In Memoriam

Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, the patriarch of the first family of Democratic politics, died shortly before Midnight Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. He was 77. The man known as the “liberal lion of the Senate” had fought a more than year-long battle with brain cancer, and according to his son had lived […]

E. Lynn Harris, the author who introduced millions of readers to the “invisible life” of black gay men, died Thursday while on a business trip in Los Angeles. Harris, 54, was a literary pioneer who wrote a series of novels that exposed readers to characters rarely depicted in literature: black, affluent gay men who were […]