Former NY Urban League President Darwin Davis funeralized in Harlem

Sign up for our acclaimed free weekday newsletter Editorially Black

Get the top Racial Equity stories of the day from America’s most influential oldest continuously published Black newspaper, serving the nation’s largest Black and brown community. Sign up to stay connected.

Darwin Davis, the former president of the New York Urban League, passed away on September 25, 2022. The former activist and nation-building Pan Africanist who also went by the name Kamau, was born in Maryland, but grew up and worked in the New York area, until he passed away in his home in New Jersey. His viewing and funeral was held on Wednesday, October 12, at Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church. A memorial is scheduled for the Schomburg Center in a couple of weeks. The Amsterdam News will bring full coverage at that time.