GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) — Caribbean Community (Caricom) Secretary General Dr Carla Barnett says the regional body joins the people of Barbados in mourning the passing of George Lamming, the poet,…
“Obituaries are more than an accounting of the sunrise and sunset of someone’s life. It is a piece of history, a story well told, and a legacy for the next…
The Institute of the Black World 21st Century announces the ancestral transition of the Honorable Dr. Waldaba Stewart on January 1, 2022. A longtime friend and supporter of IBW21….
By Herb Boyd — It was almost a year ago that Arizona State University named its film school after Sidney Poitier. They enshrined him before the ages claimed him. Poitier,…
Sidney Poitier, who broke through racial barriers as the first Black winner of the best actor Oscar and inspired a generation during the civil-rights movement, has died at age 94.
Statement on passing of Archbishop Desmond The Institute of the Black World 21st Century joins with the world in mourning the loss Archbishop Desmond Tutu. His courage and moral force…
By Todd Leopold, Larry Madowo and Jessie Yeung, CNN — Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Anglican cleric whose good humor, inspiring message and conscientious work for civil and human rights…
‘The world is a lesser place today without her.’ Acclaimed author bell hooks dies at 69. By Linda Blackford, Lexington Herald Leader — bell hooks, a Hopkinsville native who went…
By Catherina Gioino, The Sun — Officers found the late assassinated Black civil rights leader’s daughter Malikah Shabazz dead on arrival in her New York home, with the medical examiner…
By Derek Major, Black Enterprise — Colin Luther Powell, the first Black Secretary of State, whose leadership in several Republican administrations shaped foreign policy, died at the age of 84…
Longtime social worker Joe Benton Joins the Ancestors. Nana Joe E. Benton August 10, 1946 – August 8, 2021 Our beloved Joe Elbert Benton, Jr made his transition to join…
By Herb Boyd — There is an abundance of serious scholars in the African American canon, but few as intrepid, wide-ranging, and resourceful as Runoko Rashidi. When you have interviewed…