Florida Congressman Alcee Hastings, who dedicated his career to fighting for civil rights, died on Tuesday, according to the Orlando Sentinel. He was 84. Hastings, who was in his 15th term in Congress, was diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer in 2018, according to reports. He was in hospice care for the last few days. Before he was in Congress, Hastings was a civil rights attorney where he, alongside his law partner W. George Allen, filed a lawsuit against a restaurant that wouldn’t serve food to Black judges and lawyers as well as a suit to desegregate Broward County Schools, according to […]
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