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TODAY’S OBITUARY NEWS
Ferlinghetti was known for poetry including “A Coney Island of the Mind.”
Burke formed the Five Stairsteps along with his brothers and sister.
He co-founded the acclaimed Negro Ensemble Company.
U-Roy was the first to record the new musical style of toasting.
Ortiz founded the Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International.
He installed the sculpture illegally, in the middle of the night.
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