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Famous Black Figures Who Died From COVID-19
With it being five years since the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic, we revisit the Black figures we lost to the disease.
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Black Celebrities Who Have Died from COVID-19
As the nation mourns one million deaths due to Covid, we remember the Black actresses, musicians and athletes we've lost to coronavirus.
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Legendary Jazz Pianist Ellis Marsalis Jr. Dead at 85
Ellis Marsalis Jr., legendary jazz musician, educator and patriarch of the Marsalis family, has died at the age of 85. After being admitted to the hospital over the weekend with symptoms of pneumonia, the New York Times reports that the cause of death was from complications associated with the coronavirus. On her Twitter account, New…