George E. Curry, a journalist, civil rights activist and publisher whose syndicated column ran in hundreds of black-owned newspapers around the United States, has died. AP correspondent Nicki Mayo reports.
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Prominent black journalist, publisher George Curry has died
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FILE – In this Friday, Sept. 9, 2005 file photo, George E. Curry, editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service and BlackPressUSA.com, sits in a classroom at Howard University in Washington. Curry, a journalist, civil rights activist and publisher whose syndicated column ran in hundreds of black-owned newspapers around the United States, has died. He was 69. Curry, of Laurel, Maryland, died suddenly on Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016, at Washington Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park, Maryland (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)
