FILE – In this Nov. 8, 2006 photo, American Nobel laureate and "Beloved" author Toni Morrison
smiles during a press conference at the Louvre Museum in Paris. Morrison and "Queen of Soul"
Aretha Franklin will be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020 as part
of a posthumous class of Black honorees that also includes Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were widely used
in biomedical research; Barbara Hillary, the first Black woman to travel to both the North and South
Pole, and civil rights activists Barbara Rose Johns Powell and Mary Church Terrell. (AP Photo/Michel
Euler, File)
