After leaving South Africa, she pressed colleges, churches, unions, philanthropies and others to unload their stock in companies profiting from a racist system.
Author: SAM ROBERTS
Mark von Hagen, Critic of Times’s Stalin Coverage, Dies at 65
A historian, he was asked by the paper to judge whether a correspondent’s Pulitzer Prize should be revoked because of biased reporting. He said it should be.
Marita Lorenz, Who Told Tales of Castro and Kennedy, Dies at 80
She was romanced by revolutionaries. She was called “a patron saint of conspiracy buffs.” At least some of her stories appear to be true.
Leslie H. Gelb, 82, Former Diplomat and New York Times Journalist, Dies
He was an editor, columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for The Times and served in a variety of government posts.
Dr. Joel Filártiga, 86, Dies; Won Human Rights Ruling in Son’s Death
After the brutal death of his teenage son in Paraguay, he won a landmark case in the United States that extended universal law against torture.
Murray Polner, Antiwar Editor and Author, Is Dead at 91
An outspoken pacifist, Mr. Polner founded the progressive public affairs journal Present Tense in 1973 and was its only editor until it closed in 1990.
Dr. David Hamburg, Leader in Conflict Resolution, Dies at 93
As a behavioral scientist and president of the Carnegie Corporation, he took on policy issues that bring about “hatred and violence and ignorance.”
Sidney Verba, Innovative Scholar of Democracies, Dies at 86
His pioneering research compared civic participation and democracy in five countries. In a parallel career, he headed, and digitized, Harvard’s library.
William Blum, U.S. Policy Critic Cited by bin Laden, Dies at 85
He railed in relative obscurity against what he viewed as United States imperialism, until he received an unexpected endorsement from the founder of Al Qaeda.