Gordon Lightfoot, Canada’s legendary folk singer-songwriter whose hits include “Early Morning Rain” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” has died at age 84.

Wright was the visionary who started the nonprofit organization in 1982. Its mission is to support Black journalists in Hampton Roads and inspire Black students to pursue college and media-related careers.

Actor, singer, and activist Harry Belafonte, who will go down in history as the first Black Emmy winner, has passed away at the age of 96.

The real estate legend helped close deals on major development projects in Norfolk, Newport News and other Hampton Roads cities.

Walter C. Cole, better known as the iconic drag queen who performed for decades as Darcelle XV, has died of natural causes in Portland, Oregon. Cole was 92.

Actor Lance Reddick was found dead at his home in Studio City, Calif. on Friday morning at the age of 60.

John "Kimball" Payne, a former Baltimore Sun reporter who later became a Virginia investment banker, died Feb. 25 from sarcoma at his Virginia Beach home. He was 44.

Michael Shipp, owner and founder of East Coast Bicycles on Colley Avenue, was killed Thursday after being struck by a pickup truck on a state highway in South Carolina. He'd just turned 53 two days before, on Valentine's Day.