Prior to President Bill Clinton appointing her to the office in 1993, she had been on the U.S. Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg used her 27 years as a chief justice to stand up for gender equality, champion workers’ rights, and solidify the separation of church and state. Photo: Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesĪs the second woman to be appointed to the U.S. “But to me and my brothers Joel and Peter he was simply Dad, to Catherine, a wonderful father-in-law, to his grandchildren and great-grandchild their loving grandfather, and to his wife Anne, a wonderful husband.” The three-time Oscar nominee who worked his way up from a poor immigrant family was also known for writing fiction and nonfiction books and his philanthropy through the Douglas Foundation. “To the world, he was a legend, an actor from the golden age of movies who lived well into his golden years, a humanitarian whose commitment to justice and the causes he believed in set a standard for all of us to aspire to,” the younger Douglas told People.
When Hollywood icon Kirk Douglas - best known for his leading role in 1960's Spartacus - passed away at the age of 103, it was his son Michael Douglas, who followed his father into the business and starred with him in It Runs in the Family (2003), that made the announcement. Read more about the other victims.ĭelaina Yaun (July 20, 1987-March 16, 2021) Xiaojie Tan (March 18, 1971-March 16, 2021) Feng Daoyou (Jan.Kirk Douglas in his Beverly Hills home, March 2003 Her brother described her to NPR as tough, and someone who never gave up. She worked 15-hour workdays as a beautician and sent money home to support her mother in China. People she had never met volunteered to organize her funeral. for about five years, with no next of kin or close friends here. Delaina Yaun, 33, and Paul Michels, 54, were also killed.įeng Daoyou had lived in the U.S. Six of the victims were women of Asian descent who worked at the spas - Suncha Kim, 69 Soon Chung Park, 74 Hyun Jung Grant, 51 Yong Ae Yue, 63 spa owner Xiaojie "Emily" Tan, 49 and Feng Daoyou, 44.
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On March 16, eight people were killed in a series of shootings at Atlanta-area spas.
Listen to a 2008 interview with Jordan on Tell Me More.Įmmanuel Adufah at a memorial in Monterrey Park, Calif., in honor of the victims of three shootings at spas in the Atlanta area that killed eight people, March 2021. Tapped to be chairman of President Bill Clinton's transition team from 1992-93, Jordan continued to be a friend and adviser to Bill and Hillary Clinton for decades. He also served as head of the National Urban League and the United Negro College Fund. As a field director of the Georgia NAACP, he escorted Charlayne Hunter through a crowd of white protesters at the University of Georgia when she became one of the first Black students at the school. After earning a law degree at Howard University, Jordan embarked on a career fighting for equal rights, playing a key role in desegregating education in the South. Vernon Jordan, a civil rights lawyer who devoted himself to ending discrimination against Black Americans and later made his mark on the worlds of politics and business, died at 85. Vernon Jordan outside NBC's studio in Washington, D.C., after appearing on Meet the Press, November 1992.
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