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Dominique Brown died last week following a medical emergency. She's shown above attending an April 2024 event at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, Calif.

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Remembering Dominique Brown, co-founder of Black Girl Disney

Disney influencer Dominique Brown, co-founder of Black Girl Disney, died last week after experiencing a medical emergency at an event in Los Angeles hosted by BoxLunch.

December 12, 2024
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  • Dhanika Pineda
Steve Mensch

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Tyler Perry Studios president dies in plane crash

According to multiple news reports, Mensch was flying a single-seater plane when it crashed on a road in Homosassa, Florida.

December 07, 2024
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  • Sammie Purcell
Chuck Woolery hosts a special premiere of the "$250,000 Game Show Spectacular" at the Las Vegas Hilton on Oct. 13, 2007, in Las Vegas.

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Chuck Woolery, game show host of 'Love Connection' and 'Scrabble,' dies at 83

The affable, smooth-talking game show host of "Wheel of Fortune," "Love Connection" and "Scrabble" later became a right-wing podcaster.

November 24, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Arthur Frommer, 83, and his daughter, Pauline Frommer, 46, are shown posing among tourists in the Wall Street area in New York, May 20, 2012.

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Arthur Frommer, who changed travel with his guidebooks, has died at 95

Arthur Frommer, who revolutionized travel with his 1957 guidebook Europe on 5 Dollars a Day, has died at 95, his daughter confirmed Monday.

November 19, 2024
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  • Ayana Archie
Former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson speaks, with DACA recipient Greisa Martinez Rosa, left, and former Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, right, after leaving the Supreme Court after oral arguments were heard in the case of President Trump's decision to end the Obama-era, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program on Nov. 12, 2019.

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Remembering Ted Olson, a titan of the law

Ted Olson, the Bush-era solicitor general, has died at age 84. He was a towering figure in the legal profession who argued 65 cases at the Supreme Court as solicitor general and as a private lawyer.

November 13, 2024
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  • Nina Totenberg
Roy Haynes, performing at the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2002.

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Roy Haynes, pioneering modern jazz drummer, has died at 99

Haynes influenced generations of drummers and helped change the direction of jazz improvisation.

November 13, 2024
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  • Ben Ratliff and
  • Eric Westervelt
Former head coach of the Los Angeles Rams John Robinson addresses the media in Los Angeles, Jan. 3, 1992.

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John Robinson, successful football coach at USC and with the LA Rams, has died at 89

John Robinson, the veteran football coach who enjoyed many years of success at the University of Southern California and with the Los Angeles Rams, has died. He was 89.

November 12, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
<a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/11/10/530876080/ella-jenkins-dead-at-100"target="_blank"   ><strong>Read Ella Jenkins' obituary</strong></a>

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Ella Jenkins, the first lady of children's music, has died at 100

Jenkins, whose signature tune was "You'll Sing A Song," received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and was known worldwide for her call-and-response songs.

November 11, 2024
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  • Andrew Limbong
Actor Tony Todd in 2011.

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'Candyman' star Tony Todd dies at 69

The versatile actor had hundreds of screen credits to his name, including Platoon, The Rock and Final Destination.

November 09, 2024
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  • Chloe Veltman
A screenshot of Elwood Edwards from an interview with AOL where he spoke about how he became the iconic voice behind the company's email alerts.

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Elwood Edwards, the voice of AOL's 'You've got mail' alert, dies at 74

Edwards recorded the iconic AOL lines at home with a cassette recorder for $200. Little did he know, he would become the voice that welcomed millions of people to the world of email.

November 08, 2024
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  • Juliana Kim
Home Depot co-founder and then-CEO Bernie Marcus poses for a portrait at a store in 1998.

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Bernie Marcus, Home Depot co-founder who pledged to give away his billions, has died

A man of second acts, Marcus started Home Depot after getting fired from another retailer. He then became a philanthropist, a Republican megadonor and an evangelist of capitalism.

November 06, 2024
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  • Alina Selyukh
<a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/11/04/834546599/quincy-jones-pop-mastermind-thriller-producer-dies"target="_blank"   ><strong>Read Quincy Jones' obituary</strong></a>

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Quincy Jones, pop mastermind and 'Thriller' producer, dies At 91

The production wizard behind Michael Jackson's Thriller won 28 Grammy awards during a career that spanned more than 70 years as a performer, songwriter, producer and music executive.

November 04, 2024
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  • Stephen Thompson
Teri Garr speaks at the 15th Annual Race to Erase MS event  on May 2, 2008 in Los Angeles, Calif.

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Teri Garr, actor, comedian and multiple sclerosis ambassador, dies at 79

Garr's breakout role was as sexy Inga in Young Frankenstein. She earned an Oscar nomination for her role in the 1982 film Tootsie, and played Phoebe's mom on the sitcom Friends.

October 30, 2024
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  • Tanya Ballard Brown
Ka performs during the 2014 Pitchfork Music Festival at Chicago's Union Park on July 19, 2014.

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The book of Ka

The Brooklyn MC, who died this month at 52, rapped from an intense commitment to writing as a form, and a DIY ethic that put him in charge of every aspect of his business.

October 28, 2024
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  • Sheldon Pearce
Phil Lesh of The Grateful Dead, seen here in 2005, died Friday at the age of 84.

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The Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh dies at 84

Lesh, an original member of America's preeminent jam band, died Friday morning.

October 25, 2024
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  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
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