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11-21-2024 2:14 am • PDX and SEA Weather
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Peggy Joan Maxie, August 18, 1936 - February 18, 2024
Maxie was the first African American woman elected to the Washington State House of Representatives, serving the 37th District from 1971 to 1982.
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Hydia Broadbent in 1997 (Craig L. Moran/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)
A 7-year-old Broadbent became a national symbol of HIV/AIDS advocacy when she joined Magic Johnson on a 1992 Nickelodeon channel TV special. Broadbent made the talk-show circuit as a child, met the president and first lady, spoke at the 1996 Republican National Convention and was featured on a segment on ABC’s “20/20.”
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Joe Madison (Photo: joemadison.com)
In a statement, Madison’s family invited fans and friends to send condolences. “Joe dedicated his life to fighting for all those who are undervalued, underestimated, and marginalized. On air he often posed the question, ‘What are you going to do about it?’. Although he is no longer with us, we hope you will join us in answering that call by continuing to be proactive in the fight against injustice…”
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Norman Branch, July 29, 1955 - January 31, 2024
Service will be held Saturday, February 17, 2024
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Dexter King, son of Martin Luther King Jr. (AP Photo/Leita Cowart, file)
The King Center in Atlanta says the 62-year-old son of the civil rights leader died in his sleep on Monday at his home in Malibu, California. Named for the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, where his father once served as pastor, he was just 7 years old when his father was assassinated in 1968. He became chairman of the King Center, where he shepherded his parents' legacy and focused on protecting the King family's intellectual property.
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Peter Magubane/Photo by SA History Online
The South African photographer is best known for capturing 40 years of apartheid in the country and was entrusted with documenting Nelson Mandela’s first years of freedom after his release from prison.
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(AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)
The nurse from Texas helped bring hundreds of millions of federal dollars to the Dallas area as the region's most powerful Democrat. Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson said in a statement that she was the “single most effective legislator Dallas has ever had.”
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(AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)
The Chicago-born actor had his breakthrough role alongside Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman in 1989’s “Glory" the Oscar-winning film about an All-black regiment during the Civil War. He won two Emmys and was nominated 11 times.
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Ellen Holly
America’s first Black soap opera star was also an acclaimed Broadway and film actress
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(AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, file)
Before his peers would label him a heretic, the late Bishop Carlton D. Pearson was once one of the best known preachers in the United States. But things changed dramatically in the 2000s. Pearson underwent a cataclysmic theological shift that altered the course of his life and legacy; notably, he rejected the concept of hell Pearson, 70, died Nov. 19 after a brief battle with cancer.
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