"I was what they called the, you know, the greatest little dancer in Yonkers. And we used to go down to the Apollo on amateur night," he says. "There were two sisters who were the dance and the sisters in the world called the Edward sisters" She tells a story about how she got out of her training school by performing for an audience that didn't even recognize her.
Malcolm talks with Ben Naddaff-Hafrey, host of The Last Archive, about the forgotten origins of a major social science, the missing chapter in Ella Fitzgerald’s life, and what it all has to do with the prison just down the street from Malcolm’s office. Listen, and check out the brand new season from Pushkin’s The Last Archive.
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