Podcast 'Think Twice' and the complicated legacy of Michael Jackson
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
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Michael Jackson's Grand Return to Indiana
Michael Jackson almost never went back to Gary, Indiana in reality. He had a grand return decades later that a lot of locals I spoke to in Gary talked about having resentment towards him. The town was at a real crossroads right at this moment when the Jackson five were developing where Gary had been a thriving steel town. It's not an entirely black town, but it's a substantially black town.
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