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Dope Girls true story: The real lives of Kate Meyrick, Billie Carleton and Edgar Manning
Characters such as Brilliant Chang, a Chinese restaurant proprietor and drug dealer, and Edgar Manning, a jazz drummer from Jamaica known as the Dope King, had become the villains ...
'A Thousand Blows': Who were the Forty Elephants gang and their thief 'queen' Mary Carr?
They're the Forty Elephants, a real gang led by the charismatic Mary Carr (Erin Doherty), who pilfer the prized possessions ...
The Black librarian who rewrote the rules of power, gender and passing as white
Just Because I am a Librarian doesn’t mean I have to dress like one.” With this breezy pronouncement, Belle da Costa Greene ...
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The Trailblazing Black Librarian Who Rewrote the Rules of Power, Gender and Racial Passing
Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...