Funeral for Gwen Ifill Draws Thousands of Mourners in Washington.
'When former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. learned he would be sitting down for an interview with Gwen Ifill, he prematurely breathed a sigh of relief, thinking about the down-to-earth woman he had befriended through house parties and family barbecues.
“She wasn’t Gwen the national figure, but Gwen the sistah, S-I-S-T-A-H,” he said. “The sistah with fascinating stories, with funny jokes and juicy off-the-record observations better known as gossip.”
The two had bonded over their shared connection to Barbados and took to calling each other “cuz,” imagining they might be distant cousins through ancestors on the Caribbean island. But moments into their interview, Mr. Holder, still early in his tenure as attorney general, realized the fun-loving woman from the weekends had “transformed.”
“My dear Gwen, unexpectedly to me, went from ‘cuz’ to newsperson,” Mr. Holder said. “She was fair but she was piercing, serious but unfailingly nice, smiling the whole time as she forced me out of my prescribed talking points.”'>>>
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