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Jo Ann Bland, Child Activist in Civil Rights Struggle, Dies at 72

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:35:20 +0000

At 11, she was one of the youngest at the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” voting rights march in Selma, Ala., and was injured while crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

Jeff Galloway, Olympian Who Transformed American Distance Running, Dies at 80

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:21:56 +0000

A runner, coach and best-selling author, he created the widely embraced run-walk-run method, which helped make running more accessible to the public.

Teresa de Lauretis, Coiner (and Critic) of Queer Theory, Dies at 87

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:13:15 +0000

She came up with the term as the title of a 1990 conference but saw its later popularity as a little superficial.