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Joseph McNeil, RIP

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On September 6, 2025
We lost another of the great figures of the civil rights movement: Joseph McNeil, who jolted the civil rights movement with a surge of youth activism when he and three other freshmen from a historically Black college held a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter...

Flaco Jimenez, RIP

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On August 1, 2025

We have lost one of the greatest titans of American music: The master of the Tex-Mex accordion Leonardo "Flaco" Jimenez, whose tradition-drenched sound came to define conjunto or Tejano music of South Texas, has.

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Malcolm-Jamal Warner RIP

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On July 21, 2025
Gen X weeps: Malcolm-Jamal Warner, the actor who rose to fame as a teenager playing Theo Huxtable on “The Cosby Show” in the mid-1980s, died in Costa Rica on Sunday. He was 54. Warner drowned while swimming at a beach on the Caribbean coast of...
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Pat Williams, RIP

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On June 30, 2025
Even though it wasn't that long ago, we've almost forgotten how pretty progressive policymakers could come from the Rocky Mountain states. As Colorado, New Mexico ,and to a lesser extent Arizona and Nevada have moved to the left, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana have sprinted...

Requiem

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On May 26, 2025

A lot of pretty famous and pretty good people died this week. It's Memorial Day so let's remember them. First, Chuck Rangel. He was actually #8 on my obituary to-write.

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Ledeen

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On May 22, 2025
I had completely forgotten Michael Ledeen existed, but he's dead and we should not mourn. That guy never found a situation where some killing wasn't the answer, whether it was Sandinistas or Muslims. “He insisted that the right, not the left, should be the true...

José Mujica, RIP

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On May 13, 2025

Mujica was a real one, perhaps the most successful of the Latin American revolutionaries of the 60s to transition into mainstream government. Former Uruguayan President José Mujica , a onetime Marxist guerilla.

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