Information reaching our news desk has it that popular American television producer and filmmaker, Sacha Jenkins, has sadly passed away at the age of 54.
The news of his death was confirmed online in a series of posts on the X platform.
His cause of death was not disclosed to the public as at the time of filing this report.
An X user with the name Andrew Barber posted on his account, “RIP Sacha Jenkins, A huge influence on me and someone who accomplished so much in Hip-hop journalism, TV, and elsewhere”.
Born on August 22, 1971, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Jenkins family lived in Silver Spring, Maryland, until Sacha Jenkins was seven years old.
After his parents’ separation, Jenkins’ father, Horace Byrd Jenkins III, moved to Harlem. (Horace was a professor of communications at Howard University.) Jenkins, along with his mother, Monart, and his sister, Dominique, moved to Queens, New York, in 1977.
He is married to Raquel Cepeda, who is also an author and filmmaker.