frances goldin helped start the cooper square committee that advocated for tenant rights, community-based planning, and affordable housing. as a literary agent, goldin's clients included barbara kingsolver, adrienne rich, democracy now!'s juan gonzalez, and the internationally renowned imprisoned journalist mumia abu-jamal. goldin talked about mumia's case on democracy now! in 2014. >> our prison system locks up millions of people who have never committed a crime in their life. the prime one being mumia blue jamaal, who never killed anyone, and woman who was grieving her departed husband, she grieved for the person who really killed the guy and not for mumia, who had nothing to do with that murder. and who has incidentally become theof the look -- one of leading intellectuals in the united states. frances goldin has died at the age of and those are some of the 96. headlines. this i is democracy now!, demomocracynow.org, , the quarae report. i'm amy goodman. when we come back, we'll spend the hour looking at the history of epidemics from blacack deatho prpresent with renowned historin fran