Ray Green: A Jacksonville Entrepreneur and Lawyer

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Lavelle Hardie's in jail. They find him with 7,000 bucks on him when he's arrested. That's about just under $50,000 today. He gave most of that to an attorney who convinced the prosecutor to let him go too. She was still broke at this point. I mean, she was still, she might have been let off, but she was still kind of stuck. But there was somebody waiting outside the courtroom for her that would change her life forever.

Mary Jones could sing just like Aretha Franklin. One night, a James Brown impersonator saw her perform at a Motown tribute show - and thought he could take her on tour and trick audiences into believing she was the real Queen of Soul. Jeff Maysh tells the story.

Learn more in Jeff Maysh’s piece for Smithsonian Magazine, “The Counterfeit Queen of Soul.”

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