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James Flournoy, pioneering black politician

LOS ANGELES — James Flournoy, the Republican candidate for California secretary of state in 1970 who was the first black person nominated by either major party for a partisan statewide office, has died. He was 93.

Flournoy died Feb. 21 of heart failure at his home in Moreno Valley, his....

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