RIP: Journalist, Diplomat John H. Hicks
Hired in 1949 as the St. Louis Post-Distpach's first black reporter.
John H. Hicks, hired in 1949 as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s first black reporter, already had at that early career stage another future mark of distinction. As a member of the band at East St. Louis Lincoln High School, where he had played tuba, he got to jam with a guy on trumpet named Miles Davis.
Hicks, 85, died earlier this month in Washington, D.C., where he had retired. His death follows the passing last November of one of his sons, Jonathan P.
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