Luther Keith, an inductee of the 1995 Michigan Journalism Class, passed away on March 5, 2025.
Former Detroit News managing editor and blues musician Luther “Badman” Keith was the first African American sports reporter at a major Detroit daily (1973), the first African American assigned to cover the state capitol (1979) and the first African American newsroom editor at The Detroit News (1982). In 2006, he founded and served as executive director of ARISE Detroit!