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Simeon Booker Jr., center, receiving an award at an annual event by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation in 2010.
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Simeon Booker
Died on December 10, 2017 at age 99
An award-winning journalist and author, Mr. Booker provided pioneering coverage of racial injustice and the civil rights struggle for readers of Jet and Ebony magazines and was The Washington Post’s first black reporter.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.