Archive for December 26th, 2021

MOTOWN’S MARVELETTES MEMBER IS DEAD

NEW YORK - CIRCA 1965: Motown singing group The Marvelettes (L-R Katherine Anderson, Wanda Young (Rogers)and Gladys Horton) pose for a portrait circa 1965 in New York City, New York. (Photo by James Kriegsmann/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Wanda Young (Image Source: Instagram)
Wanda LaFaye Young (Rogers)
(August 9, 1943 – December 15, 2021),

(FoxNews) – Wanda Young, best known as a member of Motown’s
popular and chart-topping The Marvelettes, has died. She was 78.

Meta Ventress, Young’s daughter, told the New York Times that
her mother died on Dec. 15 in Garden City, Mich. She
told the
outlet
that the cause of the singers death had to do with
complications due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

 

 

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DESMOND TUTU HAS DIED AT 90

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Desmond Mpilo Tutu (7 October 1931 – 26 December 2021)


JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Desmond Tutu,
South Africa’s Nobel
Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights
and retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has died. South
African President Cyril Ramaphosa made the announcement 
Sunday.


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THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS BY NORMAN ROCKWELL.
   

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