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The feature was introduced on March 8, 2018, for International Women's Day, when the Times published fifteen obituaries of such "overlooked" women, and has since become a weekly feature in the paper. The project was created by Amisha Padnani, the digital editor of the obituaries desk, [1] and Jessica Bennett, the paper's gender editor. In its ...
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
L.C. Dorsey (also known as Dr. Lula C. Dorsey; December 17, 1938 – August 21, 2013) was a civil rights activist and prison reform advocate. She is known for her social justice advocacy work centered in Mississippi , specifically her efforts to address racial inequality.
Respected firearms expert, Second Amendment proponent and "gun dad of the internet" Paul Harrell died this week at the age of 58, posthumously releasing a pre-recorded YouTube video announcing the ...
The claim: Mark Twain said, 'I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.' After the death of conservative media personality Rush Limbaugh on Feb. 17, some ...
The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate [2] (commonly called The Times-Picayune or the T-P) is an American newspaper published in New Orleans, Louisiana. Ancestral publications of other names date back to January 25, 1837.
Due to the unpredictability of such circumstances, deaths of judges in active service are more likely to lead to judicial appointment controversies (where one party resists the confirmation of a judge appointed by a president of the other party); such deaths occasionally change the structure of the court itself, as legislators may seek to avoid changing the balance of a particular court by ...
In 2009, the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco launched an online searchable database of the more than 10,000 obituaries and death notices that have appeared in the Bay Area Reporter, starting with the first such article published in the newspaper in 1979; many of the obituaries reflect the catastrophic toll of the AIDS epidemic in San ...