Cross Post Now, Entertainment, Nation

As 2015 comes to a close, NewsOne remembers the entertainers, the influencers, the activists and the legends we lost this year.

Cross Post Now, Entertainment, Nation

Melvin Williams, an actor on The Wire, who was a big inspiration to the show's premise, has passed away at the age of 73.

Hank Williams, one of the few early African-American tech executives in Silicon Valley, died on Nov. 15 following a week-long stay at Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, New Jersey, according to Rollingout. He was being treated for complications from pneumonia and myocarditis, notes the report. He was 50. His company Platform joined forces with […]

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Veteran Indianapolis radio host and beloved media staple Amos Brown died Friday at his family's home in Chicago.

Monique Williams was readying her mother Ella Mae Rutledge's funeral service at the Leak and Sons Funeral Home in the South Side. But when she arrived to approve the body for visitation, Williams realized the woman looked nothing like her mother.

Celebrated R&B musician Allen Toussaint has died at the age of 77 after suffering a heart attack in Madrid, Spain. Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported…

Surveillance footage of Matthew Ajibade’s January arrest has been released, showing the moments before he was found dead while strapped to a restraint chair in Savannah, Georgia. Jurors watched the footage on Wednesday during day two of the trial against two former Chatham County Jail workers and a healthcare worker, according to WTOC. Former officers Jason Kenny, Maxine Evans, […]

Historic South Carolina flooding has now taken the lives of 11 people, wiped out homes, and left many more without power.

An Oakland-based artist was shot and killed this week while creating a mural advocating peace, Inside Bay Area reports. Antonio Ramos, 27, was painting the mural in West Oakland at the Interstate 580 corridor with several others when a man who wasn’t in the group began touching the equipment. After Ramos and the man got […]

Nearly a month after Bobbi Kristina Brown was laid to rest, her father, Bobby Brown, is accusing her longterm boyfriend Nick Gordon of being involved in her mysterious death, according to People magazine. Brown’s lawyer, Christopher Brown, released a statement to the publication earlier this week, accusing Gordon of “harming” Bobbi Kristina, 21, who was […]

The murder case involving a former social worker who allegedly threw her newborn daughter out of an apartment building in New York has investigators looking back on the death of another child the mother had in 2008. According to the New York Times, Jennifer Berry, 33, was arrested on second-degree murder charges on Tuesday. Police said Berry threw […]

A jury found Joseph Patterson guilty in the death of NFL running back Adrian Peterson‘s two-year-old son, ESPN reports. A South Dakota jury deliberated for over five hours before reaching their verdict, the site writes. Tyrese Robert Ruffin died in October 2013 in the home of Patterson and Peterson’s former girlfriend, Ashley Ann Doohen. Autopsy results showed the toddler sustained […]