simeon booker dies
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Simeon Booker, Dean of Black Journalists, Dies at 99
Simeon Booker, who for 50 years was Washington bureau chief for Jet and Ebony magazines and at age 99 the dean of black journalists, died Sunday at an assisted-living community in Solomons, Md. He had recently been hospitalized for pneumonia, said his wife, Carol McCabe Booker, Emily Langer reported for the Washington Post. “Few reporters…
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Trailblazing Civil Rights Journalist Simeon Booker Dies at Age 99
Simeon Booker, the trailblazing black journalist known for detailing African-American life in Ebony and Jet magazines, died Sunday at the age of 99 in an assisted-living community in Maryland. Booker had many accolades under his belt, including having been the first full-time black reporter at the Washington Post. He is also credited with bringing the…