Marcia Slacum Greene, 57, a tenacious Washington Post editor and reporter whose assignments included politics, housing and social services and who saw journalism as a way to humanize and illuminate the lives of the marginalized and voiceless, died Jan. 4 at her home in Washington. She had complications from pancreatic cancer.

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Mrs. Slacum Greene spent 26 years at The Post before retiring in July as city editor. She had earlier been assistant District editor for politics and government, where she helped

oversee the paper’s award-winning series about the discovery of excessive levels of lead in the city’s water supply. She also had been a reporter on the Metro projects team, a unit that focused on long-term investigative or in-depth explanatory topics.

In 2002, she was the first to get an extensive interview with Mildred Muhammad, who explained during a four-hour conversation how her ex-husband, sniper John Allen Muhammad, transformed “from a loving husband to an angry, controlling man.”

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