Las Vegas Sun

March 29, 2024

George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service and BlackPressUSA.com, sits in a classroom at Howard University in Washington on Sept. 9, 2005. Curry — a journalist, civil rights activist and publisher whose syndicated column ran in hundreds of black-owned newspapers around the United States — died suddenly Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016, at Washington Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park, Md. He was 69.

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George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service and BlackPressUSA.com, sits in a classroom at Howard University in Washington on Sept. 9, 2005. Curry — a journalist, civil rights activist and publisher whose syndicated column ran in hundreds of black-owned newspapers around the United States — died suddenly Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016, at Washington Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park, Md. He was 69.