Pioneering pop music chart analyst Joel Whitburn dies at 82
Joel Whitburn, who turned his fascination with the Billboard charts into a career cataloging the history of charted musi...
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'Wicked' welcomes a pioneering good witch, Brittney Johnson
While many people spent Valentine’s Day with the traditional flowers and chocolates, Brittney Johnson was making theater...
Pioneering comic Paul Mooney, a writer for Pryor, dies at 79
Paul Mooney, a boundary-pushing comedian who was Richard Pryor’s longtime writing partner and whose bold, incisive musin...
Pioneering Hollywood casting director Lynn Stalmaster dies
Lynn Stalmaster, an Oscar-winning casting director whose eye for talent helped launch the careers of John Travolta, Chri...
Cicely Tyson, purposeful and pioneering actor, dead at 96
Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who earned an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in “Soun...
Italy's pioneering comic actor, Franca Valeri, dies at 100
Franca Valeri, an elegant, ironic and versatile actor who pioneered Italian female comic roles in the post-war years, ha...
Pioneering black NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson dies
NASA says pioneering black mathematician Katherine Johnson has died