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Pioneering Black feminist Dorothy Pitman Hughes dies at 84

Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a pioneering Black feminist, child welfare advocate and lifelong community activist who toured the country speaking with Gloria Steinem in the 1970s and appears with her in one of the most iconic photos of the second-wave feminist movement, has died. She was 84.

Though they came to feminism from different places — Hughes from community activism and Steinem from journalism — the two forged a powerful speaking partnership in the early 1970s, touring the country at a time when feminism was seen as predominantly white and middle class, a divide dating back to the origins of the American women’s movement. Steinem credited Hughes with helping her become comfortable speaking in public.

In one of the most famous images of the era, taken in October 1971, the two raised their right arms in the Black Power salute. The photo is now in the National Portrait Gallery.

Hughes, her work always rooted in community activism, organized the first shelter for battered women in New York City and co-founded the New York City Agency for Child Development to broaden childcare services in the city. But she was perhaps best known for her work helping countless families through the community center she established on Manhattan’s West Side, offering day care, job training, advocacy training and more.

Drew Griffin, CNN's award-winning senior investigative correspondent, known for getting even the cagiest of interview subjects to engage in a story, died Saturday, December 17, after a long battle with cancer, his family said. He was 60. Jeremy Freeman/CNN

Transgender rights activist Henry Berg-Brousseau dies aged 24
His mother, Kentucky state senator Karen Berg, said he killed himself after ‘difficulty finding acceptance’

Lois Beckett and agencies
Thu 22 Dec 2022 03.18 GMT

Henry Berg-Brousseau, a transgender rights advocate whose story helped inspire opposition to trans-restrictive legislation in Kentucky, has died. He was 24.

Berg-Brousseau, of Arlington, Virginia, was the deputy press secretary for politics for the Human Rights Campaign, one of the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations.

Berg-Brousseau died on Friday, said his mother, the Kentucky state senator Karen Berg. He “long struggled with mental illness, not because he was trans but born from his difficulty finding acceptance”, she said in a news release. The cause was suicide, she said.

“The vitriol against trans people is not happening in a vacuum,” Berg said in a statement. “It is not just a way of scoring political points by exacerbating the culture wars. It has real world implications.”


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Mrich wrote: ↑Thu Dec 29, 2022 2:14 pm Pelé, Brazilian soccer superstar, at 82

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keith wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 10:25 pm Will SNL cover the sad demise of Baba Wawa?

Unfortunately, we have some sad news to share about the Bald Eagle that was undergoing care after an extraordinary rescue by Chicago Bird Collision Monitors (CBCM)on Jan 1st. Despite promising signs of recovery the first 48 hrs, the bird took a very rapid turn for the worst. The bird’s PCV (packed cell volume), and estimation of red blood cells, dropped from 29% at intake to just 6% last evening and eventually passed away before a blood transfusion could be initiated. The bird showed a large amount of bruising of the skin around the legs despite already being on treatment for anticoagulant rodenticides. Unfortunately, we do see this progression in wildlife cases often – an initial improvement likely related to being warmed up and rehydrated but then a rapid decline as the underlying cause of illness was just too much for the body to overcome.

We will be sending this bird out for a necropsy so that we can have a definitive diagnosis for cause of death (as this has not been a straightforward case with an easy diagnosis). We thank everyone for their support and we want people to remember that this outcome does not take away from the amazing efforts of the public and CBCM in their rescue of this bird!

Picture from day of rescue, courtesy of CBCM.

Ron Filipkowski
@RonFilipkowski
Trump breaks news that Diamond of Diamond & Silk has died.