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Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died …

FILE - Richard Roundtree attends the premiere of "Shaft" on June 10, 2019, in New York. Roundtree, the trailblazing Black actor who starred as the ultra-smooth private detective "Shaft" in several films beginning in the early 1970s, has died. Roundtree died Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023, at his home in Los Angeles, according to his longtime manager. He was 81. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

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Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ is No. 1 at the box office with …

This image released by Parkwood Entertainment shows promotional art for "Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé." (Parkwood Entertainment via AP)

Review: The long Kiss goodbye ends at New York’s Madison …

Gene Simmons, left, Tommy Thayer, and Paul Stanley of KISS perform during the final night of the "Kiss Farewell Tour" on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, at Madison Square Garden in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

It’s Kennedy Center Honors time for a crop including Queen …

2023 Kennedy Center Honoree singer Dionne Warwick arrives on the red carpet at the State Department for the Kennedy Center Honors gala dinner, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Barbie doll honoring Cherokee Nation leader is met with …

FILE - In 1985 Wilma Mankiller became Chief of the Cherokee Nation after Chief Ross Swimmer resigned to head the Bureau of Indian Affairs under President Ronald Reagan. Toy maker Mattel is honoring the late legendary Cherokee leader with a Barbie doll as part of its "Inspiring Women" series. (Michael Wyke/Tulsa World via AP, FILE)

In Mexico, a Japanese traditional dancer shows how body …

Aimi Kawasaki, a Japanese traditional Hanayagi-style dance student, practices in Professor Naoko Kihara's studio in Mexico City, Friday, Nov. 24, 2023. For traditional dancers, choreography is a sign of respect and no detail is minor. How a woman holds her fan speaks of her sense of elegance and honor. “You are not taught a dance, but a way of living,” said Kawasaki. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)

Police charge director of Miss Nicaragua pageant with …

FILE - Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, lead a rally in Managua, Nicaragua, Sept. 6, 2018. The U.S. State Department called Nicaragua’s formal withdrawal from the Organization of American States on Sunday, Nov. 19, “another step away from democracy.” The regional body, known by its initials OAS, has long criticized rights violations under Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. Ortega, who governs alongside his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, has rejected those criticisms and started the two-year process to leave the OAS in November 2021. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga, File)

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President Joe Biden meets with Angola's President Joao Manuel Goncalves Lourenco in the Oval office of the White House, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Illinois appeals court affirms actor Jussie Smollett’s …

FILE - Jussie Smollett arrives at the BET Awards, June 26, 2022, in Los Angeles. An appeals court on Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, upheld the disorderly conduct convictions of Smollett, who was accused of staging a racist, homophobic attack against himself in 2019 and then lying about it to Chicago police.(Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

Tony winner Audra McDonald to serve as grand marshal …

Alex Aghajanian, President and Chairman of the Board for the 2024 Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association, left, announces actor-singer Audra McDonald as the 2024 Tournament of Roses Grand Marshal on the front steps of Tournament House in Pasadena, Calif., Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. The 135th Rose Parade presented by Honda, themed "Celebrating a World of Music," and the 110th Rose Bowl Game will be on Monday, Jan. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

King Charles III draws attention by wearing a Greek …

King Charles III attends a group photo at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Climate protesters twice interrupt Wagner’s `Tannhäuser’ …

FILE - People appear in Josie Robertson Plaza in front of The Metropolitan Opera house at Lincoln Center in New York on March 12, 2020. . (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

A look back at 50 years of Kiss-tory as the legendary …

FILE - Members of the band Kiss, from left, Tommy Thayer, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons and Eric Singer attend the premiere of A&E Network's "Biography: KISStory" during the 20th Tribeca Festival in New York on June 11, 2021. The band's final two shows are scheduled for Dec. 1 and 2 at Madison Square Garden in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

The director of Russia’s Mariinsky Theatre, Valery …

FILE - Mariinsky Theatre's Artistic Director Valery Gergiev, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin talk to each other in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018. Gergiev, who has served as director of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, was also appointed Friday, Dec. 1, 2023 by the Russian government the director of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)