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Inspiring Youth to Reachtheir Highest Potential With a heavy heart the Rosa Parks Scholarship Foundation extends our deepest condolences to the family of Luther Badman Keith a blues musician former reporter columnist and editor at The Detroit News executive director of ARISE Detroit and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Rosa Parks Scholarship Foundation. He passed away Wednesday night at the age of 74. Luther was the soul of our board and remarkably of so many other informal and formal gatherings of people. Such an extremely kind man who walked the talk when it came to true deep dive service for our community says board president James Rosenfeld.