
Apr 25 2022
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Hey, that is Lori Lakin Hutcherson, founder and editor in chief of goodblacknews.org, right here to share with you a day by day drop of Good Black Information for Monday, April twenty fifth, 2022, based mostly on the “A Yr of Good Black Information Web page-A-Day Calendar” printed by Workman Publishing. As we speak, we provide a quote from the “First Woman of Track” born 105 years in the past on this date, the incomparable Ms. Ella Fitzgerald.
“The one factor higher than singing is extra singing.”
Born in 1917 in Newport Information, Virginia, Ella Fitzgerald’s earliest creative ambitions had been to turn out to be a dancer. When the lack of her mom when she was 15 result in a relocation to Harlem to dwell together with her aunt and stints in an orphanage and a state reformatory college for ladies, Fitzgerald hustled to get by on the streets and at 17 took her terpsichorian
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