This story was originally reported by Mariel Padilla of The 19th. In 2016, Candace Owens emerged as a leading conservative voice, the rare Black woman backing then-candidate Donald Trump. In 2017, she was hired by Turning Point USA, a conservative nonprofit co-founded by Charlie Kirk. In 2020, she announced that she’d be joining The Daily […]
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‘Opera Has Never Been White’: The Invisible Legacy of Black Women in Classical Music
Originally published by The 19th It was 1781 when a 14-year-old girl made her debut as an opera soloist in Saint-Domingue, the former French colony now called Haiti. She was a free person of color, the first person of African descent to star as the soloist in a French opera, and soon became the main […]
