...
Claudell Washington, a two-time Major League Baseball All-Star and World Series champion died Wednesday at the age of 65, losing a three year battle with prostate...
Carl Robert Hampton, affectionately known as “Cowboy” to family and close friends, was born on February 7, 1942, in Gulfport, Miss., to the parents of Louis...
“Black Enterprise” founder Earl G. Graves Sr. passed away late Monday evening at the age of 85. An icon in the print magazine business, Graves created...
Rev. Joseph Lowery was a civil rights giant. He was a Methodist preacher, a leader of the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, an organizer of the...
Yanci Taylor celebrates his 96th birthday on February 24, 2020. He was born in a rural town of Lot, Texas, in 1924 to Yanci Taylor Sr....
Dr. Raye Gilbert Richardson was born in Brinkley Arkansas in 1920 and raised in Waukegan Ill., by her father William Gilbert. Raye was 99 years of...
Noah Alexander Kendrix, was born on Dec. 17, 1995. He was a long-time resident of Oakland and Hercules, CA. He departed this life on Feb. 6,...
Paul Anthony Daniels passed away peacefully Feb. 4, 2020 at the age of 81, after a sudden illness. He will always be remembered as a wonderful...
Sam Greer, son of the late Gertrude and Sam Creer, was born March 21, 1920 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was the eldest of 12 siblings. ...
Former professional football player Wendell Hayes completed his earthly journey on Saturday, Dec. 28, 2019. An all-around athlete, Hayes was born on Aug. 5, 1940, and...
Jean Elizabeth Wiley, a renowned Bay Area scholar, journalist, teacher and activist, transitioned on Dec. 9, 2019. In her wide-ranging work, she demonstrated the possibilities of...
The Bay Area lost a legendary musician, Arthur Eugene Cummings on Dec. 28, 2019. His parents, who were from the Caribbean islands of Barbados...
The Williams-Day-Evans families say, “Thank you!” for honoring Ismael Williams Sr. who was truly beloved by many. We express our heartfelt appreciation for the outpouring of...
The owner of Gerson/Overstreet Architects, Mr. Harry Overstreet, has died at the age of 81. The Conehatta, Miss., native had been integrally involved with the field...
Attorney Stanley P. Hébert, 97, a long-time resident of Oakland, California passed away in the early morning of Nov. 17, 2019. at St. Paul’s Towers Oakland....
Jerry Amos Smith, a resident of Marin, passed away on Oct. 5, 2019. Smith’s memorial service was held on Nov. 16, 2019, at the Peoples Inter-Cities...
Just 24 hours after sitting on a panel in front of 5,000 Black techies at the annual AfroTech gathering at the Oakland Convention Center, Bernard Tyson,...
Odessa Everette Sutton was born Feb. 22, 1922, in North Little Rock, Ark., to Henrietta and Herbert Smith and passed away on Nov. 1, 2019, at...
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