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Missy Elliott performs at the American Music Awards on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) Grammy Award-winning rapper and singer Missy Elliott has donated $50,000 to the Portsmouth Virginia Redevelopment and Housing Authority. Elliott, a Virginia native, will be helping families in housing crisis on the verge of being evicted, with her Oct. 17th donation. Director of the Portsmouth Redevelopment and Housing Authority Alisa Winston said that the money will be distributed to 26 different families to help them pay for their overdue rent after just a short ceremony celebration. The ceremony was held at the city’s oldest African American Baptist Church, Dr. O. Marriner Family Life Center at Grove Church. Missy ‘Misdemeanor” Elliott is the first female rapper to be inducted onto the Songwriter Hall of Fame 2020 and in November she will be honored along with the Class of 2023 into The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
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