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By Bruce Weber / The Bulletin
June 1, 2011
Abdias do Nascimento, a Brazilian writer, painter, politician and scholar who was an outspoken civil rights leader on behalf of black Brazilians, has died in Rio de Janeiro. He was 97.
Sources differ on the date of death, saying it was either May 23 or 24. The cause was complications of....