Claver organization elects youngest supreme knight
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NEW ORLEANS — F. De-Karlos Blackmon, 34, of Huntsville, Ala., has been elected the youngest supreme knight and CEO in the history of the century-old Knights of Peter Claver.
Running on a platform of unity and progressive change, Blackmon was elected to the post during the national convention of the nation's only African-American Catholic fraternal organization and the world's largest black Catholic lay organization.
The convention, held in early August, drew more than 1,000 members from around the country to St. Louis' Millennium Hotel.
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