Death

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KABUL, Afghanistan – A single-file line of school children walked past a military checkpoint Sunday as a bomb-loaded truck veered toward them and exploded, ending the lives of 14 young Afghans in a heartbreaking flash captured by a U.S. military security camera.

The tragic premature death of Billey Joe Johnson of Mississippi has the black community and the sports nation up in arms about the circumstances surrounding it. The NAACP has intervened on the Johnson family's behalf to examine the sordid details.

The racial gap in colon cancer death rates is widening, a new report says, and experts partly blame blacks’ lower screening rates and poor access to quality care.

  NEW YORK (AP) Odetta, the folk singer with the powerful voice who moved audiences and influenced fellow musicians for a half-century, has died. She was 77.

From Reuters:   NEW YORK (Reuters) – A man working for Wal-Mart was killed on Friday when a throng of shoppers surged into a Long Island, New York, store and physically broke down the doors, a police spokesman said.

According to People magazine, Kanye West’s cousin, Stephan Scoggins, is being investigated by California authorities for his role in the death of his Aunt, Donda West, Kanye’s mother.

Terrence Tolbert, the State Director for Obama’s campaign in Nevada, died of a heart attack yesterday. He was a former aide to NYC schools chancellor Joel Klein and Mayor Mike Bloomberg.

CHICAGO – It was the cradle of her greatest triumphs. It’s now the scene of her darkest hour. Oscar-winning actress and singer Jennifer Hudson has often credited her rise to fame to her upbringing in the impoverished neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side where she went to grade school and sang in church. At that church, […]