
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, May 3, 1993                   TAG: 9305030006
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PEOPLE COLUMN

Aretha Franklin and Lena Horne were among eight recipients of Essence awards at a ceremony in New York presided over by Patti LaBelle and Danny Glover.

The annual awards sponsored by Essence magazine were created in 1987 to focus attention on the achievements of black women.

Other recipients Friday were Carol Moseley-Braun, who last year became the first black woman elected to the U.S. Senate; Olympic gold medalist Gail Devers; "Sweet" Alice Harris, community activist and founder of Parents of Watts; Tina Turner; Rosa Parks; and Corla Wilson-Hawkins, an educator and community activist.

\ The movie memorabilia Debbie Reynolds collected over the past 25 years will have a permanent home at the former Paddlewheel Hotel in Las Vegas that she's renovating, at a cost of about $15 million.

She plans to reopen it in July as the Debbie Reynolds' Hollywood Hotel-Casino and Motion Picture Museum. It will feature 193 rooms with a Hollywood motif and a museum for her $10 million collection.

by CNB