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Colin Powell, First Black US Secretary of State and Top Military Officer, Dies


Colin Powell, First Black US Secretary of State and Top Military Officer, Dies
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Colin Powell, the first Black U.S. secretary of state and top military officer, died on Monday at the age of 84 from complications due to COVID-19. His family wrote in a statement on Facebook he was fully vaccinated, and that they had "lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American." VOA Pentagon correspondent Carla Babb shares more on Powell's legacy.

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