I spoke with Ledisi about her Pieces of Me album for Reuters. I liked her right away, not just because she lives in my native Bay Area but, because she wanted to talk books and now what I was reading. Nerd fun.
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Sabrina Ford
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The Candy Report- Black People on Mad Men: The Suitcase“If I wanted to see two negroes fight, I’d throw a dollar bill out my window” -Miss Blankenship While no black people actually appear in this episode, “The Suitcase” was composed around the historic May 1965 fight between black heavyweights Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston. Despite having changed his name to Muhammad Ali a year [.. […]
- you should read…I interviewed Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders) and JP Jones about their new group, JP, Chrissie and the Fairground Boys for the August/September issue of Bust. The songs on their album are “written to, for and about each other,” of their May-December would-be romance. They couldn’t have a marriage, they say, so they created a musical [...]
- Black People On Mad Men: The RejectedWhen I see black people on Mad Men, I’m as excited as I imagine my mother and grandmother were when they saw black people on TV in 1965, the year the show is currently set in. So I’ve decided to blog about the black people who make appearances on the show as well as the [...]
- Black People on Mad Men: The Suitcase
Described the feeling you get when you get to interview someone from the bay your home