Flyers late singer Kate Smith had N.C. ties
PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Flyers removed a statue of late singer Kate Smith, who had ties to North Carolina, from outside the NHL team’s arena Sunday, two days after covering it amid allegations of racism against the 1930s star with a popular recording of “God Bless America.”Smith, nicknamed “The Song Bird of the South” spent the last few years of her life in Raleigh, N>C. where she died in 1986. A photo on a […]
