Marcia Ann Gillespie, the pioneering editor who led Essence through its formative years and later became the first Black woman to run Ms. magazine, has died at 82, according to her colleagues. Her death, reported Oct. 31 by Essence and journalist Phil Lewis, comes less than two months after the death of Gloria Steinem, her […]

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