Pioneering black journalist Simeon Booker dies at age 99
WASHINGTON (AP) " Simeon Booker, a trail-blazing journalist and the first full-time African-American reporter at The Washington Post, has died at the age of 99.Booker died Sunday in Solomons, Maryland, according to a Post obituary, citing his wife Carol.Booker served for decades as the Washington bureau chief for the African-American publications Jet weekly and Ebony monthly. He is credited with bringing to national prominence the death of Emmett Till, the 14-year old African- [...]
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