Obituary
The life of jazz great Will Connell to be celebrated in New York City
December 9, 2014The four-day program is called the "Will Connell Memorial Week: Celebrating the Life and Music of the Heart and Soul of Downtown."
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Louise Koszalka dies at 100
November 12, 2014Louise (Jones) Ferragut Koszalka, May 12, 1914, to Oct. 31, 2014, passed away peacefully at home with her family.
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Actress Lauren Bacall, who protested Hollywood blacklist, dies at 89
August 14, 2014"Stardom isn't a career," Bacall once observed, "it's an accident." What a lucky accident it turned out to be.
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Norman Hodgett, 82: Fighter for peace, economic justice, and equality
August 13, 2014Activists are mourning the loss of Norman Hodgett, who died in New York August 9. He leaves behind his beloved Kathy Rutkowsky and countless friends and comrades.
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Nadine Gordimer, Nobel laureate, activist, dies
July 16, 2014Gordimer won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1991 for novels that explored the complex relationships and human cost of racial conflict in apartheid-era South Africa.
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