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ATLANTA, GA - MAY 29: A man stands on top of a burning police car during a protest on May 29, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. Demonstrations are being held across the US after George Floyd died in police custody on May 25th in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)
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ATLANTA, GA - MAY 29: A man waves a Black Lives Matter flag during a protest on May 29, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. Demonstrations are being held across the US after George Floyd died in police custody on May 25th in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)
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ATLANTA, GA - MAY 29: Police officers grapple with protesters on May 29, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. Demonstrations are being held across the US after George Floyd died in police custody on May 25th in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)
Celebrity deaths in 2020: Remembering stars who died this year
Updated Dec 30, 2020;
Posted Dec 19, 2020
2020 celebrity deaths included actors Sean Connery, Chadwick Boseman and Kelly Preston and rocker Eddie Van Halen. (AP)
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Celebrity deaths: In memoriam 2020
As we near the end of 2020, we take time to look back at those celebrities and other famous individuals we have lost in the past year. Check out our slideshows to learn more about those stars who have passed on.
Singer Hillard “Sweet Pea” Atkinson, 1945 - 2020
Ohio native and former member of Was (Not Was) also collaborated with the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan and Sir Elton John over the course of his career
Sharron Cohen
Sharron Frontiero was a young lieutenant in the Air Force when she first filed a lawsuit against the federal government on the basis of sex. It later came to the attention of a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who signed onto the case in 1972, setting up her first appearance before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Frontiero, now Sharron Cohen, was the plaintiff in
Frontiero v. Richardson, in which she sought a dependent s allowance for her husband. That same benefit is owed to wives of male members of the military, according to federal law. I was married, and I expected a housing allowance and I wasn t eligible for it because I was a woman, Sharron, 73, said in a recent StoryCorps interview recorded with her son Nathan, 41.
Harvard Medical School Professor Paul E. Farmer became the fifth recipient of the annual Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture, the Berggruen Institute announced Wednesday.
Farmer was awarded $1 million for his work in advancing “global public health equity” and pioneering healthcare systems, especially in Haiti and West Africa, according to the institute’s press release.
The award is given to “thinkers whose ideas have profoundly shaped human self-understanding and advancement in a rapidly changing world,” the release reads. Farmer, who holds the highest faculty rank as a University professor, joins Harvard Law School alumna and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg among the award s recepients.
6 Arizonans discuss the impact Ruth Bader Ginsburg had on their lives
Dec. 18, 2020
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died three months ago. Her legacy continues, and women across Arizona explain how she made an impact on their lives. (Photo by Hope O’Brien/Cronkite News)
PHOENIX – Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a towering figure in the fight against discrimination based on gender, and her death Sept. 18 was a blow to many women who reverently refer to her as the Notorious RBG. On the three-month anniversary of Ginsburg’s death, women across the state continue to remember her legacy.
Cronkite News asked six Arizona women to reflect on how their lives have been affected by Ginsburg, 87, who served 27 years on the Supreme Court and was a founding counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union’s Women’s Rights Project, which resulted in the high court’s 1971 decision that the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment applies to women.