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Leading Black Journalist Dies

Robert (Bob) Munroe Ellison, 67, the only African-American journalist ever to serve as president of the prestigious White House Correspondents Association, died May 24 at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., while being treated for a respiratory illness. Bob Ellison was born on Sept. 22, 1942, in New York City, N.Y. He grew up in […]

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