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1 week ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Matt Schudel
Susan Brownmiller, feminist author of ‘Against Our Will,’ dies at 90 (washingtonpost.com) Susan Brownmiller, feminist author of ‘Against Our Will,’ dies at 90 By Matt Schudel 2025052601273500 Susan Brownmiller, a leading activist and writer of the feminist movement whose influential book "Against Our Will" reshaped the public understanding of rape, defining it not just as a crime but as an act of violence meant to intimidate and subjugate women, died May 24 at a hospital in the Bronx. She was...
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3 weeks ago | 
independent.co.uk | Matt Schudel
He repeatedly spoke out against intolerance toward immigrants and other minorities and attended memorial services for Turkish victims of neo-Nazi violenceMatt SchudelRichard von Weizsäcker was a former soldier in Hitler's army who used his largely ceremonial office as president of Germany to denounce his country's Nazi past and to condemn intolerance toward immigrants and other minorities.
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4 weeks ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Matt Schudel
Joseph S. Nye Jr., political scientist behind ‘soft power,’ dies at 88 (washingtonpost.com) Joseph S. Nye Jr., political scientist behind ‘soft power,’ dies at 88 By Matt Schudel 2025050902100800 Joseph S. Nye Jr., a Harvard scholar who coined the term "soft power" to describe how cultural forces, humanitarian aid and education can be as effective in diplomatic efforts as military and economic might, died May 6 at a hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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2 months ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Matt Schudel
John T. Casteen III, an English professor who spent two decades as president of the University of Virginia, raising the institution’s academic profile, increasing its endowment and expanding financial support for students, died March 18 at his home in Keswick, Virginia. He was 81. The cause was pancreatic cancer, said his son John T. Casteen IV. Dr. Casteen was a native Virginian who had three degrees from the commonwealth’s flagship university in Charlottesville.
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2 months ago | 
editorandpublisher.com | Matt Schudel
Posted Friday, March 14, 2025 9:55 am John Feinstein, a Washington Post sportswriter who became the best-selling author of more than 40 books, including “A Season on the Brink,” an inside look at volatile Indiana University men’s basketball coach Bob Knight, died March 13 at his brother’s home in McLean, Virginia. He was 69. His brother, Robert Feinstein, confirmed the death and said the cause may have been a heart attack. Click here to read more....
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2 months ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Matt Schudel |Brian Murphy
John Feinstein, a Washington Post sportswriter who became the best-selling author of more than 40 books, including “A Season on the Brink,” an inside look at volatile Indiana University men’s basketball coach Bob Knight, died March 13 at his brother’s home in McLean, Virginia. He was 68. His brother, Robert Feinstein, confirmed the death but said the cause was not immediately clear. Mr. Feinstein, who joined The Post in 1977 as a night police reporter, soon distinguished himself on the sports beat.
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2 months ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Matt Schudel
Juan Hamilton, a sculptor and potter who served as artist Georgia O’Keeffe’s late-in-life caretaker and traveling companion and who sparked controversy and legal disputes after he inherited much of her estimated $70 million estate, died Feb. 20 at his home in Santa Fe. He was 79. His wife, Anna Marie Hamilton, said the cause was complications from a subdural hematoma linked to injuries he had suffered in the past.
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Mar 7, 2025 | 
washingtonpost.com | Matt Schudel
Juan Hamilton, a sculptor and potter who served as artist Georgia O’Keeffe’s late-in-life caretaker and traveling companion and who sparked controversy and legal disputes after he inherited much of her estimated $70 millionestate, died Feb. 20 at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was 79. His wife, Anna Marie Hamilton, said the cause was complications from a subdural hematoma linked to injuries he had suffered in the past.
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Feb 24, 2025 | 
spokesman.com | Matt Schudel
Roberta Flack, a classically trained pianist who taught in the D.C. school system before launching a singing career that made her one of the most popular performers of the 1970s, with such No. 1 hits as “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” died Feb. 24 at her home in New York City. She was 88. The cause was complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, sometimes called Lou Gehrig’s disease, said her publicist Elaine Schock.
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Feb 24, 2025 | 
washingtonpost.com | Matt Schudel
Roberta Flack, a classically trained pianist who taught in the D.C. school system before launching a singing career that made her one of the most popular performers of the 1970s, with such No. 1 hits as “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” died Feb. 24 at her home in New York City. She was 88. The cause was complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, sometimes called Lou Gehrig’s disease, said her publicist Elaine Schock.
