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Virgil Abloh, fashion designer, dies at 41 after a private battle with cancer

7:22am November 29, 2021

Designer Virgil Abloh died Sunday at age 41 after fighting a rare form of cancer. The founder of the label Off-White and the artistic director for Louis Vuitton menswear was known as a visionary.

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Survivor of clergy sex abuse, Phil Saviano, dies at 69

6:47am November 29, 2021

A man who helped to expose the Catholic Church's cover-up of clergy sex abuse has died. Phil Saviano was a childhood survivor of abuse and decades later went public with his story.

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Rep. Carrie Meek, D-Fla., pictured here speaking during services at Mt. Tabor Missionary Baptist Church in Miami, in 2002.

Politics & Government

Carrie Meek, pioneering Black former congresswoman, has died

6:31pm November 28, 2021

by The Associated Press

Meek, the grandchild of a slave and a sharecropper's daughter who became one of the first Black Floridians elected to Congress since Reconstruction, died Sunday. She was 95.

Virgil Abloh was the artistic director for Louis Vuitton menswear and the founder of the label Off-White. He died on Sunday after a private battle with cancer. He was 41.

Renowned fashion designer Virgil Abloh dies at 41 after a private battle with cancer

5:32pm November 28, 2021

by Wynne Davis

Abloh was the artistic director for Louis Vuitton menswear, but the 41-year-old designer had already made a name for himself prior to joining the luxury label.

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Virgil Abloh dies at age 41

4:50pm November 28, 2021

by Karen Grigsby Bates

Famed menswear designer Virgil Abloh died today. He was 41.

Arts

Theater actor Patti LuPone remembers Stephen Sondheim

4:50pm November 28, 2021

NPR's David Folkenflik remembers Broadway composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim with actress and singer Patti LuPone.

Remembering the influential lyricism of Stephen Sondheim's musicals

6:06pm November 27, 2021

by Bob Mondello

Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, arguably the greatest artist in the American Musical Theater, has died. He was born March 22, 1930.

Joanne Shenandoah in 2020 at Hart's Falls Preserve, near the Hiawatha Institute for Indigenous Studies, an organization run by Shenandoah and her husband, Doug George-Kanentiio, in Hermon, N.Y.

Music & Culture

Musician Joanne Shenandoah, a powerful voice for Native culture, dies at 64

5:25pm November 27, 2021

by Marisa Arbona-Ruiz

A singer and composer whose songs bridged Native and numerous mainstream styles, Shenandoah was driven to create, and to share her history, with audiences around the world.

Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim in New York in 1976. Sondheim died on Friday at age 91.

Music & Culture

Stephen Sondheim, the Broadway legend, has died at 91

11:37pm November 26, 2021

by Jeff Lunden

The celebrated composer-songwriter died on Friday. He had won several Tonys and Grammys, as well as an Oscar and Pulitzer, for musicals including West Side Story and Company.

Stephen Sondheim, American musical theater icon, has died at age 91

8:24pm November 26, 2021

by Bob Mondello

Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, one of the most influential figures in the American musical theater, has died. He was 91.