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Milwaukee's Sellers, the first Black woman cantor, finally gets a grave marker

Thanks to the efforts of Shahanna McKinney Baldon, Gladys Mae Sellers, a pioneering Milwaukee singer who gained fame in New York's Yiddish theater scene of the 1920s and '30s and became the first African-American woman cantor, will finally get a grave marker.

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