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2005 Passings

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Les Brownlee, first black on-air reporter for WLS-TV
Brownlee worked in recent years as a journalism professor at Columbia College where he taught urban affairs reporting and other classes. The college named him professor emeritus after his retirement last year and Nielsen funded a lecture series in Brownlee's name. Journalist and college professor .



Mackie J. McLeod
Mackie J. McLeod III, 57, a political activist, anti-apartheid advocate and journalist who covered Africa and African American affairs, died in Washington.

LeRoy Whitfield
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Whitfield, a journalist who explored the AIDS epidemic among African Americans and who refused drugs for his own HIV infection, died. He was 36.

Therman Toon

Akilah Amapindi, 1981-2005

Edna Chappelle McKenzie

Benjamin Thomas, 1910-2005

Norman Lockman, 1938-2005

Mattiebelle Woods, 1902-2005

Warner Williams, 1971-2005



















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