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African Studies Scholar Dies

African Studies Scholar Dies Philip D. Curtin, a leading but controversial scholar on the African slave trade, who is credited with pumping new life into African studies, has died. He was 87. Curtin, a MacArthur Foundation recipient and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, passed away June 4 of pneumonia at Chester County Hospital in West Chester, Pa. In addition to publishing more than a dozen books and helping found the Department of African Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Curtin sparked a firestorm with his research that questioned the importance of Goree Island, Senegal, which has become a major tourist draw as the “door of no return” where millions of Africans were shipped out as slaves.

Fayette Pinkey of the Philadelphia Girl Group Passes

Fayette Pinkney (January 10, 1948 - June 27, 2009) was an African American singer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was one  of the original members of the female soul group, The Three Degrees.