These covers reflect some of the issues Emerge magazine tackled while Mr. Curry served as editor-in-chief from 1993 to 2000. Above, the May 1996 cover features the groundbreaking story on Henrico County native Kemba Smith and the long, unfair prison sentences meted out in crack cocaine cases, even for those who were minor players. Left, the November 1996 edition of the magazine launches an attack on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for seeking to roll back civil rights gains.
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Crusading journalist George E. Curry dies at 69
George E. Curry, a pioneering journalist and publisher whose civil rights advocacy helped free a Henrico County woman from federal prison while calling national attention to the disparity in federal drug sentences for African-Americans, died Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016, at a Takoma Park, Md., hospital.
