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A picture worth a thousand words.

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Julia Barrett

I love this photo of Lillian Evanti, (Annie Lillian Evans), an African-American opera singer born in 1890. She could not sing opera in America. In 1925 she moved to France, where she remained until the outbreak of WWII. The photo … Continue reading →

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