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Aretha Franklin’s Regal Rebellion Against Racism
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The late Queen of Soul was “a black woman with no qualms about projecting that blackness to the world in all of its nuanced beauty,” writes Stereo Williams.
Stereo Williams
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Aug. 17 2018
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