Les Payne, a Journalist famous for writing about racial injustice, died at age 76 from a heart attack. Les first started being a Journalist for a Newspaper for Long Island. He exposed racial injustice anywhere he could find it. Les was also recruited to work at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism since he was " a Founding member and former president of the National Association of Black Journalists." The strong, brave, and intelligent man not only wrote about these racial injustices but wrote about them in a newspaper given to primarily white people which forced them to deal and solve these things.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/20/obituaries/les-payne-journalist-who-exposed-racial-injustice-dies-at-76.html
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