Cissy Houston, Myrna Smith, Sylvia Shamwell and Estelle Brown of The Sweet Inspirations in London to promote their single “What the World Needs Now” in December 1968. Photo: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS
Whitney Houston with Arthur Mitchell, Cicely Tyson and her mother, Cissy Houston on December 9, 1988. Photo courtesy of Robert Garland of the Dance Theater of Harlem.