“Back then, I knew more things, more of the dirty tricks which history has covered up. I discussed them only with my friends. Now things have gotten all mixed up in my head. In spite…
Exposing Perle Noire “Miss Baker… has, alas, almost become a little lady. Her caramel-colored body, which overnight became a legend in Europe, is still magnificent, but it has become thinned, trained, almost civilized. Her voice,…
My first apartment in New York City was at the 190th stop on the A train, just at the base of Fort Tryon Park, and The Met Cloisters was one of the first places that…
Harlem & Hughes on My Mind It was thrilling to be the first singer offered an artist residency at The Met. On my first research visit, my mind reeled as I walked through gallery after…
