state senator, Louis G. Hill, for the party's nomination. Hill was counting on support from the city's Black population to beat Rizzo. Kenyatta did not support Hill and ran for the Democratic nomination himself. The Philadelphia media paid a great deal of attention to his candidacy, in part because he had just completed a highly publicized citizens' campaign against the Black Mafia drug ring in the city. Although Kenyatta said he entered the race because he did not think Hill was any better than Rizzo, critics have accused him of deliberately splitting the Black vote so Rizzo would win. Kenyatta denied that he made any deals with Rizzo in exchange for his protest candidacy, however the charges of collusion were supported by the fact that two of his close friends were appointed patronage positions in the Rizzo administration. International work Kenyatta was vice chairman of the Pan African Skills Project, an international education program including the United States, Tanzania and Ghana, and was a permanent representative to the United Nations nongovernmental organizations section. He helped to organize the Western New York Chapter of TransAfrica, a Washington-based lobbying group for African and Caribbean interests. Death Kenyatta was a visiting professor at the University at Buffalo School of Law from 1988 until his death on January 3, 1992, at age 47. He had long been in ill health, said university officials, who added that the professor had suffered complications from diabetes and was hospitalized at the time of his death. Personal life Kenyatta was married to Mary Kenyatta and together had a daughter and two sons. Kenyatta's grandson, Malcolm Kenyatta, is an active community and LGBT advocate in Philadelphia, and won election to District 181 of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 2018. He was a candidate in the 2022 Democratic primary for Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring U.S. Senator Pat Toomey. References 1944 births 1992 deaths African-American activists Activists for African-American civil rights African-American Baptist ministers COINTELPRO targets Harvard Law School alumni Harvard Divinity School alumni People from Chester, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Democrats Politicians from Philadelphia Williams College alumni 20th-century Baptist ministers from the United States