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Longtime Jackson-based activist Stephanie Parker-Weaver has died received a national award for fighting two evils — civil rights abuses and breast

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Harold Gater, The Clarion-Ledger 12:23 p.m. CDT March 24, 2015

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Longtime Jackson-based activist Stephanie Parker-Weaver has died.

Parker-Weaver died Tuesday morning from congestive heart failure, according to a Facebook post.

Parker-Weaver was a Graves' disease and breast cancer survivor. She was in her 50s.

In 2008, she established the Rebirth Foundation to bring awareness about a protein - human epidermal growth factor receptor-2, better known as HER2 - that promotes growth of cancer cells.

She is a former secretary of the Mississippi Southern Christian Leadership Conference and was Special Projects Director during Jackson Mayor Frank Melton's administration.

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