Roberta Flack最近成立了他自己的公益團體，名稱是the Roberta
Flack Foundation，她想幫助很多她覺得很重要的事，現在她宣布了頭二位獲得基金會獎學金的得主。
第一個獎學金將頒給SheLectricity，按照這個單位的網頁介紹，他們專案的目標是針對多彩多姿的女孩們，將科技、文化與社區結合去產生安全、線上培育與個人的環境，他們將協助年輕人學習、成長、創新與領先。
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Roberta Flack Foundation打算今年秋季開始在三個樞紐都市加州奧克蘭、洛杉磯與田納西州孟非斯做一些活動，第二個計劃是推薦一位舊金山的教育家Carol Swainson，他為學校拍過一部紀錄片，片子讓家庭成員可以舒服地談種族偏差，讓負面的種族歧視有希望改變。
Swainson 的紀錄片得到the National Association of Independent
Schools 與 the White Privilege Conference二個組織的支助。
Flack七月1日將在紐約開記者會推薦該活動。
Roberta
Flack 1939年出生於北卡羅來納州，是一位鋼琴歌唱家，15歲就獲得鋼琴學位，然後當中學音樂老師，後來經由爵士樂手Les McCann介紹踏入流行音樂界。
Roberta
Flack 1972年以電影「迷霧追魂｣的插曲"The First
Time Ever I Saw Your Face"成名，1973年的"Killing Me Softly With His Song"確立了她在歌壇的地位，這首連續五周獲得排行榜冠軍的歌是Grammy獎年度歌曲，在BMI最常播出百名歌曲榜獲得第11名。
Killing Me Softly
Roberta Flack
Songwriters: Norman Gimbel / Charles Fox
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
I heard he sang a good song, I heard he
had a style
And so I came to see him to listen for a
while
And there he was this young boy, a
stranger to my eyes
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
I felt all flushed with fever,
embarrassed by the crowd
I felt he found my letters and read each
one out loud
I prayed that he would finish but he
just kept right on
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
He sang as if he knew me in all my dark
despair
And then he looked right through me as
if I wasn't there
But he just came to singing, singing
clear and strong
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly
with his son
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