Acel Moore, 75, an Inquirer reporter, editor, and columnist who changed the way the newspaper and others cover the black community while encouraging young people from minority backgrounds to enter and succeed in the profession he loved, died unexpectedly at his Wyncote home Friday evening.
Mr. Moore suffered from "a number of different ailments," his wife, Linda Wright Moore, said. Shortly before midnight "he was having serious difficulty breathing and his heart stopped."
A tall man with a neat goatee and a manner at once open and reserved, Mr. Moore was associate editor emeritus of The Inquirer, rising up from the ranks of news clerks and copy boys over a career at the paper spanning 43 years.
During that time he won some of journalism's most glittering honors, including a Pulitzer Prize and a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University.
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