For Brown, race was an unavoidable subject in her new stage production about the Black, female icons Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald
Oh? Tell us what you really think, Divine Brown.
It’s continuation of a trend that sees racialized artists under-represented at the podium in the biggest moments. She’s referring to the segregated regions of America in the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s. During the Eisenhower era, for example, Fitzgerald was arrested in her dressing room at an integrated concert in Texas. At the police station, an officer asked for her autograph.
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