From Bessie Smith’s blues grit to Tina Turner’s fire, these two singers helped shape Janis Joplin’s unforgettable vocal style ...

Tobias Smith, Grammy-winning producer behind Kanye West's "Jail" and Swerve Strickland's AEW themes, died January 19 at age 43 years old.

Bill Matheny, age 88 of Forest City died Monday, January 26, 2026, at Fairhaven of Forest City. Bill was born on October 7, ...

Delorma “Dee” Goodwyn, a lifelong Annapolis resident, civic leader and driving force behind several of the city’s most meaningful memorials, has died. She was 75.

Willie T. Smith III died in Detroit jail three days after arrest for wine theft. Family seeks answers about what happened between hospital clearance and death.

With father's guilty plea, parents of a 2-year-old girl who died from hypothermia have both pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter. The toddler, Zemina Smith, wandered outside her family's ...

Dr. Janell Green Smith’s life was dedicated to finding solutions to the crisis of Black women dying in childbirth. That was until she herself died just days after giving birth to her daughter. One of ...