Robin Morgan, poet and feminist whose allies included Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem, dies at 85

Women’s rights activist Robin Morgan attends a Women’s Liberation conference in New York on May 28, 1970. (AP Photo/Ed Ford, File)

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Robin Morgan, left, and Jane Fonda attend the Women’s Media Center’s 21st anniversary Women’s Media Awards at Tribeca Rooftop, March 5, 2026, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)

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Robin Morgan, a child television actor, poses for a photo in New York on April 24, 1954. (AP Photo/Bob Wands)

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Robin Morgan, 5, who presides over a 15-minute network canned-music show every Saturday morning, poses for a photo in New York on Aug. 8, 1947. (AP Photo/Robert Kradin, File)

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NEW YORK (AP) — Robin Morgan, a wholesome child star of the 1940s and ‘50s who grew up to become an all-American radical as a poet, essayist, editor and second-wave feminist, has died. She was 85.

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Morgan, who was still working on new books and poems, died Saturday in New York after suffering a series of health problems in recent weeks, said her son, Blake Morgan. Her death came just days after that of her close friend and fellow activist Gloria Steinem.

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During the 1960s and ’70s, Morgan embodied and inspired historic changes in how women lived and thought. As…

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