Local officials and community activists joined to honor the life of civil rights leader Roscoe Nix Thursday.
The 90-year-old Nix died Jan. 4 of aspiration pneumonia in Riverdale, Ga. His funeral was held Thursday at Church of the Redeemer in Northeast D.C., followed by a burial at Parklawn Memorial Park in Rockville.
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