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Lew Perkins, who also was the athletic director at Wichita State, had suffered from a bout with Parkinson’s Disease.

Jon Wefald was president of Kansas State University for more than two decades. He left a lasting impact on the state, including via K-State football.

Jon Wefald, who spent 23 years as president of Kansas State University, has died, KSU President Richard Linton announced Saturday on Facebook.

Valerie Boyd, who wrote a landmark biography of novelist Zora Neale Hurston and later, as a creative writing professor at the University of Georgia, h

In addition to writing an acclaimed biography, she encouraged a generation of young writers, predominantly women of color, to pursue careers in nonfiction.