Ray Jenkins, the city editor of The Alabama Journal, was eating a bologna sandwich at his desk on April 5, 1960, and thumbing through a week-old copy of The New York Times when a full-page ad caught his eye.
Kay Hagan, a former Democratic senator from North Carolina who served one term in the capital after defeating Elizabeth Dole, a Republican, in 2008, died Monday at her home in Greensboro, North Carolina. She was 66.
Paul F. Markham, who dived into dark waters to try to find a young woman who was in a car with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy when Kennedy famously drove off a bridge in Chappaquiddick, Massachusetts, in 1969, died on July 13 in Peabody, Massachusetts He was 89.
Lois Wille, a Chicago reporter, editorial writer and author who examined, scolded and challenged the city she loved with hard-hitting investigations and won two Pulitzer Prizes, died Tuesday at her home in downtown Chicago. She was 87.
Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, the former archbishop of Havana, who helped re-establish relations between Cuba and the United States and revive Catholicism on the island, died Friday in Havana. He was 82.
NEW YORK — Hugh Southern held some high-profile jobs. He was acting chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts during the culture wars of the 1980s and, briefly, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera.
Gloria Schiff, a fashion editor at Vogue, a philanthropist and one half of a pair of glamorous twins in midcentury New York society, died on May 2 at her home in Manhattan. She was 90.
Jean Vanier, who dedicated his life to improving conditions for people on the margins and founded two worldwide organizations for those with developmental disabilities, died Tuesday in Paris. He was 90.
Kitty Tucker, a public interest lawyer and anti-nuclear activist who helped raise national awareness of nuclear power whistleblower Karen Silkwood’s death, died March 30 in Silver Spring, Maryland. She was 75.
Kelsey Davis was on the verge of dropping out of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University two years ago. Her grades were poor and she felt insecure, doubtful that she belonged at such a prestigious institution. In sorting out her situation, she met with the school’s dean, Lorraine Branham, a longtime journalist and, like her, a black woman.
Dan Robbins was no Leonardo da Vinci. But he copied one of the master’s basic techniques and thereby enabled children to grow up believing that they, too, could paint “The Last Supper.”
William C. Powers Jr., a long-serving president of the University of Texas who earlier produced a scathing report in 2002 on the wrongdoing that led to the collapse of the Enron Corp., died Sunday in Austin, Texas. He was 72.
William C. Powers Jr., who was a long-serving president of the University of Texas and who produced a scathing report in 2002 on the wrongdoing that led to the collapse of the Enron Corp., died Sunday in Austin, Texas. He was 72.
George Stade, a highbrow literary scholar who studied lowbrow fiction and who wrote the provocative 1979 satirical crime novel “Confessions of a Lady-Killer,” died on Feb. 26 in Silver Spring, Maryland. He was 85.
Bill Jenkins, a government epidemiologist who tried to expose the unethical Tuskegee syphilis study in the 1960s and devoted the rest of his career to fighting racism in health care, died Feb. 17 in Charleston, South Carolina. He was 73.
Bill Jenkins, a government epidemiologist who tried to expose the unethical Tuskegee syphilis study in the 1960s and devoted the rest of his career to fighting racism in health care, died Feb. 17 in Charleston, South Carolina. He was 73.
MEDFORD, Mass. — During Black History Month, Massachusetts likes to point out its reputation as the enlightened 19th-century hub of the abolition movement. The state was one of the first to end slavery, long before the 13th Amendment formally banned it nationwide in 1865.
Betty Ballantine, who with her husband helped transform reading habits in the pre-internet age by introducing inexpensive paperback books to Americans, died Tuesday in Bearsville, New York. She was 99.
The manuscript had been rejected by more than a dozen publishing houses. Finally, an elderly man who was screening new books for what was then Farrar, Straus & Cudahy read it and liked it.
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