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This list of notable Black people who have died by suicide demonstrates how mental illness, stress, feelings of hopelessness or any of the myriad other reasons why people take their own lives affects people from all walks of life.

  The family of late hip-hop mogul Chris Lighty has asked for a second autopsy after a medical examiner ruled Chris Lighty death in New York last week a suicide. Posted by BlackAmericaWeb.com http://www.blackamericaweb.com/entertainment/music/kin-ny-hip-hop-mogul-lighty-seeks-2nd-autopsy

Two black men died untimely deaths in the last two weeks. One, Michael Clarke Duncan, was a major movie star known to millions as John Coffey in “The Green Mile,” the other, music manager Darrell “Baby Chris” Lighty, was well known to the music industry but not as much of a public figure. The two […]

A gray cloud hovers over the Hip Hop world as veterans, musicians and anyone who has been influenced in any way by Chris Lighty, mourn…