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Robert Parris Moses, civil rights legend who founded the Algebra Project, dies at 86
Mr. Moses was the Mississippi field director of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s during the civil rights movement.
Jackie Mason, comic who perfected amused outrage, has died
Mason, a rabbi-turned-comedian whose feisty brand of standup comedy led him to Catskills nightclubs, West Coast talk shows, and Broadway stages, has died.
Alice Clark Brown, Black star in a white circus, dies at 68
As a young girl in Chicago in the late 1950s, Alice Clark Brown was entranced by a television show called “Circus Boy,” especially the opening montage, in which a character named Corky rides a baby elephant. Years later, she became an elephant rider herself, with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and is thought to be the first Black showgirl in one of the two touring companies of Ringling Brothers.
Purnell Choppin, a researcher who laid groundwork for pandemic fight, dies at 91
A researcher who studied how viruses multiply, Purnell Chopin was among the first to show how they invade cells and turn them into factories to produce more viruses, work that was seminal in vaccine development.
Kathy Andrade, unionist who fought for immigrant workers, dies at 88
Kathy Andrade, a longtime garment union activist in New York City and a native of El Salvador who pushed the labor movement to embrace immigrants rather than view them as threatening the livelihoods of American-born workers, died July 2 in Manhattan. She was 88.
‘Faith is the belief that truth matters,’ child psychiatrist Dr. Donald S. Gair, 96, taught his students
Dr. Gair formerly was superintendent of the Gaebler Children's Center and chaired the child psychiatry department at the Boston University School of Medicine.
Dr. Paul Auerbach, father of wilderness medicine, dies at 70
“Paul literally conceived of this subspecialty of medicine,” said Dr. Andra Blomkalns, chair of emergency medicine at Stanford.
Gloria Richardson, civil rights activist in Maryland showdown, dies at 99
A self-described "revolutionary," Gloria Richardson drew national attention in the early 1960s in a showdown on Maryland’s Eastern Shore that presaged the Black Power movement and led to a year-long imposition of martial law.