In the 1950s and ’60s, when Black leading men and women were virtually nonexistent on British screens, he became a star. He continued to make movies into his 90s.
By Steven Kurutz
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The towering defender won the World Cup with his home country in 1966 and went on to coach the Irish national team to memorable runs at tournaments in Italy in 1990 and the U.S. in 1994.
After advising multinationals for 30 years, he began teaching and writing, criticizing corporate tax dodging and pressing for higher taxes to combat inequality.
Along with his fellow Barbados batsmen Frank Worrell and Clyde Walcott — together they were “the three Ws” — he broke the sport’s longstanding color barrier.
As the store’s head of publicity, she promoted top designers. She also lived a glamorous life as the friend and caregiver of the actress Claudette Colbert.
She endeared herself to audiences with her grace, naturalism and comic skill. She fell ill after filming a TV series in May and died from Covid-19 in July.
He worked at a shelter in Texas and as a juvenile probation officer; he wanted, his daughter said, to make a difference. He died of complications of the novel coronavirus.
A member of the Black Panthers, he helped lead a historic, and successful, sit-in in San Francisco as part of a nationwide anti-discrimination campaign on behalf of people with disabilities.
Before the word “homosexuality” existed, he argued that same-sex attraction was innate, and that those who experienced it should be treated the same as anyone else.
Cowell is the first woman known to undergo sex reassignment surgery in Britain. But after a splash in the 1950s, she withdrew from public life and died in obscurity.
Lee and Gee never met, but as the only two Chinese-American women pilots during the war, their lives ran a strikingly similar course, and both thwarted layers of prejudice.
