We are sad to pass along the news that Nancy Hicks Maynard, an exceptional journalist and good friend of NLGJA, died Sunday, Sept. 21, in Los Angeles at age 61.
Nancy Hicks Maynard and her husband, the late Robert C. Maynard, owned the Oakland Tribune from 1983-92; they remain the only African Americans ever to own a major metropolitan newspaper in the United States. NLGJA's relationship with Nancy Hicks Maynard goes back to the organization's founding by Leroy Aarons, then a top editor at the Tribune under the Maynards. Aarons and the Maynards also founded the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education.
The Maynard Institute, based in Oakland, is directed by the Maynards' daughter, Dori Maynard.
Read The San Francisco Chronicle's obituary of Nancy Hicks Maynard.
