Comedian, Civil Rights Activist Dick Gregory Dies

By DAISY NGUYEN Associated Press, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Entertainment
Sat, 08/19/2017 - 9:02pm

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dick Gregory, the comedian and activist and who broke racial barriers in the 1960s and used his humor to spread messages of social justice and nutritional health, has died. He was 84.

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