I saw her mentioned in the In Memoriam segment of This Week:

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Thomas A. Johnson, Pioneering Black Journalist, Dies at 79


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Born a slave before the Civil War, T. Thomas Fortune eventually became the leading black journalist of his time. He was a vigorous fighter who voiced some of the most militant ideas of the Reconstruction period. Among his accomplishments are the establisment of the New York Age, the nation's leading black newspaper at the end of the nineteenth ( Read more... )

Follow up to an earlier post about the Philippine-American War 1899-1914 ( Read more... )

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It feels like we are losing a lot of great writers, great thinkers, great leaders lately.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/30/national/30cruse.html?

Harold Cruse, Social Critic and Fervent Black Nationalist, Dies at 89
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