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Sophia A. Nelson: Where Do Broken Hearts Go: Whitney Has Found Her Way Home

Award Winning Author; culture & style columnist for NBC's theGRIO.com, Essence Magazine, and USA TODAY Contributor, NPR

As a teenage black girl growing up in southern New Jersey in the 1980s, Whitney Houston was someone unimaginable to me: young, black, beautiful, talented and energetic. She set a new standard for Gen X, she was our Diana Ross, our Billie Holiday.

 

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