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Sunday 29 May 2016

The New York Times, Today's Headlines Sunday, May 29, 2016

Obituaries
Judge Marcus D. Gordon, in 2005, at the arraignment for Edgar Ray Killen in the killing of three civil rights workers in 1964.
Marcus D. Gordon, Judge in 'Mississippi Burning' Case, Dies at 84

By SAM ROBERTS

Four decades after three civil rights workers were kidnapped and killed, the judge sentenced an acquaintance accused of orchestrating the killings.
A protest in Cairo in 2009. Hedy Epstein, center, spent much of her life working for a broad range of social justice movements.
Hedy Epstein, Rights Activist and Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 91

By WILLIAM GRIMES

Ms. Epstein's parents died in Auschwitz and she devoted her life to social justice, telling audiences, "Remember the past, don't hate, don't be a bystander."
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