Before the sit-ins and freedom rides, before nearly dying at the hand of an Alabama state trooper at the Edmund Pettus Bridge and before ascending to …
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2020: Year in Goodbyes
Remembering those we've lost as we reach the end of a uniquely arduous year — the civil rights leaders, the lives cut short by injustice, the stars who brought us inspiration and comfort, and more.
How a scholar, advocate, and judge upended the entirety of American political thought. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, scholar, lawyer, judge, and Justice, died on Friday at the age of eighty-seven. Born the year Eleanor Roosevelt became First Lady, Ginsburg bore witness to, argued for, and helped to …
(CNN) — George Floyd moved to Minnesota for a fresh start — an opportunity to better himself and to be a better father. And while so many now know the Houston native by his full name, those who knew him best called him Floyd. He worked security at a restaurant where he developed a reputation as …
Before she was a hashtag or a headline, before protesters around the country chanted her name, Breonna Taylor was a 26-year-old woman who played cards with her aunts and fell asleep watching movies with friends. That changed on March 13, when police officers executing a no-knock warrant in the …
CNN — Many people have a little brother or sister who messes with their stuff, asks too many questions and makes a nuisance of themselves. For many years, Kobe Bryant was Michael Jordan’s, the Chicago Bulls legend told a packed Staples Center on Monday. Jordan, considered by many to be basketball’s …
More than a year after disclosing his stage-four pancreatic cancer diagnosis in the calmest way possible, longtime Jeopardy! host and arbiter of …
This should’ve been Chadwick Boseman’s decade. IMDB lists his first acting credit on the NBC drama Third Watch in 2003; by 2018 he had officially …
Lucille Bridges, who in 1960 braved a gauntlet of threats and racist slurs to escort her daughter to a formerly all-white school in New Orleans in what became a symbol of opposition to segregation, has died at age 86. Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, who walked up the stairs of William Frantz …
Scottish actor Sean Connery on the set of Goldfinger, directed by Guy Hamilton. Photo by Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images
He was the most bitter of rivals in soccer-mad Brazil, dazzling on the field and maddening off it. “Go back to the museum,” he once told Pelé. He was the outspoken supporter of the Latin American left, befriending Venezuela’s socialist president Hugo Chávez and tattooing an image of Argentine-born …
IN MEMORIAM
Nearly 200,000 people have died so far due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Here are the stories remembering the lives of those we have lost this year.
In a year that will be remembered for loss, we look back at some of the most famous people who died in 2020.Among the lives we lost this year: trailblazers Ruth Bader Ginsburg and John Lewis; acclaimed actors Chadwick Boseman, Kirk Douglas and Sean Connery; musical geniuses Little Richard and Eddie …
Dawn Wells The Gilligan's Island star, who played Mary Ann Summers on the hit show from 1964–67, died on Dec. 29 in Los Angeles, according to The Hollywood Reporter. She was 82. Wells' publicist said that the actress died of causes related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Tina Louise, who played …
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