Memorial Highlights Contributions of Melvin Deal

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Memorial Highlights Contributions of Melvin Deal

A line of African drummers on Saturday led a procession for Baba Melvin Deal to Union Temple Baptist Church In southeast D.C., where he was officially named as one of the ancestors by leaders of a cultural community that loved him so much.

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