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Guest Editor: Ella Fitzgerald touched my heart | Afro

By Brenda Alford AFRO Guest editor During the summer of my 11th year, I was allowed for the first time to go shopping in a record store in Fells Point in East Baltimore on my own, with my own money. Enter the magic of the wondrous Miss Ella Fitzgerald! While I was browsing in the […]

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