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We offer our continued thoughts and prayers to the Maddox family.
Baruti Kopano and family
January 21, 2022 | Work


Washington, District of Columbia
GILBERT A. MADDOX, Ph.D (Age 82) Of Washington, DC passed away peacefully on Saturday, January 12, 2013. Beloved husband of Adelena Maddox; cherished step-father of Leslie Williams (Victor), Renee Strong-Terry, Victoria Syphax (Gregory) and Dulaine Harris. He is also survived by five...
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Baruti Kopano and family
January 21, 2022 | Work
"Profiles in Black," a television show hosted by Dr. Gil Maddox at Detroit television station WWJ-TV (now WDIV-TV) in the late 1960's and early 1970's. I had the good fortune to work on this show with Gil as a floor manager and as studio director. Gil was a smart man, a pioneer for blacks in broadcasting and he help me move forward in my journey in broadcasting. May God Bless Him and his family.
Joe Spencer
February 15, 2013

A friend, a mentor, an educator.
Marcella McCoy-Deh
February 05, 2013
TO THE FAMILY OF DR. GILBERT A. MADDOX:
On behalf of the faculty, administration, students and alumni of the Department of Communication Studies and the College of Liberal Arts at Morgan State University, we express our sincerest condolences on the passing of our long-time colleague and friend Dr. Gilbert A Maddox.
Dr. Maddox joined our faculty as an Associate Professor in 1986 and served as Chairperson of the Department of Speech Communications, later the Department of...
February 04, 2013

Gilbert A. Maddox, you shine through all you taught.
Janice Short
February 02, 2013
Dr. Maddox, I know that your passing was one of those "Vicissitudes of Life" that you always told us about. I am forever indebted to you for your confidence in me. You truly leave a legacy and that calm reporter's delivery voice will ring in my ears always. Soror Adelena, thank you and your family for sharing Dr. Maddox with Morgan State University for sooooo many years. Dr. Maddox, it was a pleasure to be your student and an HONOR to work as your colleague.
As the African proverb states,...
February 02, 2013

Heartfelt sympathy. He will be missed.
Cynthia Clemmons
February 01, 2013 | Morgan State University, MD
Dr. Maddox was a mentor and scholar to many and a gentleman to all. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family during this time of loss and reflection.
The Kopano Family
January 30, 2013