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Opinion | ‘One Lucky Colored Girl’: White Narratives Undersell Laurel Opera Star Leontyne Price’s Role in Her Own ...
A few years ago, my hometown paper in Laurel, Miss., asked me to write a series of columns focusing on local historical events. I decided to cover Black history since the white perspective was dominant. In one column, I wrote about one of our renowned …