DURHAM - Miss. London Amari Carniece Powers, age 20, passed away Monday, August 11, 2025 at Duke University Hospital.

A celebration of life service will be held Friday, August 29, 2025 at 1 p.m. on the campus of North Carolina Central University, 500 Nelson Street, Durham, NC.

London was junior social work major at North Carolina Central University.

A native of Washington, D.C., London was a dedicated member of the University Honors program with aspirations to earn her Master of Social Work degree, focusing on adolescent and mental health. She was actively engaged in campus life and had recently been elected event coordinator for the NCCU Social Work Society for the 2025-26 academic year. She was also preparing to begin her internship at the Durham Center for Senior Life, a role that reflected her passion for serving others.

London's professors and peers will remember her as a vibrant, hard-working and supportive student who poured her heart into her social work cohort.

Service by McLaurin-Harris