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Colin Powell, in full Colin Luther Powell, (born April 5, 1937, New York, New York, U.S.—died October 18, 2021, Bethesda, Maryland), U.S. general and statesman. He was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989–93) and secretary of state (2001–05), the first African American to hold either position. The son of Jamaican immigrants, Powell grew up in the Harlem and South Bronx sections of New York City and attended the City College of New York (B.S., 1958), serving in the Reserve ...

Who Was Colin Powell? Colin Luther Powell was a United States statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State...

Colin Powell, the first Black US secretary of state whose leadership in several Republican administrations helped shape American foreign policy in the last years of the 20th century and the early...

Colin Luther Powell was born on April 5, 1937, in Harlem, New York. The son of Jamaican immigrants Luther and Maud Powell, Colin was raised in the South Bronx and educated in the New York...

Colin Powell, the first Black US secretary of state, has died. He was 84. He died from complications from Covid-19, his family said on Facebook. Powell also had multiple myeloma, a cancer of...

WASHINGTON — Colin Powell, the retired four-star general who became the country's first Black secretary of state and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, died Monday due to complications from...

Colin L. Powell, who in four decades of public life served as the nation’s top soldier, diplomat and national security adviser, and whose speech at the United Nations in 2003 helped pave the...

Retired General Colin Powell was the honorary pace car driver for the 2005 Indy 500. (Jim McIsaac/Getty Images) He also liked the Corvette and bought a gray 2007 model that was replaced by a...