Every day, Legacy publishes tributes to people from all walks of life. Here in our daily news section, we say goodbye to those headline names known across the nation.
He was the band’s guitarist during their hitmaking years.
News Obituaries
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Dukes was head of the NAACP’s New York state conference for almost 50 years.
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She was in the pioneering rap trio The Sequence.
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Johansen also performed as Buster Poindexter, who had a 1987 hit with “Hot, Hot, Hot.”
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Spassky lost to Bobby Fischer in the so-called “Match of the Century” in 1972.
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He won another Oscar for Unforgiven and was nominated three more times.
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Dr. Poussaint’s research probed how systemic racism impacts Black Americans.
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She starred in the movie “Harriet the Spy.”
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He co-created TV’s “Fringe” and “Sleepy Hollow.”
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John also topped charts in 1972 with his cover of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”