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    Kendrick Lamar, Pink and Katy Perry helped provide the star power, but the VMAs may have truly belonged to a rally victim's mother

    by By Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times Aug 28, 2017 3 minutes

    LOS ANGELES _ It wasn't Pink. It wasn't Taylor Swift. It wasn't even Katy Perry, who hosted the show and gave its closing performance.

    No, the person MTV clearly wanted to represent the 2017 edition of its annual Video Music Awards _ to communicate its heart and soul _ was Susan Bro, whose daughter Heather Heyer was killed this month as she protested the white-supremacist rally that erupted into violence in Charlottesville, Va.

    Appearing near the end of Sunday's production, broadcast

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