BREAKING: Colin Powell — first Black US Secretary of State — dies
Colin Powell, a military leader and first Black Secretary of State in the United States, is dead.
Colin Powell was the first Black US secretary of state whose leadership in several Republican administrations helped shape American foreign policy in the last years of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st.
He died from complications from Covid-19, his family said on Facebook, aged 84.
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