Prominent African-Americans finally get the obituaries they were denied
by Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune
Feb 06, 2019
2 minutes
You can learn a tremendous amount about our country's history and its present state by reading whose death didn't merit an obituary in The New York Times.
The newspaper launched "Overlooked" last March, in time for International Women's Day, with a series of obits for 15 remarkable women whose deaths went unremarked upon at the time of their death. (Author Sylvia Plath, journalist Ida B. Wells,
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