Granderson: Soul singer Frankie Beverly's legacy of healing
Briefly

"When Reagan first workshopped that rhetoric, in his 1966 campaign for governor of California, the 'war on poverty' had just begun; the overall poverty rate was 17%, but for Black America in 1965 it was more than 40%."
"Listening now, I know that in New Orleans in 1980, Beverly singing 'we'll get through these changing times' was about all of this and the road ahead."
"Sometimes we go through life and things don't work out the way you want all the time; as you grow older, you kind of learn to live with the joys and pain of life..."
Read at Los Angeles Times
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