Grand National-winning jockey Eddie Harty, the only Olympic competitor to win the world's most famous steeplechase, has died at age 88. Harty, whose wife Patricia died only last week, was a member of ...

Influential theater producer and director Woodie King Jr. died at age 88 in New York City. King founded the New Federal Theatre in 1970, which became a launchpad for Black artists and landmark plays.

Architect Robert L. Wesley died on January 24 at the age of 88. News of Wesley’s passing was confirmed by SOM, where Wesley spent the near entirety of his career. Wesley started working for the ...

NEW YORK — Woodie King Jr., an actor, director and producer who founded the New Federal Theatre to give voice and employment to Black playwrights, actors, directors, designers and young people ...

Black theater trailblazer Woodie King, Jr., who helped launch the careers of Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Debbie Allen and Chadwick Boseman as the founder of New York City’s New Federal Theatre, ...