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

Howard University Professor Kiah Duggins passed away on January 30th. In a statement released by Howard University and Howard University School of Law, she was among those lost in the mid-air plane collision at Reagan National Airport.

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

Tina Knowles expressed her condolences after Howard University law professor Kiah Duggins was among the victims in the American Airlines crash

The fight for justice does not end with Kiah Duggins. Friends, family, and supporters are coming together to carry on the mission of the Harvard-trained civil rights attorney and incoming professor who was among the 67 on board the American Airlines plane that crashed over DC.

Civil rights attorney Kiah Duggins was among the 64 passengers and crew on the American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, to Washington, D.C., that plunged into the Potomac River Wednesday evening after colliding with a military helicopter.

Wednesday's tragic Washington DC plane crash of a commercial flight and helicopter. claimed the life of Kiah Duggins, a future HBCU professor at Howard University. Duggins, a former Miss Kansas contestant, was among the casualties of a collision between the airliner and a Black Hawk Helicopter near Reagan Airport on Wednesday.

A woman who made a name for herself in Wichita and was in the process of doing the same thing in Washington was on the plane that crashed in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. Kiah Duggins was a civil rights attorney who worked with a legal group in D.