One of our legends has passed and now united with the true kings of Comedy and leaders of the black power movement yesterday night.
Dick Gregory, the pioneering black satirist who transformed cool humor into a barbed force for civil rights in the 1960s, then veered from his craft for a life devoted to protest and fasting in the name of assorted social causes, health regimens and conspiracy theories, died Saturday in Washington. He was 84. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/19/arts/dick-gregory-dies-at-84.html Dick Gregory, 84, Dies; Found Humor in the Civil Rights Struggle