Tributes Pour In For Bonnie Pointer, The Heart And Soul Of The Pointer Sisters, Dead At 69

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Tributes Pour In For Bonnie Pointer, The Heart And Soul Of The Pointer Sisters, Dead At 69

Bonnie Pointer, 69, who co-founded The Pointer Sisters in the late 1960's with her sister June, died on Monday from cardiac arrest.

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Flip Wilson was an American Comedian and Actor who was extremely famous due to his own weekly series, “The Flip Wilson Show”. Wilson was one of the first African-Americans to not only have a title show of his own, but one that primarily had a white audience. Wilson was featured on Time

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