Studs Terkel

Hans Massaquoi dies at 87; wrote of growing up black in Nazi Germany

2013-01-22 16:00:00

Hans Massaquoi, a former managing editor of Ebony magazine who wrote a distinctive memoir about his unusual childhood growing up black in Nazi Germany, died in Jacksonville, Fla., on Saturday, his 87th birthday. He had been hospitalized over the...

Marvin Miller dies at 95; baseball union chief led push for free agency

2012-11-28 00:00:00

Nothing about Marvin Miller seemed feisty or controversial at first glance; the soft-spoken economist was a smallish man with gray hair and a tidy mustache. But as a union leader, it was Miller who took on baseball's establishment in the late 1960s,...

Anna Deavere Smith on healthcare, mimicry and President Obama

2012-01-13 16:36:08

Barbara Kingsolver to receive lifetime achievement award

2011-08-02 16:35:27

Geraldine Brooks to receive the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's lifetime achievement award

2010-08-19 16:34:38

Backers of legalizing marijuana in California are counting on support from young voters

2010-11-01 21:33:59

Studs Terkel and the FBI

2009-11-18 16:33:38

Everyday Joe TV catches fire -- with help from the Cable Guy, Sarah Palin and Kate Gosselin

2010-05-07 16:35:16

Second City's first-rate legacy

2009-12-06 00:00:00

It was born of University of Chicago nerds at the end of McCarthyism, back when cutting-edge comedy meant jokes about your mother-in-law. It fed on the slow Chicago burn of 1960s counterculture, even though the demons of drugs and alcohol took down more...

Stephen E. Toulmin dies at 87; USC philosopher developed a model for building an effective argument

2009-12-13 00:00:00

Stephen E. Toulmin, a British-born philosopher and retired USC professor who created a model for evaluating the practical arguments that arise from daily life during a six-decade career that brought him prominence in several fields, has died. He was 87....

Stronger unions mean a strong middle class

2007-02-17 00:00:00

POLLS TELL US that 58% of eligible workers would join a union if they could, yet union membership in the private sector plummeted to 7.4% in 2006, a record low. What explains this yawning gap? The fact that, for many Americans, joining a union has...

Writers and editors

2008-12-28 00:00:00

Writers and editors George MacDonald Fraser, 82; author of the "Flashman" series of historical adventure novels (Jan. 2) Gilbert A. Harrison, 92; editor of the New Republic, helped launch new talent (Jan. 3) Philip Agee, 72; former CIA official wrote...

The only man on this list to get his own bridge! His real name was Louis.

2012-08-01 00:00:00

Studs Terkel, Mike Royko, and Nelson Algren

2012-05-29 11:47:00

Studs Terkel, Sept. 30, 2001 in Chicago.

2012-05-11 09:19:00