POP/ROCK - March 4, 1987
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Former rock ‘n’ roller Richard (Little Richard) Penniman opened a fund drive to find a cure for sickle cell anemia, telling fans that “we don’t have one yet, so let’s be like the mustard and catch up.” Funds raised at 7-Eleven stores will go to the Sickle Cell Disease Research Foundation, which will mark its 30th anniversary in April. The disease is an inherited chronic anemia primarily affecting blacks.
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