Journalist who covered civil rights dies
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William E. Peters, a journalist who wrote one of the first national articles on Martin Luther King Jr., has died. He was 85.
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The author of "Death of a Salesman," whose work exposed the flaws in the fabric of the American dream, died Thursday.
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Fannie Lee Chaney, the mother of one of three civil-rights workers killed in the "Mississippi Burning" case in 1964, has died, her son said Wednesday. Chaney, 84, had lived to see a reputed Klan leader convicted two years ago in the young men's deaths.
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Susan Sontag, the author, human rights activist and social critic, has died in a New York cancer hospital, aged 71. Ms Sontag, who had suffered from leukemia for some time, was known for interests that ranged
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A Londoner believed to be the world's oldest newspaper columnist dies at the age of 101.
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Best-selling author and journalist Bebe Moore Campbell, who tackled social issues from an African American perspective in books like "Brothers and Sisters," has died of complications from brain cancer.
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Frances Lewine, who covered the White House for the Associated Press during the administrations of six presidents and spent nearly three decades as a CNN assignment editor and field producer, died Saturday of an apparent stroke. She was 86.
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TV news executive Gordon Manning, who helped guide coverage of some of the 20th century's most significant events and arranged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's first interview on U.S. television, has died. He was 89.
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: Pierre Salinger, who served as President John F. Kennedy&#39;s Press Secretary and later had a long career with ABC News, has died, the network said.
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A Commons motion pays tribute to BBC News website writer Ivan Noble, who died from a brain tumour on Monday.
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Political pioneer Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman elected to Congress and a champion of women's rights, died on Saturday in Florida, congressional officials said. She was 80.
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Willem Oltmans, without doubt the Netherlands' most colourful and controversial journalist, succumbed to cancer at the age of 79 in his hometown Amsterdam on Thursday.
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Gary Webb, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who wrote a controversial series of stories linking the CIA to crack cocaine trafficking in Los Angeles, has died at age 49.
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Political pioneer Shirley Chisholm,  the first African American woman elected to Congress and a  champion of women's rights, died on Saturday in Florida,  congressional officials said. She was 80.
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Author Larry Brown, who wrote about the often rough, gritty lives of rural Southerners, died Wednesday at his home, his publisher said. He was 53.
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Mr. Morgan was a former reporter and editor at The New York Times who was a president of the National Association of Black Journalists.
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One of the country's best-read columnists has died after suffering from a brain tumour, the Daily Mail says.