Ivy Young, D.C. journalist, poet, and activist, dies at 75
Ivy Joan Young passed away on April 24, 2023, at the age of 75. She was born to Dorothy Elizabeth (Lewis) Young and Joseph Henry Young on Dec.
23, 1947, in Washington, D.C. Both parents and her younger brother Ronald Alexander Young, Esq. preceded her in death. Resistance framed her political activism and her life in service of justice, fairness, decency, egalitarianism, feminism, honor, principle, authenticity—all of which were among her core values.
From the time she graduated Eastern High School in her native D.C. until her health declined, Young stood as a voice and advocate for a better human existence for all.
Young contributed her time and talent to community building for social justice on an international scale. She worked at VISTA in Chicago, the Center for Black Education and Drum and Spear Book Store, in D.C., the Venceremos Brigade in Cuba, Astraea National Lesbian Action Foundation in New York, the 1974 Sixth Pan African Congress hosted in Tanzania East Africa, and the Southern Africa Support Project that stood against the oppressive apartheid system in that region.
