CNN reports:
Colin Powell, the first Black US secretary of state whose leadership in several Republican administrations helped shape American foreign policy in the last years of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, has died from complications from Covid-19, his family said on Facebook. He was 84.
“General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away this morning due to complications from Covid 19,” the Powell family wrote on Facebook.
“We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American,” they said, noting he was fully vaccinated.
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Colin Powell dies at age 84.
‘General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away this morning due to complications from Covid 19. He was fully vaccinated,” his family says in a statement https://t.co/9iw8j8Zweb— Manu Raju (@mkraju) October 18, 2021
Breaking: Colin Powell, the first Black US secretary of state whose leadership in several Republican administrations helped shape American foreign policy for years, has died from complications from covid, his family said on Facebook. He was 84 years old.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) October 18, 2021
BREAKING: Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has died from COVID complications. He was 84 years old. https://t.co/OMcvRIYnpV pic.twitter.com/WobmBfljw6
— ABC News (@ABC) October 18, 2021