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Dexter Scott King, the youngest son and third child of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died at 62 due to complications from prostate cancer. Leah Weber King shared the news in a statement released by the National Action Network that her husband died in his sleep at his home in Malibu, California. She said, “He…

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Norman Lear, the influential television writer, producer, and developer who dominated the American prime-time comedy lineup in the 1970s and destroyed barriers with sitcoms that wrung humor out of the country’s culture wars, has died, according to his family. He was 101 years old. Lear’s family said in a statement, “Thank you for the moving…

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Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, known for her advocacy of numerous causes, including mental health, and the wife of former President Jimmy Carter, died at 96 on Sunday, November 19th. She was recently admitted to hospice care at her home in Plains, Georgia. In May 2023, her family announced that she had been diagnosed with…

Rick Hoyt, a man with quadriplegia who raced in the Boston Marathon and other races in a wheelchair with the help of his father, recently died at 61. According to a statement from the Hoyt family, Rick died of complications with his respiratory system. The family statement read, “Rick and our father, Dick, were icons…

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