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Simeon Booker Author

Simeon Booker (1918-2017) was an award-winning journalist and the first black staff reporter for the Washington Post. He served as Jet's Washington bureau chief for fifty-one years, retiring in 2007 at the age of eighty-eight.

Carol McCabe Booker, Washington, D.C., is an attorney and former journalist. And, she is married to Simeon Booker.