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Irving Henry Webster Phillips Jr., The Baltimore Sun’s first Black news photographer, who shot Cal Ripken’s first home run and Johnny Unitas’ last game, as well as the 1968 riots, died Dec. 22 at Loch Raven VA Medical Center. He was 79.

Irving Henry Webster Phillips Jr., The Baltimore Sun’s first Black news photographer, who shot Cal Ripken’s first home run and Johnny Unitas’ last game, as well as the 1968 riots, died Dec. 22 at Loch Raven VA Medical Center. He was 79.

Mariana Thoms, a retired social worker who is the mother of actress Tracie Thoms and Austin Thoms, a disc jockey, died of dementia complications Dec. 19 at Sinai Hospital.