Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist William Raspberry loses battle to cancer

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist., William Raspberry. PHOTO/Julia Ewan/AP

William Raspberry, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post and one of the most widely read black journalists of his generation, died Tuesday. He was 76.

Raspberry, who had prostate cancer, died at his home in Washington, his wife, Sondra Raspberry, told The Post. A Post spokeswoman confirmed his death.

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Raspberry, who grew up

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