He’s a comedian, TV presenter and actor who is seen as the Birmingham comic, a man who is synonymous with the country’s ...

At HBO in the late 1970s, he established the template for presenting stand-up on the small screen. He then became a mainstay ...

A psychiatrist at Harvard and an adviser to Jesse Jackson and Bill Cosby, he challenged Black Americans to stand up to systemic bigotry. By Clay Risen Alvin F. Poussaint, a psychiatrist who, after ...

Ron Nessen, the veteran broadcast journalist who served as press secretary for President Gerald Ford, has died at 90.

died Monday in his home in the Brookline part of Chestnut Hill of medical complications following a short illness. He was 90 and had retired in 2019. In books and scores of articles he wrote or ...

He then entered Cornell Medical School and was reportedly the only Black student admitted that year and earned his M.D. in 1960. This experience shaped Poussaint’s worldview and was a ...

He was 90. Nessen died Wednesday in Bethesda ... about the propriety and wisdom of a press secretary participating in a comedy show that skewered his boss, not Nessen’s ability to deliver ...

Sway released a handful of independent albums throughout the 1990s including, most notably, Concrete Jungle with King Tech, ...

Poussaint, a psychiatrist and author who helped expand perceptions of the Black experience ... Cosby Show,” died Feb. 24 at his home in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. He was 90.