America hit a sad milestone on Wednesday as the U.S. death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic surpassed 100,000.
Little Richard Was a Quiet Civil Rights Pioneer Whose Concerts Helped Push Culture Past Segregation
10.05.2020 - 20:35 / billboard.com
The early history of rock 'n' roll is a story of segregation -- and Little Richard, who died of bone cancer at 87 on May 9, was a key player in the fight to destroy it.Because of Jim Crow laws, and racism in general, African-American musicians from Louis Armstrong to Charlie Parker to Motown revues traveling through the South spent much of the 20th century relegated to black hotels and black restaurants, denied entrance even to hotels where they were headlining.
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Richard Grenell to step down as US ambassador to Germany
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11.05.2020 / 22:51
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