Television
Showtime’s ‘The One and Only Dick Gregory’ is an enlightening and deeply moving story about the life and times of a man not easy to categorize.
July 2, 2021
California
At 56, Dick Gregory, the comedian-social satirist whose inflammatory social insights sting everyone from Lee Iacocca to the CIA, still puts together such a quick-moving string of polemics that most audiences find it difficult to keep up with him.
Jan. 15, 1988
Comedian and social activist Dick Gregory died Sunday at 84.
Aug. 19, 2017
Opinion
To the editor: Dick Gregory embodied the rebellious spirit of the 1960s.
Aug. 25, 2017
Obituaries
Within minutes of Dick Gregory’s death Saturday, fans and fellow performers flocked to Twitter to pay tribute to the pioneer black comedian and civil rights activist.
Movies
Comedian and activist Dick Gregory died Saturday at 84.
Oct. 5, 1995
World & Nation
Dick Gregory, who became the first black stand-up comic to break the color barrier in major nightclubs in the early 1960s, a decade in which he satirized segregation and race relations in his act and launched his lifetime commitment to civil rights and other social justice issues, died Saturday.
Entertainment & Arts
Sept. 7, 2017