Dick Gregory, pioneering comedian, author and civil rights activist, died Saturday at the age of 84. “It is with enormous sadness that the Gregory family confirms that their father, comedic ...

Dick Gregory, comedian and activist, died Saturday at the age of 84. This weekend’s death of Jerry Lewis crowded out much of the coverage that Gregory should have received — the media can only ...

Dick Gregory, the comedian and civil rights crusader, died Saturday. He was 84. His family announced the news on his public Facebook page. "It is with enormous sadness that the Gregory family ...

Comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory, who broke barriers in the 1960s and became one of the first African-Americans to perform at white clubs, died Saturday.

Comedian Dick Gregory, left, listens to Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown, right, at a news conference Thursday, Aug. 31, 2006, in Chicago where Brown announced she wanted to be the ...

Dick Gregory, comedian and political activist, dead at 84 01:43. Legendary comedian and civil rights icon Dick Gregory, who overcame a biased system all the while marching for civil rights, has ...

Gregory was one of a kind. But despite the film’s argument that its subject’s activism was part and parcel of his comedy, and not an afterthought, it’s the jokes that are given short shrift ...

A frequent TV show guest and a leading light in a starburst of African-American performers who redefined social commentary from the 1960s onward, Gregory had been as big as you could be in comedy.

“Greg opened the door,” comedian and future TV star Redd Foxx told the New York Times in 1961. “Somebody had to be first. There’s room for all of us.

Dick Gregory, the comedian and activist for social change in America, has died at 84, his family announced Saturday night. The cause of his death was heart failure, his rep confirmed.

Dick Gregory, who became the first black stand-up comic to break the color barrier in major nightclubs in the early 1960s, a decade in which he satirized segregation and race relations in his act a… ...