Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in “Sounder,” won a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers’ hearts in “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” died Thursday at age 96.

Viral singing sensation Duranice Pace of Atlanta’s acclaimed gospel group, The Anointed Pace Sisters, died Thursday, Jan. 14. She was 62.

“I am incredibly sad right now,” said Sherri Shepherd who detailed the first and only time that she and Desselle Reid connected on a deep, personal level.

Actress Natalie Desselle-Reid, known for her roles in Cinderella and B.A.P.S (Black American Princess) has passed away from colon cancer at the age of 53.

Lucille Bridges, the mother of civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, who walked with her then-6-year-old daughter past crowds screaming racist slurs as she became the first Black student at her all-white New Orleans elementary school, has died at the age of 86.

We are praying. Chrissy Teigen said she and John Legend are in “deep pain” following her miscarriage, which she announced in a heart wrenching social media post.

The father of New England Patriots’ running back James White was killed Sunday in a car crash in Florida, authorities said. The wreck that killed Tyrone White happened around 1 p.m. in Cooper City, Florida, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

As the public grapples with the fresh loss of “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman, Letitia Wright, who played Shuri— the spunky, intelligent onscreen sister of Boseman’s character King T’Challa— is revealing that their brother-sister bond was real off-screen.

As his Hollywood career boomed, Boseman was privately undergoing “countless surgeries and chemotherapy” to battle colon cancer, his family said in a statement announcing his death at age 43 on Friday. He’d been diagnosed at stage 3 in 2016 but never spoke publicly about it.

We are praying for Vanessa Bryant who posted a beautiful and heartbreaking message to her late husband Kobe Bryant and their daughter Gianna on what would have been the NBA superstar’s 42nd birthday Sunday, Aug. 23.

John Lewis was mourned, revered and celebrated as an American hero on Thursday at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, a sacred place for many of those who helped to shape civil rights history.

People paid great heed to John Lewis for much of his life in the civil rights movement. But at the very beginning — when he was just a kid wanting to be a minister someday — his audience didn’t care much for what he had to say.

After prayers went out across the nation for her safe return, a missing Clark Atlanta University student has been found dead, authorities said Friday. The body of Alexis Crawford, 21, was found at a park in DeKalb County, Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields said at a news conference.

Two popular Christian recording artists are on our prayer list as they grieve the unexpected, untimely deaths of their children this week. Micah Stampley’s 15-year-old daughter Mary Stampley, and TobyMac’s 21-year-old son Truett Foster McKeehan, have both passed away.

Investigators searching through garbage found the body of a 3-year-old girl who was missing more than a week, and authorities are charging two people with murder, police said. Birmingham Police Chief Patrick Smith told a news conference that the remains of Kamille McKinney were located in a trash bin.

Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings died early Thursday at Johns Hopkins Hospital due to complications from longstanding health challenges, his congressional office said. He was 68. A sharecropper’s son, Cummings became the powerful chairman of a U.S. House committee.

Authorities say Joshua Brown, a key witness in the Amber Guyger murder trial, was shot and killed in a drug deal gone bad. Dallas police say they have identified three Louisiana men linked to the crime, but skeptics suspect a police cover-up and doubt the validity of the story.

A creative vacation proposal turned deadly, leaving a would-be fiancé, who should be celebrating, grieving the loss of her potential husband. While vacationing in Tanzania, Kenesha Antoine’s boyfriend Steven Weber Jr. proposed to her underwater, but never made it back to the surface.

Juanita Abernathy, who wrote the business plan for the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and took other influential steps in helping to build the American civil rights movement, died Thursday. She was 88. A family spokesman confirmed she died following complications from a stroke.

The girlfriend of Browns defensive end Chris Smith was killed in a roadside accident that happened after his car spun out on the highway. Petara Cordero, 26, who had just a welcomed a baby with Smith less than a month ago, died when she was struck by an oncoming car at around 2 a.m. Wednesday.