Daisey Bailey of Detroit, Michigan, the world’s oldest African American, died  at 114 years of age.  Bailey died of organ failure Sunday at Henry Ford Hospital. The Detroit resident was the fifth oldest person in the world and the oldest living black person as certified by the Gerontology Research Group, which tracks people who are 100 years and older. She would have turned 115 March 30, said her granddaughter Helen Arnold. Bailey’s secret to long life was Bourboun and veggies. She left behind 79 grandchildren, 70 great-grandchildren, 30 great-great grandchildren, and 69 great-great-great grandchildren.

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