Former South Carolina Sen. Kay Patterson, who rose from cleaning offices at the segregated Statehouse to serving as a state legislator for over 30 years died Friday. He was 93.
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Daniel Whyte Iii, President Of Gospel Light Society International, Says Rich American Black And White Republican And Democrat Pastors Such As The Following Ought To Lead All Pastors And Churches To “Go And Do Thou Likewise” As The Poor Kenyan Pastors Are Doing:
I had the pleasure of seeing Giovanni during a lecture series at North Carolina State University while attending St. Augustine’s College in Raleigh. Professor Diane Cherry asked a classmate and I if we were interested in seeing her, and of course, it was a resounding yes. After all, we had studied Giovanni’s most prominent poems and reviewed a few of her books in our American Literature class.
Jamaican businessman and owner of Pier One on the Waterfront, Robert Russell, has died. He was 75 years old.
Giovanni rose to prominence during the 1960s as a fierce voice in the Black Arts Movement, alongside literary giants such as Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange, and Sonia Sanchez.
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The Connecticut NAACP says that former Hartford Mayor Thirman Milner has died
Thirman L. Milner, whose election as Hartford’s mayor in 1981 made him the first popularly elected Black mayor of a New England city, an accomplishment tempered by a city charter that gave him scant power over three two-year terms, died Friday. He was 91.
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