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2020 Tumultuous Times — Panademic to Civil Unrest

Karen Kaye
4 min readJun 9, 2021

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Over the last year the world has gone through some pretty difficult times from being locked down to try to stop the spread of the Coronavirus (Covid-19), to the death of George Floyd, which lead to the massive movements for justice.

All races felt the challenges of living together as one in full peace and harmony. However there is a statue of the Four Ladies on Hollywood Blvd, that represents each race.

Four Ladies —

The four ladies of the silver stars are Delores Del Rio, Dorothy Dandridge, Mae West and Anna Mae Wong. A fifth lady sits high atop which is Marilyn Monroe.

During all the uncertainty of the times these four ladies represents four different races, standing side by side in perfect peace and harmony. In the year 2020, we became more divide as a nation, and learning the history of these four ladies intrigued my curiosity.

Delores Del Rio, was a Mexican actress, dancer and singer and her career spanned more than 50 years, and is seen as the first major female Latin American crossover star in Hollywood. She had an outstanding…

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Karen Kaye
Karen Kaye

Written by Karen Kaye

Hollywood Happenings is an on-line community newspaper, created, copyrighted and trademarked in 2003. I am an award winning sports writer, Red Carpet interviews

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