Julian Bond, a charismatic Civil Rights icon and former NAACP chairman, is dead at 75, President Obama lauds Bond as a 'hero,' Bond was also a former Georgia lawmaker and a Morehouse College graduate....By Editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news www.clevelandurbannews.com
Julian Bond By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under five different editors, at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) / ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) FORT WALTON BEACH, Florida — Longtime former NAACP chairman and charismatic Civil Rights icon Julian Bond died Saturday night in Fort Walton, Florida after a brief illness. He was 75. President Barack Obama, America's first Black president, lauded Bond, a community activists prominent figure of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, as a friend to the first family, and a "hero." "Justice and equality was the mission that spanned his life," said