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Former President Barack Obama called Colin Powell an 'exemplary soldier and an exemplary patriot' in a statement shared on social media.

Humility, so much at the core of Colin Powell, the son of Jamaican immigrants and graduate of a City College of New York, was job one.

...and to his everlasting credit, he admitted it. America and the world need leaders like him more than ever.

In 2009, I was nominated to be the 16th supreme allied commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. While I had already served three years heading one of the military’s 11 combatant commands — U.S. Southern Command, focused on Latin America — this new job would be jumping into the

Colin Powell, the first Black U.S. secretary of state whose leadership in several Republican administrations helped shape American foreign policy in the last years of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, has died.

Doctors say Colin Powells age, his battle with multiple myeloma - a type of blood cancer - and Parkinsons contributed to his heightened risk of death from Covid despite being fully vaccinated.

Colin Powell is dead at the age of 84 from complications due to COVID. Powell was the first Black Secretary of State and a General in the US

Colin Powell, the first Black U.S. secretary of state whose leadership in several Republican administrations helped shape American foreign policy in the last years of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, has died.

Colin Powell - the first Black Secretary of State and General of the US Army has died of COVID complications at 84 years old.

I first met Colin Powell, who died Monday, in the Pentagon in the early years of the Reagan Administration.