Billy Graham has died at the age of 99. Russell Moore, head of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, remembers the legendary evangelist.
Whitfield, who died Feb. 9, started in the San Francisco Opera in the 1970s before moving on to piano bars. She later performed regularly at New York's Algonquin Hotel. Originally broadcast in 1988.
Thousands gathered at a local park, some chanting "no more guns," amid tearful remembrances of the 17 students and staff killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
As the nation looks for ways to honor the victims of this week's school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., we offer a remembrance of those who died.
Through their grief, families and friends of the victims at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School told the stories of those who were killed on Wednesday.
Two of those killed were beloved staff members. Chris Hixon and Aaron Feis were both coaches at the school, and they were remembered fondly by colleagues and students.
Zimbabwe's main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai has died at 65. He had been suffering from colon cancer. As the arch political rival of then-president Robert Mugabe, Tsvangirai came to symbolize courageous resistance to Mugabe's repressive regime.
The miner turned politician, who tried repeatedly to unseat longtime ruler Robert Mugabe, came to symbolize courageous resistance to Mugabe's repressive regime — and changed politics in Zimbabwe.
Tom Rapp, the founder of the 1960s folk outfit Pearls Before Swine, has died. He went on to become a civil rights attorney and his music enjoyed a revival in the 1990s.
Rapp's band, Pearls Before Swine, sold an impressive number of records and contained strains of experimentalism that reverberated for decades after. He thought it was all fine.