Kiah Duggins, a soon-to-be Howard University law professor, died in the mid-air crash near Reagan National Airport. Details emerge.

"Kiah believed in radical love, unwavering truth, and the fight for a better world," family member Aisha Duggins said. The Wichita native was 30.

An aspiring HBCU professor and civil rights attorney named Kiah Duggins has been identified as one of the victims of the mid-air collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an army Black

Family and colleagues honor the legacies of Duggins, a Harvard-trained attorney and soon-to-be law professor, and Elder, a devoted mother and flight attendant.

The Harvard Law graduate and civil rights attorney was set to become a professor at Howard University Law School this fall.

Harvard Law School shared a series of tributes to Kiah Duggins, a victim of the Jan. 29 plane crash in Washington, D.C. Duggins, 30, was a civil rights attorney, a former Miss Kansas contestant and an incoming Howard University professor.

A Harvard Law School alum known for her pro bono legal work was one of the 67 people who died Wednesday when an airliner collided with a military helicopter in Washington, D.C. , was set to join the teaching staff at Howard University School of Law in the fall, the school said in a Facebook post. She graduated from the school in 2021.

There's a story about Figure skater Jon Maravilla missing the flight from Wichita, Kansas to Washington DC that ultimately crashed into a helicopter and into the Potomac River, in which the size of Maravilla's dog was the reason he missed the flight.

Howard University law professor Kiah Duggins was among 64 victims of the American Airlines crash near Reagan Airport.

Kiah Duggins was returning from visiting her mother, who was undergoing surgery in Kansas, when the civil rights attorney was killed in a plane crash in Washington, D.C this week.