The author of Persepolis is dead. I haven't read the graphic novel, but I found the film version quite powerful.
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More later, but the greatest living jazz musician is now gone.
Barney Frank was mostly a groundbreaking and pioneering congressman who happened to be gay and centered that in his public life. Dodd-Frank is one of the most important pieces of.
If you watched basketball in the 80s, no coach was like Doug Moe. In an era of big personalities as coaches--Pat Riley, Jack Ramsay, Chuck Daly--Moe was one of a kind. His super fast paced offense led by Alex English, Dan Issel, and Kiki Vandeweghe...
Well this is horrible. Catherine O’Hara, the comedian best known for her roles in “Home Alone,” “Schitt’s Creek” and “Beetlejuice,” and as a member of the influential Canadian sketch comedy.
The way we teach the civil rights movement--or any movement--has gotten massively oversimplified, with a focus on just a few people. This may be inevitable, but we lose something by.
The second season of The Wire is incredibly underrated. People who loved the first season were perplexed--why was this season about white people? Even worse, unions? Where's the gangstas???? This massively missed the point David Simon was making in The Wire. Meanwhile, in public discussions...
Peter Arnett sure seemed to matter in journalism in the 90s. Had basically forgotten that name, but thinking back to the first Gulf War and watching it on CNN and.
Word from his family is that the great Joe Ely has died. He had Lewy's body dementia and Parkinson's, so it wasn't totally surprising, but it's still an enormous loss.
The historiography of the Black Panthers at first was very critical of them. This was largely written by middle class people who valorized the mainline civil rights movement and thought the Panthers ruined it all. That was too simplistic. That was followed by a generation...
There's a whole bunch of folks who have died in the last few days who deserve a mention, but none of them quite would be likely to get a whole.
Unquestionably one of the biggest figures of late 20th century American acting and she's what made most of those Woody Allen films work. Not to mention being a fashion icon.