Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a pioneering Black feminist, has died at age 84. Hughes, who is also remembered as a tireless child welfare advocate and lifelong community activist, died on Dec. 1 in Tampa, Florida, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, the Associated Press reports. According to Hughes’ daughter, Delethia Ridley Malmsten, the beloved activist died due to old age. Hughes “passed away peacefully … at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Delethia and Jonas Malmsten,” the Sconiers Funeral Home in Columbus, Georgia stated in an obituary.
