Helena Hicks was widely known as a lead organizer of Morgan State University students who participated in lunch counter sit-ins that desegregated Read’s Drug Stores in 1955. She died this month at age 88.

Shani Mott, a scholar of Africana studies at the Johns Hopkins University, died in March. A celebration to commemorate her life will be held Sunday.

Qayum Karzai, the owner of The Helmand restaurant and brother of a former president of Afghanistan, died Thursday. Karzai, who lived in Glenwood, was 77.