Mary Christine Brockert, better known to legions of R&B fans as Teena Marie, passed away in her sleep Christmas Night at age 54.     S...

Was saddened to hear that Barbara Billingsley, who played stay at home mom June Cleaver on the iconic television show Leave It To Beaver, p...

One of the people I eagerly read who has influenced much of the way I see things politically is political scholar and expert on African-Amer...

Was saddened to hear from my Canadian homegirl about a death in her family. She just told me her 20 year old nephew Jesse James Cox AKA ...

It's hard to believe that 15 years has passed since singer Phyllis Hyman committed suicide on this date a few days short of her 46th bir...

In the eight years I lived in Louisville, one of the first civic leaders I had the pleasure of meeting not long after moving there was trail...

I mentioned how much I love Frenchy's chicken and wrote a post honoring their 40th anniversary last year. Well, one of the co-foun...

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do the best of which you are capabl...

Another of the sheroes of the 60's civil rights movement has moved on. Dr. Dorothy Height, the Godmother of the women's movement&#...

Was shocked to hear as I tuned in to the TJMS that Teddy Pendergrass, one of my favorite soul singers of the 70's and early 80's die...

TransGriot Note: My latest post for Global Comment. One of the major reasons I don't like radical feminism is the virulent transphobia...

Today is the sad anniversary of the November 22, 1963 assassination of our 35th President of the United Sates, John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Da...

They say deaths come in threes, and that is especially true of celebrity ones. Farrah Fawcett died this morning, Ed McMahon a day ago, and...