Human Race

DIED: Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa, who won Western praise for tackling corruption and pushing pro-growth economic policies in Africa, died Aug. 19 of complications from a stroke. Mwanawasa, 59, said his conversion to Christianity in 2003 guided his years in office. Friend and mentor Paige Patterson, president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, called Mwanawasa "a man more determined to right wrongs, root out corruption and injustice, and produce a noble nation."

DIED: Democratic Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress, died Aug. 20. The 58-year-old, who backed Sen. Hillary Clinton during the primaries, planned to vote as a superdelegate at the Democratic convention.