Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, prolific author, and outspoken activist Elie Wiesel died Saturday at 87. Wiesel was perhaps best known for his major role in promoting Holocaust education and for perpetuating the memory of the Holocaust in the…
The 92-Year-Old Michigan Democrat Michigan Democrat John Dingell Jr. was the longest-serving member of the United States Congress in history. He helped write most of the nation’s major environmental and energy laws. Dingel died Thursday, February 7, 2019, his wife…
Renowned congresswoman and trailblazing advocate Sheila Jackson Lee died on July 19, 2024, at 74. Her death marked the end of a remarkable political career that spanned decades and left an indelible mark on the history of the United States.…
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born Michael King Jr. on January 15, 1929. He led an American civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He was the son of early civil rights activist and minister Martin Luther King Sr.…
JOHANNESBURG (A.P.) — Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning icon, an uncompromising foe of the country’s past racist policy of apartheid, and a modern-day activist for racial justice and LGBT rights, died Sunday at 90. South Africans, world leaders,…
Bob Dole was born Robert Joseph Dole on July 22, 1923. He was an American politician and attorney who represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996. Before his 27 years in the Senate, Bob Dole served…
Colin Powell was born in New York, a city, on April 5, 1937, and he died on – October 18, 2021. He was an American politician, diplomat, statesman, and four-star general who served as the 65th United States Secretary of State…
Former Vice President Walter Mondale, a liberal icon who lost the most Former Vice President Walter F. Mondale, a liberal icon who lost the most lopsided presidential election after bluntly telling voters to expect a tax increase if he won,…
Linda Tripp, whose secretly recorded conversations with White House intern Monica Lewinsky led to the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton, died Wednesday, April 8th at age 70. Attorney Joseph Murtha confirmed her death. He provided no further details. “As a family,…
(CNN)John Prine, the raspy-voiced singer-songwriter whose homespun, witty, and insightful country-folk tunes influenced legions of musicians in a career that spanned five decades, died Tuesday at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. He was 73. His publicist tells CNN, “Yes,…
Katherine Johnson (Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson), born on August 26, 1918, and died on February 24, 2020. She was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and the subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights.…
