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Anthony Bourdain doc ‘an act of therapy’ for an acute loss

June 17, 2021 The Associated Press

NEW YORK — When the filmmaker Morgan Neville began making a documentary on Anthony Bourdain, the late chef and globe-trotting television host, one of the first things he did was comb through every song Bourdain […]

Astronaut Michael Collins, Apollo 11 pilot, dead of cancer

April 28, 2021 Jessica Gresko, The Associated Press

Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, who orbited the moon alone while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made their historic first steps on the lunar surface, died Wednesday. He was 90. Collins died of cancer, his […]

Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, dies aged 99

April 9, 2021 The Associated Press

LONDON — Prince Philip, the irascible and tough-minded husband of Queen Elizabeth II who spent more than seven decades supporting his wife in a role that both defined and constricted his life, has died, Buckingham […]

WILLIAMS: The Devil and Karl Marx

September 15, 2020 Walter Williams

Paul Kengor is a professor of political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania. He has just published “The Devil and Karl Marx,” a careful look at the diabolical side of Karl Marx. […]

MATTHEWS: The deaths of political figures bring out the worst in people, but it shouldn’t

August 4, 2020 Stacey Matthews, North State Journal

Last month, we lost some notable political figures both nationally and locally. Civil rights icon and longtime U.S. House Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) passed away from pancreatic cancer on July 17 at the age of […]

John Lewis, lion of civil rights and Congress, dies at 80

July 18, 2020 CALVIN WOODWARD and DESIREE SEALS

ATLANTA — John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated […]

MATTHEWS: In times of tragedy, we are reminded to stop sweating the small stuff

February 5, 2020 Stacey Matthews

I was sitting on the couch at Mom’s watching an old Western two Sundays ago when my mom told me to switch the TV over to Fox News. “What’s going on?” I asked, not really wanting to change […]

Former North Carolina US Sen Kay Hagan dies at age 66

October 28, 2019 North State Journal Staff & Wire Reports

RALEIGH — Kay Hagan, a former bank executive who rose from a budget writer in the North Carolina Legislature to a seat in the U.S. Senate, died Monday following a prolonged illness. She was 66. […]