Tag: obituary
O.J. Simpson, Football Player and Actor Brought Down by Murder Trial,...
By KEN RITTER | Associated Press
LAS VEGAS — O.J. Simpson, the football star and Hollywood actor acquitted of charges he killed his former wife...
Louis Gossett Jr., First Black Man to Win Supporting Actor Oscar,...
By BETH HARRIS | Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy...
Dr. Sandral Hullett, Former CEO of Birmingham’s Cooper Green Mercy Hospital,...
By Barnett Wright | The Birmingham Times
Sandral Hullett, M.D., who became the first African American female hospital CEO in the state of Alabama as...
“She had an incredible heart for service, and an even bigger...
Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin speaking about Jill Madajczyk, a member of his senior leadership team who died two days before Christmas, birminghamtimes.com, Dec. 26.
In Memoriam 2021: Notables who Passed Away This Year
Compiled by Ryan Michaels
The Birmingham Times
In 2021, the world lost actors, musicians, athletes, activists, office holders and many others too soon. The losses were...
bell hooks, Groundbreaking Feminist Thinker, Dies at 69
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — bell hooks, the groundbreaking author, educator and activist whose explorations of how race, gender, economics and politics were intertwined...
Rep. Sewell Announces Celebration of Life for Mother, 81
The Birmingham Times
Rep. Terri A. Sewell (AL-07) on Monday announced details for the Celebration of Life Services for her mother, Nancy Gardner Sewell, who...
DMX, Hip-Hop Superstar, Dies at 50
MSN News
DMX, the gravel-voiced rapper and actor who topped the charts with tracks including "Party Up" and "X Gon’ Give It to Ya," has...
Actor Yaphet Kotto Of ‘Live And Let Die’ And ‘Alien’ Dies...
Associated Press
Yaphet Kotto, who played supervillain Mr. Big in “Live and Let Die” and starred in “Alien,” has died at the age of 81.
Kotto’s...
Boxing great Marvelous Marvin Hagler dies at 66
Associated Press
Marvelous Marvin Hagler stopped Thomas Hearns in a fight that lasted less than eight minutes yet was so epic that it still lives...
