Our 2024 Year-End Review was completed prior to the death of former President Jimmy Carter, who died at the age of 100 on Dec. 29, 2024.
- Derrick Ward Sr. (Dec. 10, 1962 – Jan. 7), 62: longtime NBC4 reporter
- Nancy Leftenant-Colon (Sept. 29, 1920 – Jan.8), 104: the first woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s
- Dr. Renee Allen (Oct. 18, 1961 – Jan. 25), 63: host, advocate, U.S. Navy veteran, known as “The People’s Emcee”
- Irv Gotti (June 26, 1970 – Feb. 5), 54: founder of Murder Inc. Records
- Alvin Poussaint (May 15, 1934 – Feb. 24), 90: psychiatrist and Black mental health advocate
- Jerry Butler (Dec. 8, 1939 – Feb. 20), 85: three-time Grammy nominee and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer
- Gwen McCrae (Dec. 21, 1943 – Feb. 23), 81: soul-funk singer
- Roberta Flack (Feb. 10, 1937 – Feb. 24), 88: Grammy-winning singer and pianist
- Angie Stone (Dec. 18, 1961 – March 1), 63: Grammy-nominated singer
- Dr. Hazel N. Dukes (March 17, 1932 – March 1), 92: civil rights activist and NAACP board member
- Roy Ayers (Sept. 10, 1940 – March 4), 84: jazz-funk pioneer, the godfather of Neo-Soul
- Mia Love (Dec. 6, 1975 – March 23), 49: first Black Republican woman elected to Congress
- Pope Francis (Dec. 17, 1936 – April 21), 88: the first Jesuit and first Latin American pope
- Alexis Herman (July 16, 1947 – April 25), 77: first Black United States secretary of labor
- Willie E. Clark (Sept. 22, 1930 – May 15), 94: computer scientist known as “The Grandfather of Computers”
- U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D) (March 30, 1950 – May 21), 75: longtime Virginia congressman
- U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel (June 11, 1930 – May 26), 94: longtime New York congressman
- Sly Stone (March 15, 1943 – June 9), 82: Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award-winning singer
- Ananda Lewis (March 21, 1973 – June 11), 52: television host
- Malcolm-Jamal Warner (Aug. 18, 1970 – July 20), 54: actor, musician, poet, director, producer
- Rep. William Lacy Clay Sr. (April 30, 1931 – July 16), 94: co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus
- Rohulamin Quander (Dec. 4, 1943 – Aug. 16), 81: retired judge and Quander family historian
- Assata Shakur (July 16, 1947 – Sept. 25), 78: political activist and revolutionary
- D’Angelo (Feb. 11, 1974 – Oct. 14), 51: Grammy-winning singer
- Tracie Rose (May 30, 1960 – Nov. 5 ), 65: performing artist, entrepreneur
- Viola Fletcher (May 10, 1914 – Nov. 24), 111: American author, who was the oldest known survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
- The Rt. Rev. Reginald T. Jackson (April 26, 1954– Nov. 25), 71: formerly presiding prelate of the Second Episcopal District
- James Wright (Nov. 9, 1963 – Dec. 2), 62: longtime Washington Informer staff writer
- Imam Jamil Abdullah al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown) (Oct. 4, 1943 – Nov. 23), 82: activist, faith leader, author
- Rob Reiner (March 6, 1947 – Dec. 14), 78: actor, director, producer
- Michelle Singer Reiner (March 3, 1955 – Dec. 14), 67: actor, photographer and producer
- Carl Carlton (May 21, 1952 – Dec. 14), 73: singer
- Betty Reid Soskin (Sept. 22, 1921 – Dec. 21), 104: oldest ranger in the history of the National Park Service