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Written by HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer

Published: 24 May 2023

Tina Turner, Pop and R&B vocalist, as holds up a Grammy Award, Feb. 27, 1985, in Los Angeles. Turner, the unstoppable singer and stage performer, died Tuesday, after a long illness at her home in Küsnacht near Zurich, Switzerland, according to her manager. She was 83 (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File) 

Tina Turner was known for such songs as “Proud Mary,” “River Deep, Mountain High” and “We Don’t Need Another Hero.” Her trademarks were her growling contralto, her bold smile and strong cheekbones, her palette of wigs and her muscular, quick-stepping legs.

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Written by TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer

Published: 20 May 2023

 

Brown shattered records during a relatively short NFL career, leading the Cleveland Browns to their last championship in 1964, appeared in more than 30 films, and was a prominent leader in the Black power movement of the 1960s

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Published: 10 May 2023

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Grace Bumbry, a pioneering mezzo-soprano who became the first Black singer to perform at Germany's Bayreuth Festival during a career of more than three decades on the world's top stages, has died

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Published: 27 April 2023

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Jerry Springer, the onetime mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show featured a three-ring circus of dysfunctional families willing to bare all on weekday afternoons including brawls, obscenities and blurred images of nudity, died Thursday at 79.

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Published: 25 April 2023

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Belafonte died Tuesday of congestive heart failure at his New York home, his wife Pamela by his side

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Published: 17 April 2023

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Bradbury established Oregon’s vote-by-mail system, advocated for environmental issues and ran for governor, all while battling multiple sclerosis for more than 40 years.

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Published: 24 March 2023

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Walter C. Cole, better known as the iconic drag queen who performed for decades as Darcelle XV, has died of natural causes. Cole was 92.

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Published: 13 March 2023

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Wallace Hicks Jr. passed away peacefully on March 3, 2023. Most if his friends knew him as "Joseph the Barber," but he was fondly known as "Junie" by his family

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Published: 30 January 2023

Willie Richardson, December 20, 1948 – January 25, 2023 (Photo taken in 2019 by Erich McVey) 

Richardson was the first Black member of the Salem-Keizer school board.

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Published: 20 January 2023

Jeanette Lejune Plummer, February 11, 1921 – January 13, 2023 

Jeanette Lejune Plummer was born February 11, 1921 to Ernest M. and Helen Jeanette