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United States. Branch/service. United States Air Force. Samuel A. Massell Jr. (August 26, 1927 – March 13, 2022) was an American businessman and politician who served from 1970 to 1974 as the 53rd mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. He was the first Jewish mayor in the city's history and the most recent non-black mayor of Atlanta.
Ronald M. Brill is a former American retail executive and is a co-founder of the Home Depot. He worked with Arthur Blank and Bernard Marcus at Handy Dan Home Improvement and was fired from that company at the same time they were. Brill was Home Depot's first official employee. He worked with Home Depot for over 20 years, serving as the company ...
Ronald Harmon Brown (August 1, 1941 – April 3, 1996) was an American politician. He served as the United States Secretary of Commerce during the first term of President Bill Clinton. Before this, he was chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). He was the first African American to hold these positions.
Ronald Vernie Dellums (November 24, 1935 – July 30, 2018) was an American politician who served as Mayor of Oakland from 2007 to 2011. He had previously served thirteen terms as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 9th congressional district, in office from 1971 to 1998, after which he worked as a lobbyist in Washington, D.C.
June 14, 2024 at 4:44 PM. Detroit native and four-time Tony Award-winning producer Ron Simons died on Thursday at age 63. Simons’ death was announced in a Facebook post by his production company ...
June 14, 2024 at 5:16 PM. Ron Simons, whose career included Tony-winning productions of "Porgy and Bess" and "Jitney," died Wednesday at age 63. (Victoria Will / Associated Press) Ron Simons, the ...
This Is Us alum Ron Cephas Jones has died. He was 66. His representative confirmed the news of his passing to Us Weekly on Saturday, August 19, adding that heart-related issues caused his death.
Deaths. Rayshard Brooks. On the night of June 12, 2020, Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old African American man, was confronted by officers of the APD and was shot by Atlanta Police Department (APD) officer Garrett Rolfe. APD officer Devin Brosnan was responding to a complaint that Brooks was asleep in a car in a Wendy's restaurant drive-through lane.