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Fashion journalist and ex-'Vogue' creative director André Leon Talley dies at 73

5:59am January 19, 2022

Talley, who worked at Women's Wear Daily and Vogue, was a regular in the front row of fashion shows in New York and Europe. At 6-feet-6 inches tall, he cut an imposing figure wherever he went.

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In 2007, Vogue magazine editor at large André Leon Talley attends a post-Fashion Week panel discussion on the lack of Black images in the current fashion output in New York. Talley, the towering former creative director and editor at large of Vogue magaz

Influential fashion journalist André Leon Talley dies at 73

1:17am January 19, 2022

by The Associated Press

André Leon Talley, the towering former creative director and editor at large of Vogue magazine, has died. He was a regular in the front row of fashion shows in New York and Europe.

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Charles McGee, celebrated Tuskegee Airman, dies at 102

5:38pm January 17, 2022

Retired Brigadier General Charles Edward McGee, a member of the all-Black Tuskegee Airmen who flew during World War II, has died. He was 102.

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Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee and his great grandson Iain Lanphier are seen during President Donald Trump's State of the Union address on Feb. 4, 2020. McGee, one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, who flew 409 fighter combat missions over three wars,

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Celebrated Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee dies at 102

10:40pm January 16, 2022

by The Associated Press

Charles McGee, a Tuskegee Airman who flew 409 fighter combat missions over three wars, has died.

Ralph Emery, second from the right, appears in Nashville on Aug. 7, 2007 with, from left, Vince Gill, Country Music Association Chief Operating Officer Tammy Genovese and Mel Tillis, after it was announced that the three men will be inducted into the Coun

Music & Culture

The famed country music broadcaster Ralph Emery has died at age 88

10:13am January 16, 2022

by The Associated Press

Emery became known as the dean of country music broadcasters over more than a half-century in both radio and television. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2007.

Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Rabbi Israel Dresner's synagogue, Temple Sha'arey Shalom, in Springfield, N.J., on Jan. 18, 1963. Dresner became close to King when he was an activist for civil rights in the 1960s.

Israel Dresner, rabbi who marched with Martin Luther King, dies at 92

8:29am January 16, 2022

by Tovia Smith

Rabbi Israel "Sy" Dresner was one of the early Freedom Riders in the 1960s civil rights movement and was close with King. He said Jewish teachings and Jewish history compelled his activism.

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Remembering Rabbi Israel Dresner, a Freedom Rider in the civil rights movement

4:55pm January 15, 2022

by Tovia Smith

One of the original Freedom Riders has died. Rabbi Israel Dresner was arrested and jailed multiple times for his activism. He was among those who answered Martin Luther King Jr.'s call.

Remembering devoted father Arthur Schwartz, who died of COVID

5:12pm January 14, 2022

Arthur Schwartz of Ann Arbor, Mich., was a longtime employee of General Motors, a baseball fanatic and a loving father. He died in 2020 from COVID-19.

Critic Terry Teachout in 2014 in New York.

Cultural critic Terry Teachout is remembered as 'unafraid of being human in public'

1:27pm January 14, 2022

by Neda Ulaby

Teachout has died at the age of 65. He wrote acclaimed biographies of such arts figures as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and George Balanchine.

How Ronnie Spector and 'Be My Baby' became a pop-culture sound of sex in 1987

11:40am January 13, 2022

by Linda Holmes

Twice in the same year, the song "Be My Baby" — featuring the voice of Ronnie Spector, who died this week — became the sound that signaled something memorably, indelibly sexy.