To provide housing and other needed services, Suffolk and Nassau counties depend on contractors whose work is critical to ...

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman also issued a statement ordering flags to be lowered in her honor. "Our sincere condolences to the family of longtime Nassau resident Hazel Dukes. Hazel Dukes ...

The wake and funeral for civil rights activist and NAACP New York State Conference president Hazel N. Dukes, who died Saturday at age 92 in her Manhattan home, will be next Tuesday and Wednesday in ...

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Dr. Hazel Nell Dukes, a prominent civil rights activist and longtime president of the NAACP New York State Conference, has died at the age of 92. Her son released a statement Saturday morning ...

In light of her death, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman said that all flags in the county will be lowered to half-staff starting Monday until Dukes' burial as a "memorial to a great leader." ...

Dr. Hazel Dukes, an iconic civil rights leader and president of the NAACP New York State Conference, has died at 92, Rev. Al Sharpton says.

Hazel Dukes was a barrier breaker, a glass ceiling shatterer, and a leader for millions of New Yorkers and Americans,” State ...

Former NAACP New York State Conference president and longtime civil rights activist Hazel Dukes died at age 92, her family ...