Bessie Smith
Long before Beyonce, Pattie La Belle, Chaka Khan, or any of those sistas were filling up arenas and stuntin’ on jumboTrons, Bessie Smith was rocking crowds on the vaudeville circuit. One hundred and eighteen years ago today, Smith was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1894. She was raised in poverty and often ran away as […]
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