Marion Barry, Civil Rights Leader, Second D.C. Mayor, Dies at 78
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Marion Barry, the civil-rights leader who became a polarizing political figure during two spans as mayor of Washington, D.C., separated by a prison sentence for drug possession, has died. He was 78.
He died yesterday at United Medical Center in Washington, less than a day after he was released from Howard University Hospital, his family said in a statement, according to the Associated Press.