Yet another loss. Read below.

  FYI-----This was sent from AABJ yesterday.

  Deidre



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  From: Deborah Simon [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 3:07 PM
Subject: FW: notable passings


  Dear Members,


    It was been a year for losses. Earlier this month we lost Ed Bradley. But since then two notable print journalists have passed away.



    Gerald M. Boyd, the only black journalist to rise to the highest newsroom ranks at the New York Times, died on Thanksgiving at his New York home after battling lung cancer, his wife, journalist Robin D. Stone, told Journal-isms.

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  "He was at home with his family," she said.
  Boyd, 56, stepped down as managing editor on June 5, 2003, with the paper's executive editor, Howell Raines, in the wake of the scandal involving Jayson Blair, the reporter whose extensive fabrications "laid bare deep discontent within the staff over their leadership," as the Times reported at the time.
  His wife said Boyd "should be remembered for his contributions to journalism, to the people who worked in the field, to diversity in journalism and to humanity."



    Journalist-turned-novelist Bebe Moore Campbell, who was diagnosed with a neurological condition earlier this year, died peacefully at home at 12:15 a.m. Pacific time Monday, her publicist, Linda Wharton Boyd, told Journal-isms. She was 56.
  Campbell had written for the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Essence, Ebony and Black Enterprise and had been a regular commentator for National Public Radio's "Morning Edition." Her novels include "Brothers and Sisters," "Singing in the Comeback Choir" and "Your Blues Ain't Like Mine."
  "In 'Your Blues Ain't Like Mine,' her first novel, Campbell's ability to delve into the minds of multifarious characters and relate their truths was riveting. She also demonstrated her uncanny adroitness at helping readers sort through their own heated feelings about race while considering opposing views. Campbell so skillfully navigated this same risky ground with her second novel, 'Brothers and Sisters,' that it is now a text for several college race-relations courses," Patricia Elam wrote in a 1998 review in the Washington Post.



    Ray Metoyer

    AABJ President





Anita Fleming-Rife

  I lift up mine eyes from whence cometh my help. . . .



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