Dolly Parton, the star who refused to pick a political side but never remained silent

Dolly Parton, the singer, songwriter and actress who rose from a poor family in the Tennessee mountains and became one of American music’s biggest stars, died Tuesday at 80 in Nashville. Her popularity won her millions of fans over generations and crossed some of the deepest cultural and political divides of recent decades, as she managed the difficult feat of speaking about issues that mattered to her while remaining apart from partisan politics in an increasingly polarized country.

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