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dies at 98 – CNN


He was 98. “Last night my dad passed away,” Rob Reiner wrote. “As I write this my heart is hurting. He was my guiding light.” His career spanned live television, Broadway, motion pictures, record albums and a variety of guest appearances. He was a performer and writer on the legendary “Your Show of Shows.” He …

He once said he missed “Martin” and other civil rights activists who had died before him. But he felt that God was keeping him for a single cause: To address the injustices of the criminal justice system, particularly toward poor black men. “It’s the last facet here of racial oppression,” Lowery once said of the …