The father of actor Ben Stiller played the father of George Costanza on the hit sitcom.
As a genre-fluid, flamboyant singer and showman, Little Richard went on to influence the likes of James Brown, Prince, the Rolling Stones and many more.
Harrell was a former recording artist who became one of the music industry's most powerful and influential executives. He was 59.
Small became known for her smash 1964 hit "My Boy Lollipop" which became Jamaica's first single to chart in American and Britain.
The New Haven, Conn. rapper first began as a dancer for EPMD before breaking out on his own as a rapper in 1989. He was 51.
Graves, a Brooklyn, New York native, graduated from Morgan State University and worked for the SBA ahead of starting his magazine enterprise in the 1970s.
Roger Mayweather was also a boxing champion and considered one of the elite trainers in the sport.
Katherine Johnson, a pioneering mathematician and NASA employee who helped usher in a new era of space travel, has died. Johnson was one of a trio of women that inspired the book and film Hidden Figures, and many on Twitter are gathered in honoring her contributions to science.
Ja’Net DuBois, a longtime actress most known for her role as Wilona Woods on the popular sitcom Good Times, has died. News of her passing on Tuesday (Feb. 18) began trending across social media with fans mourning the loss.
J. Scott, a member of the sprawling A$AP Mob collective, passed away over the weekend due although the cause of his death is unknown. Members of the Mob and others in the Hip-Hop community paid their respects online.
The world of professional wrestling has lost one of its pioneers in Rocky “Soulman” Johnson, who made history as one-half of the first Black tag-team champions in the WWE. The father of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson passed on Wednesday (Jan. 15).
New Orleans and the Hip-Hop nation abroad are gathered in mourning and in celebrating the life of Bounce music legend, 5th Ward Weebie. The rapper born Jerome Cosey, passed from a heart attack according to published reports.
