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Retired AME Episcopal Supervisor Mildred Primm Passes Away

February 21, 2021 Article Submitted Comments Off on Retired AME Episcopal Supervisor Mildred Primm Passes Away

Mrs. Mildred Elaine Nash Primm was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 21, 1919. She was the only daughter born to Wiss, Sr. and Annie C. Nash.  Mrs.  Primm was baptized in infancy in […]

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A Life Lived by Faith: Verleon Hunt Smithson Grant Passes Away

February 11, 2021 Article Submitted Comments Off on A Life Lived by Faith: Verleon Hunt Smithson Grant Passes Away

Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Verleon Hunt Smithson was born in Nashville, Tennessee at midnight on May 1, 1921, a mere eight years before the stock market crash. Her parents, the late John L. Smithson, Sr. and […]

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Longtime NBA Reporter and Television Analyst Sekou Smith Passes Away After Battle with COVID-19.

February 6, 2021 Article Submitted Comments Off on Longtime NBA Reporter and Television Analyst Sekou Smith Passes Away After Battle with COVID-19.

Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Sekou Smith, a longtime NBA reporter and television analyst, died Tuesday after a battle with COVID-19. He was 48. A native of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Smith went to college at Jackson State […]

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Jeh Vincent Johnson, Son of 6th President of Fisk University Charles Spurgeon Johnson, Passes Away

February 1, 2021 Article Submitted Comments Off on Jeh Vincent Johnson, Son of 6th President of Fisk University Charles Spurgeon Johnson, Passes Away

Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Fisk University joins the Johnson family in mourning the loss of Jeh Vincent Johnson, son of the iconic 6th President of Fisk University Charles Spurgeon Johnson and the father of former Secretary […]

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Former LeMoyne-Owen College Men’s Basketball Coach Jerry Johnson Passes Away

January 30, 2021 Article Submitted Comments Off on Former LeMoyne-Owen College Men’s Basketball Coach Jerry Johnson Passes Away

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Jerry Johnson, who coached men’s basketball at LeMoyne-Owen College for more than four decades, has died at age 102. “It is with a heavy heart that I make this post,” Anderson said […]

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Fisk Graduate Kelly C. Malone, Founder of KTM Home Health Services, Passes Away

January 25, 2021 Article Submitted Comments Off on Fisk Graduate Kelly C. Malone, Founder of KTM Home Health Services, Passes Away

Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Formerly of Nashville – Kelly Channel Collier Malone was born on the 2nd day of October 1973, in Nashville, Tennessee, to William Alexander Collier and Ingrid Charmaine Frazier Collier. She departed this […]

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Memphis Local Treasure: Miriam Decosta-Willis Passes at 86

January 21, 2021 Article Submitted Comments Off on Memphis Local Treasure: Miriam Decosta-Willis Passes at 86

By Jon W. Sparks  Editor’s Note: Dr. Miriam DeCosta-Willis, a trailblazing activist, distinguished academic, and prolific author, died Thursday, January 7, at her home at age 86. Last month, the University of Memphis honored her […]

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Bryan Monroe, Longtime Journalist and Former CNNpolitics.com Editor, Dies at 55

January 21, 2021 Article Submitted Comments Off on Bryan Monroe, Longtime Journalist and Former CNNpolitics.com Editor, Dies at 55

By Ray Sanchez, CNN Bryan Monroe, a journalism professor and former CNNPolitics.com editor who once headed the National Association of Black Journalists and helped guide the Biloxi Sun Herald to a Pulitzer Prize for coverage […]

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University of Memphis’ First Black Professor Dies

January 16, 2021 Article Submitted Comments Off on University of Memphis’ First Black Professor Dies

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) _ Miriam DeCosta-Willis, the University of Memphis’ first Black professor and a participant in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, has died, the school said. She was 86. DeCosta-Willis […]

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Civil Rights Activist Kwame Leo Lillard Dies

January 5, 2021 Article Submitted Comments Off on Civil Rights Activist Kwame Leo Lillard Dies

NASHVILLE, TN — Kwame Leo Lillard was the younger of two children born in Bartow, FL with a few grades completed there for schooling. With the entrepreneurial spirit in tow for a larger city, his […]

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