Author: Carma Henry

Carma Lynn Henry Westside Gazette Newspaper 545 N.W. 7th Terrace, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33311 Office: (954) 525-1489 Fax: (954) 525-1861

Simeon Booker, a trailblazing Black journalist, who covered the Civil Rights Movement for the iconic African A-merican magazines EBONY and Jet and who was the first Black person to work as a full-time Washington Post reporter, has died.

The event was hosted by the Old Dillard Museum & Dillard Center for the Arts in memoriam of Fort Lauderdale’s greatest band director. In his honor, his nephew Nat Adderley, Jr., a nationally renowned jazz pianist who once was the music director and arranger for Luther Vandross, joined the DCA Jazz Ensemble on stage to pay tribute.

But 120 outlets in nine states and respect among his peers was not enough to prevent Hawthorne from taking his life on December 2 at the Golden Krust factory in The Bronx, New York. That’s the borough where the first Golden Krust opened in 1989.