Danny Simmons, an artist, poet, gallerist and energetic cultural organizer who, along with his younger brothers, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and rapper Joseph Simmons, best known as Rave Run of the group Run-DMC, did much to promote the work of emerging black artists, has died. He was 72 years old. His family announced the death
Jean Houston, a mesmerizing figure in the human potential movement of the 1960s who used guided imagination to inspire hapless suburbanites, burned-out executives and even Hillary Rodham Clinton, who helped Mrs. Clinton have imaginary conversations in the White House with Eleanor Roosevelt, died May 16 at her home in Ashland, Oreg. She was 89 years
As the founding editor of America’s first major hiking magazine and co-founder of the American Hiking Society, Kemsley, who died earlier this month at age 98, spent decades fighting to protect and preserve America’s wild places. William Kemsley (Photo: John McCauley) Published on June 18, 2026 02:00 pm when he founded backpacker in 1973, Bill
Robert Thurman, whose scholarly, enthusiastic efforts to expand the West’s understanding of Tibetan Buddhism earned him a reputation as “the Dalai Lama’s man in America,” died Tuesday at his home in Woodstock, N.Y. He was 84. His daughter, actress Uma Thurman, confirmed the death. Widely considered the leading expert on Tibetan Buddhism in the United
Carlo Ginzburg, an Italian scholar famous for his approach to history that focused on the group of humanity that existed outside the political and social elites of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, died on Wednesday in Bologna. He was 87 years old. His death was announced by the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, where he
When Gregory Williams was 10 years old, his life changed forever. This was not just because his father’s tavern, which had supported the family, had failed. Or because her mother moved in with her two younger siblings, Rita and Anthony, when she could no longer tolerate the beatings of her alcoholic husband. The greatest change
One day in the early 1940s, David Plowden picked up his Kodak Brownie box camera and headed with his mother to the train depot near his family’s farm in Vermont. He was 11 years old and so fascinated by steam engines that he often traveled on the railway tracks and befriended some of the conductors
Updated June 15, 2026 04:06 pm UPDATE: June 15: The man who jumped with Lewis has been identified as 68-year-old Danny Joe Craigle of Arizona, according to Moab. Times-Independent. Phenomenal adventurer Andrew “Sketchy Andy” Lewis died Sunday, June 14, BASE jumping in Moab, Utah. Lewis, 39, was parachuting with an unidentified man strapped to his
Jane Yolen, a children’s author who wrote about 450 books in practically every imaginable genre, including history, how-to, science fiction and poetry, and whose immensely popular children’s books, rich in folklore and fantasy, earned her the nickname “America’s Hans Christian Andersen,” died Thursday at her home in Hatfield, a town in western Massachusetts. She was
YouTuber Gaspi has also died. The South American social media influencer died on June 14, 2026, in the helicopter crash that killed singer/comedian Oliver Tree. according to tmz“Argentine YouTuber panting– whose real name was Gaspar Prime – is among six people who lost their lives in a helicopter crash in Rio de Janeiro on June