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Philip Roth, acclaimed author of Portnoy's Complaint, dies in a Manhattan hospital of congestive heart failure on May 22, 2018, at the age of 85.[38][39]

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/news/philip-roth-acclaimed-author-american-pastoral-dies-aged-85/
 
 
Michael Goldstein, Publicist Who Started SoHo Weekly News, Dies at 79
Michael Goldstein, a music publicist who made a fortune turning vinyl records into gold before starting The SoHo Weekly News, a spirited newspaper that over a nine-year run was bent on silencing its rival The Village Voice, died on May 19 at his home in Manhattan.
 
Angelo Falcón (June 23, 1951 – May 24, 2018), Advocate for Latinos in New York, was a Puerto Rican political scientist best known for starting the Institute for Puerto Rican Policy (IPR) in New York City in the early 1980s, a nonprofit and nonpartisan policy center that focuses on Latino issues in the United States. It is now known as the National Institute for Latino Policy and Falcón serves as its current President. He was also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Columbia University School of Public and International Affairs (S.I.P.A.).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Falcón

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/25/obituaries/angelo-falcon-advocate-for-latinos-in-new-york-dies-at-66.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/obituaries&action=click&contentCollection=obituaries&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront
 
The Russian playwright and screenwriter Elena Gremina, who has died aged 61 of heart failure, was one of the founders of Teatr.doc, the Moscow theatre that acted as a powerhouse of new writing. The other founder was her husband, Mikhail Ugarov, who died of a heart attack last month. They were at the centre of a rallying force of artistic opposition to the Russian regime, staging openly critical works that challenged rules imposed by the state, and giving others the space and support to do the same.
 
Celia Brackenridge, who has died aged 67 from leukaemia, was an international sportswoman, a campaigner for women’s causes and an authority on child protection in sport. She carried out pioneering work on the sexual abuse and harassment of young athletes and footballers by their coaches in the 1980s and 90s. Her research led her further to examine the sexual, physical and emotional abuse of all athletes, her findings being met with total denial by the then sports establishment.
 
Sam Nzima (8 August 1934 in Lillydale, Bushbuckridge – 12 May 2018 in Nelspruit)[1] was the South African photographer who took and exposed the brutality of apartheid to the world in what became the well known image of Hector Pieterson, one of the first students to be killed during the 1976 Soweto uprising, but struggled for years to get the copyright.[2]
 
Joan Wile, a former songwriter and actress who in her 70s weaponized the power of grandmotherhood by organizing a nine-year-long weekly vigil by fellow venerable protesters against the war in Iraq, died on May 4 in Nanuet, N.Y. She was 86.
 
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