Racial justice journalism since 1909. Electeds, family, and friends of Dr. Hazel N. Dukes filled Mother African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church on Wednesday morning to pay their final respec ...

Dukes, who died Saturday at age 92 in her Manhattan home, will be next Tuesday and Wednesday in Harlem, officials said. Dukes spent most of her life combating racial inequities nationally and on ...

Hazel Nell Dukes, civil rights activist and president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) New York State Conference, has died at the age of 92. She had ...

Hazel Dukes, a prominent civil rights advocate and president of the NAACP New York State Conference, died Saturday. She was 92. Dukes died peacefully at her home in New York City surrounded by ...

Hazel N. Dukes, a trailblazing civil rights activist and longtime Long Islander, died Saturday at her home in Manhattan, according to the NAACP New York State Conference. She was 92. Dukes spent ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Members of the Staten Island Black community are mourning the death of Hazel Nell Dukes, longtime champion of civil rights. Dukes, who served as national president of the ...

Hazel Dukes, former president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and a prominent figure in the civil rights movement, died at the age of 92 on Saturday.

Hazel Dukes, the president of the New York State chapter of the NAACP and lifelong civil rights advocate, died Saturday at the age of 92. Dukes peacefully passed away in her New York City home ...

Dr. Hazel Dukes, an iconic civil rights leader and president of the NAACP New York State Conference, has died at age 92. Dukes died peacefully Saturday morning, Ronald Dukes, her son, said in a ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. New York NAACP President Hazel Dukes speaks during the New York State Democratic Convention in New York, Feb ...

At the time of her death, Dukes was still the president of the NAACP New York State Conference. Hazel Dukes, a New York City and national civil rights leader died during the early morning hours of ...