The UC-Berkeley professor wrote deeply researched books about the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow.
She celebrated the South in literary songs such as “Love at the Five and Dime” and was also known for her recording of “From a Distance,” later a popular Bette Midler tune.
He became the agency’s acting general counsel after 9/11, and helped develop a legal framework for its brutal detention and interrogation program.
He was also a contentious defender of traditional education and architect of neoconservative foreign policy.
After embarking on his broadcasting career at 17, he spent nearly four decades at NPR, where he became known to millions of listeners as host of the midday call-in show.
In addition to acting, she sought to preserve the film legacy of her parents, Alfred and Alma Hitchcock.
Mrs. Williams helped dismantle the barriers of race and gender in her profession, elevating other women and African Americans as she rose to the top ranks of D.C.’s legal community.
His company scored hits by Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen as he cultivated a bad-boy image of wanton excess.
The D.C. native played with Chuck Brown before working on albums by the Notorious B.I.G., Mary J. Blige and Faith Evans.
With the Chicago Black Hawks, he was regarded as one of the best goalies of the 1970s.
He and six school friends formed the group in 1964, calling themselves the Jazziacs.
She became a full-time cast member of the NBC show in Season 3 as Christine Sullivan, a strong-willed public defender.
Ally of Sakharov fought oppression in the Soviet Union and defended human rights after its collapse.
She later became a TV fixture as Josephine the Plumber in advertisements for Comet scouring powder.
During his 34 years in Tallahassee, “Saint Bobby” built a dynasty and won two national championships.
After a childhood in the public eye, he become a diver and underwater explorer.
Ms. Gobena, who died of covid-19, built an orphanage, schools, a hospital and training centers credited with serving thousands amid drought, famine and war.
He influenced Daft Punk and had an international hit with his 1999 song ‘Get Get Down.’
The 6-foot-8 Astros pitcher twice led the major leagues in strikeouts before a career-ending stroke at age 30.
She taught at Montgomery College, mentored children and helped found artists’ groups.
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Cicely Tyson, the pioneering actor who brought some of the first ennobling portrayals of African Americans to a vast television audience, gained an Oscar nomination for her performance as a sharecropper's wife in ''Sounder.''
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Photos: Pierre Cardin, designer who transformed fashion in the 1960s, dies at 98
A perennial trendsetter, Mr. Cardin, who died Dec. 29 at age 98, radically transformed men's and women's fashion in the 1960s with modern designs such as the Nehru jacket and the space-race-inspired bubble dress. He redefined the field of commercial branding by licensing his name to products including toiletries, jewelry, luggage, candy, wine and wigs.
