The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
Once an undocumented sex worker and addict, she was a powerful advocate for marginalized people, and an irresistible story teller.
Author: Penelope Green
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Klee Benally, Navajo Activist and Artist, Dies at 48
The New York Times – Music:
He helped found a punk-rock band when he was 14. That led to a long career as an advocate for Native American and environmental causes.
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Jane Wodening, Experimental Film Star and Intrepid Writer, Dies at 87
The New York Times – Film:
For 30 years she collaborated with the filmmaker Stan Brakhage, her husband, often appearing on camera. After they divorced, she lived off the grid and wrote about her life.
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Helen Williams, a Top Model in a Segregated Era, Is Dead at 87
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
She was one of the most photographed Black models of the 1950s and ’60s, seen mainly in magazines, like Ebony and Jet, aimed at the Black middle class.
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Louis Oliver Gropp Dies at 88; Led Shelter Magazines Through Turmoil
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
He turned House & Garden into an upscale chronicle of the good life in the 1980s, and broadened the focus of House Beautiful in the 1990s.
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Georgia Dullea, 90, Dies; Reporter Chronicled a Changing Society
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
Writing for The Times with a gimlet eye, she examined the impact of no-fault divorces on women, the excesses of the Reagan years, the AIDS crisis, and more.