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Joyce Bryant dies, aged 95, Alzheimer’s disease in Los Angeles, California, USA. She had found widespread success as a singer, dancer and civil rights activist, achieving fame in the late 1940s and early 1950s as a theater and nightclub performer. Bryant, who often faced discrimination and was outspoken on issues of racial inequality, became in 1952 the first black entertainer to perform at the Algiers Hotel in Miami Beach, defying threats by the Ku Klux Klan who had burned her in effigy.