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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...

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — bell hooks, the groundbreaking author, educator and activist whose explorations of how race, gender, economics and politics were intertwined...

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...

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...

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...

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...

By Greg Garrison AL.com Birmingham native Marshall Latimore, executive editor of the Atlanta Voice, a historic Black-owned newspaper, has died. He was 36. His mother, Mary Latimore of...

Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Vernon Jordan, who rose from humble beginnings in the segregated South to become a champion of civil rights before reinventing...

NBC News Dianne Durham, the first Black woman to win a USA Gymnastics national championship, died Thursday in Chicago following a short illness, her husband...

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in...