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Lerone Bennett Jr., executive editor of Ebony magazine, where he worked for 52 years, and arguably the 20th century’s foremost African American “people’s historian,” died peacefully in his sleep Wednesday in his Chicago home, a daughter, Joy Bennett, told Richard Prince’s Journal-isms. Bennett was 89 and died of advanced vascular dementia, she said. “He has authored books and […]
