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FAMU grad named editor of Lakeland Ledger – Florida Courier

Leon Tucker, a 1998 Florida A&M University journalism grad, has been named executive editor of the Lakeland Ledger Newspaper, in Lakeland. Tucker is the first Black person to hold that position in the newspaper’s 97-year history. “Leon is coming home,” said Cindy McCurry-Ross, Gannett Florida Editor, noting that Tucker grew up in St. Petersburg and […]

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