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(Steve Ueckert/Houston Chronicle via AP, File) 

The image of Ruby from a Norman Rockwell painting has gotten renewed attention in a version that shows Vice President-elect Kamala Harris walking alongside Ruby

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Terry Charles Rawlins, August 14, 1948 - June 25, 2020 

Terry Rawlins passed away in Laurel Heights, San Francisco, June 25, 2020.

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This undated image shows singer Johnny Nash. (Houston Chronicle via AP) 

Nash was in his early 30s when “I Can See Clearly Now” topped the charts in 1972 and he had lived several show business lives.

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In this 1982, file photo, is Jim Weaver in Oregon. (The Register-Guard via AP) 

Weaver held the seat for Oregon’s 4th District from 1975 to 1987, during which he pushed for major environmental legislation and protections for wildlife in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest.

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Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Senate will vote on Trump’s pick to replace Ginsburg even though it is an election year

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December 22, 1948 - September 8, 2020

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The frontman of Toots & the Maytals gave the world classics such as Pressure Drop, Monkey Man and Funky Kingston

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In this Feb. 14, 2018 photo, actor Chadwick Boseman poses for a portrait in New York to promote his film, "Black Panther. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP, File) 

Tributes for Chadick Boseman who has died at just 43. The actor portrayed Jackie Robinson, James Brown, Thurgood Marshall and T’Challa, gracefully filling the screen with the dignity of Black lives

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In this April 28, 2012 file photo, former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain speaks during the annual Tax Cut Rally, sponsored by the Taxpayers League of Minnesota, at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Genevieve Ross, File) 

Cain, who had hoped to become the first Black politician to win the GOP nomination, has died of complications from the coronavirus.

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In this June 19, 2014, file photo, Civil Rights pioneer Rev. C.T. Vivian preaches during a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act in Knoxville, Tenn. (Paul Efird/Knoxville News Sentinel via AP) 

The Rev. C.T. Vivian, was an early and key adviser to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., organized pivotal civil rights campaigns and spent decades advocating for justice and equality

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