LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Beyonce’s BeyGOOD has partnered with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s #startsmall to provide $6 million in funding to mental health and personal wellness services as the coronavirus pandemic continues to throttle the country.
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Tom Dempsey, who was born without toes on his right foot but because a lethal long-distance kicker in the NFL because of that, died Saturday from coronavirus complications. He was 73 and his death was announced by the New Orleans Saints, his former team.
Dempsey set the NFL record for longest field goal, hitting one from 63 yards out to help the New Orleans Saints beat the Detroit Lions in the final seconds. His record was finally broken by one yard in
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Beyonce’s BeyGOOD has partnered with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s #startsmall to provide $6 million in funding to mental health and personal wellness services as the coronavirus pandemic continues to throttle the country.
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Baldassare "Barney" Ales, the charismatic sales chief who helped turn Motown Records into a music industry powerhouse as Berry Gordy's right-hand man, died of natural causes Friday in Malibu, Calif. He was 85.Born in Detroit on May 13, 1934, Ales attended the city's Cooley High, where he met his future wife, Eileen "Mitzi" Cauley.
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When Willie Wilkerson Jr. first met Aretha Franklin -- whom she called her "forever friend" -- during the mid-80s, his daughters say he wasn't sure who she was.The two were living at Detroit's Riverfront Apartments and were each outside getting some air, Wilkerson with his leg in a cast.
When Willie Wilkerson Jr. first met Aretha Franklin -- whom she called her "forever friend" -- during the mid-80s, his daughters say he wasn't sure who she was.
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Former football player Tom Dempsey has sadly died from the COVID-19 Coronavirus at age 73.
New Orleans Saints legendary kicker Tom Dempsey died at 73 years old Saturday, the team announced Sunday morning. Dempsey, who was inducted into the Saints Hall of Fame in 1989, died from complications of COVID-19, which he contracted on March 25. He had also battled Alzheimer's disease and dementia since 2012.
Jason Hargrove, a bus driver in Detroit, has died from coronavirus, just two weeks after his Facebook video about a passenger coughing on his bus went viral.
Jazz veteran Ellis Marsalis Jr. died on Wednesday after losing his battle against coronavirus.
Ellis Marsalis, jazz pianist, teacher and patriarch of a New Orleans musical family that includes famed musician sons Wynton and Branford, has died. He was 85.
American pianist Ellis Marsalis has passed away at the age of 85 after contracting COVID-19. The father of renowned musicians, Wynton and Branford Marsalis was suffering from pneumonia, caused by Coronavirus, one of his sons told the Associated Press. “Pneumonia was the actual thing that caused his demise," Ellis Marsalis III said. "But it was pneumonia brought on by COVID-19," he added.