Betty White has passed away at the age of 99.

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...18 days from her 100th Birthday :(

Betty White has passed away at the age of 99.

The legendary comedic actress died just weeks before her milestone 100th birthday, TMZ reports.

White is said to have passed away at her home on Friday morning, law enforcement sources tell the outlet.

The Golden Girls star - who was born in 1922 - was set to reach her 100 birthday on January 17.

R.I.P lovely lady... you certainly made so many people happy....
 

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There was more to her career than laughter. She took a stand for Arthur Duncan a year before Rosa Parks made her stand in a Montgomery AL bus.

https://www.salon.com/2021/12/31/re...other-and-the-first-lady-of-television-at-99/

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In 1954 she discovered tap dancer Arthur Duncan, who would become the first African-American regular to be featured on a variety series with his work on "The Lawrence Welk Show."

Duncan, who was featured in 2018 PBS documentary "Betty White: First Lady of Television," told critics covering a PBS event promoting the film that he worked with White on her nationally distributed talk variety series for NBC, "The Betty White Show." Back in the 1950s, he said, "They had people from various areas . . . that sort of resented black Americans on the program and they threatened to withdraw their support of the show if I continued on the show."

Duncan said he wasn't aware of the racist backlash to his appearance until White wrote about it in one of her memoirs. "And she explained it this way," Duncan recalled. "Her remark was, 'Needless to say, we used Arthur Duncan every opportunity we could.' . . . I think that she just stood up for her beliefs, and that ended that."
 

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