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What happened to Michael K. Williams? Sister pays tribute four years after actor’s death
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Posted Wednesday 2/02/22 at 6:22PM EST
Four arrested in connection with Michael K. Williams' overdose death
Federal prosecutors charged Irvin Cartagena with a narcotics conspiracy for allegedly distributing the fentanyl-laced heroin that killed Williams.
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Posted Tuesday 1/11/22 at 3:53AM EST
Can Vice TV's Black Market return for a Season 3 without Michael K. Williams?
Executive producer Matt Goldman said that because "there's no other show" that explores this side of illicit trade or crime...
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Posted Thursday 1/06/22 at 2:24PM EST
Tracy Morgan, Rosie Perez and Felicia Pearson to narrate the final three episodes of Michael K. Williams' Black Market
They'll fill in for Williams, who died in September, on Season 2 of his Vice TV docuseries.
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Posted Monday 11/29/21 at 4:11PM EST
Vice TV releases an emotional trailer for Michael K. Williams' Black Market Season 2
The late actor had completed much of the work on Season 2 before he died on Labor Day Weekend.
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Posted Thursday 11/18/21 at 2:50AM EST
Michael K. Williams' New York Times obituary racked up 2.8 million views, while Norm Macdonald and Willie Garson each had around 1 million views for their obits
The New York Times obituaries editor William McDonald revealed that data to The Washington Post in an article about the...
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Posted Friday 10/08/21 at 2:17PM EDT
Baltimore Ravens plan to make its use Omar's The Wire whistle a regular tribute to Michael K. Williams
The NFL team actually reached out to Williams five years ago for a “Ravens comin'" collaboration inspired by the oft-quoted...
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Posted Saturday 9/25/21 at 1:39AM EDT
Michael K. Williams died of an accidental drug overdose, medical examiner rules
The Wire alum, who had been open with his struggles with drug addiction, succumbed on Labor Day to acute intoxication...
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Posted Monday 9/20/21 at 6:18PM EDT
The Crown's Tobias Menzies dedicates his Emmy to Michael K. Williams
Menzies, who beat out Williams for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, didn't attend Sunday's Primetime Emmys ceremony.
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The Emmys failed to reflect a TV landscape that is exciting, daring and more abundant than ever
"The Emmys celebrated a TV landscape proliferated with more good programming than ever before, but then voters proceeded to give...
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Posted Monday 9/20/21 at 10:26AM EDT
Why Michael K. Williams' Emmy loss hurt so much
"While there were many victories to celebrate at the Emmys, one loss seemed to cast a cloud over the gala...
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Posted Saturday 9/18/21 at 3:04AM EDT
Michael K. Williams' nephew will accept his Emmy if he wins for Lovecraft Country
The late actor's nephew and mentee, Dominic Dupont, appeared in the Williams-produced 2017 Vice documentary Raised by the System.
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Posted Wednesday 9/15/21 at 6:21PM EDT
Jurnee Smollett posts an emotional tribute to Lovecraft Country co-star Michael K. Williams: "My brother, my heart hurts so"
"A part of my brain refuses to accept it…sh*tty part about grief-it goes in stages," Smollett wrote in a lengthy tribute on...
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Posted Monday 9/13/21 at 11:16AM EDT
David Simon remembers Michael K. Williams: We had trouble casting Omar on The Wire until we remembered the actor with the "amazing scar"
The Wire creator tweeted that his New York Times tribute to Williams, who died a week ago at age 54,...
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Posted Saturday 9/11/21 at 2:39AM EDT
Michael K. Williams was a performer openly daunted by the task at hand: a shock absorber
"No knock on David Simon and Ed Burns, but it was Williams who invented Omar.