IN MEMORIAM: Jerome Wright, TSD Deputy Editor and beloved journalist, dead at 74

I was expecting to be interviewed Tuesday by veteran journalist Jerome Wright when I got a telephone call about him. Specifically, the Tri-State Defender’s deputy editor had died. He was 74. The caller was Wright’s wife, Gwendolyn. Her husband had died while on the treadmill the night before. I gasped and lost my grip for […]