Personal Life
Flack is a member of the Artist Empowerment Coalition, which advocates the right of artists to control their creative properties. She is also a spokesperson for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; her appearance in commercials for the ASPCA featured "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face". In the Bronx section of New York City, the Hyde Leadership Chart School's after-school music program is called "The Roberta Flack School of Music" and is in partnership with Flack, who founded the school, which provides free music education to underprivileged students.
Between 1966 to 1972, she was married to Stephen Novosel. Flack is the aunt of the professional ice skater Rory Flack Burghart.
According to a DNA analysis, she descended, mainly, from people of Cameroon.
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