Family and colleagues honor the legacies of Duggins, a Harvard-trained attorney and soon-to-be law professor, and Elder, a devoted mother and flight attendant.

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

An aspiring HBCU professor and civil rights attorney named Kiah Duggins has been identified as one of the victims of the mid-air collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an army Black

There's a story about Figure skater Jon Maravilla missing the flight from Wichita, Kansas to Washington DC that ultimately crashed into a helicopter and into the Potomac River, in which the size of Maravilla's dog was the reason he missed the flight.

Harvard Law School shared a series of tributes to Kiah Duggins, a victim of the Jan. 29 plane crash in Washington, D.C. Duggins, 30, was a civil rights attorney, a former Miss Kansas contestant and an incoming Howard University professor.

The Harvard Law graduate and civil rights attorney was set to become a professor at Howard University Law School this fall.

Howard University law professor Kiah Duggins was among 64 victims of the American Airlines crash near Reagan Airport.

Kiah Duggins was returning from visiting her mother, who was undergoing surgery in Kansas, when the civil rights attorney was killed in a plane crash in Washington, D.C this week.

She was a civil rights attorney, once worked as a policy intern in the White House for first lady Michelle Obama and competed twice in the Miss Kansas pageant. Kiah Duggins seemingly could do it all.