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Exactly 100 years ago, Harry Pace founded America's first Black-owned record label. Black Swan Blues, my 2014 book telling his extraordinary story, inspired Jad Abumrad & Shima Oliaee’s new Radiolab series The Vanishing of Harry Pace. Over the past 12 months, we've been able to gather a lot of fresh information about Pace and Black Swan, so I've produced a expanded edition of my book which you can buy here. As a little bonus for PlanetSlade readers, I've also posted a new website essay called A Georgia Lynching, which tells the full story behind an incident Black Swan's Ethel Waters mentions in her autobiography.
posted by Paul Slade on Jun 19, 2021 - 0 comments

It's that time of year again! For the NINTH year running, I'm hosting an Oscar "Pick 'Em" contest over at my website. Every year the winner receives a custom, one-of-a-kind sock monkey creation. (Previously: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.) This year's prize is a pair of custom-made, one-of-a-kind Black Swan and White Swan ballerina sock monkeys. One is beautiful, pure, and repressed; the other is totes sexy-crazy. Everyone is welcome to enter the contest!
posted by web-goddess on Feb 9, 2011 - 0 comments