Published 18 October 2021
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Colin Powell in White House Rose Garden in 1989.Cynthia Johnson / Getty Images file
His family said that the retired four-star general died from Covid-19 complications. He was fully vaccinated against the disease.
WASHINGTON — Colin Powell, the retired four-star general who became the country’s first Black secretary of state and chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, died Monday due to complications from Covid-19, his family said in a statement on Facebook.
