First black US Secretary of state dies of covid

Collin Powell, the first black person in US history books to fill the Secretary of State position has died of covid19.

The 84 year old four star general who last held public office in 2005 died on Monday according to the family statement posted of Facebook.

“He was fully vaccinated. We want to thank the medical staff at Walter Reed National Medical Center for their caring treatment”. The statement read in a quote form Aljazeera.

Powell was in top posts during the fall of the Berlin Wall, the 1989 US invasion of Panama, the 1991 Gulf War, the September 11 attacks, and the resulting US invasions of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003.

Powell was the son of Jamaican immigrants and grew up in the South Bronx neighbourhood of New York City. He attended City College of New York and earned an officer’s commission through the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) in 1958.

Source: Aljazeera