Norman Richmond gives the backstory to the great Aretha Franklin, explaining that her father, a minister, was an early champion for civil rights in Detroit, leading marches and bringing political struggle into his sermons. The family was close to Martin Luther King and many militant activists.
Richmond told of how Aretha came to sing Nina Simone's "Young, Gifted, and Black."
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Interview with Norman Otis Richmond
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