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August 16, 2010

Singer, Civil Rights Activist Abbey Lincoln, 80, Dies
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And the jazz singer, songwriter, actress and civil rights activist Abbey
Lincoln has died at the age of eighty. In 1960, she and her then-husband
Max Roach released the "We Insist! Freedom Now Suite." The recording
became a landmark musical statement of the civil rights movement.
Lincoln later said the political nature of the recording might have hurt
her career. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal in 2007, she
said, "We all paid a price, but it was important to say something. It
still is."



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