Sunday 5 March 2017

"I'm going to be a roadie because a lady on a street corner said she had a psychic feeling"

 
An interview with Michelle Tea, an ode to Left Eye, and the untold history of black travel.
 
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Lenny Letter
 
 
What's it like when your ex-roommate writes about you and calls you Marcia? Kira Garcia finds out in her interview with Michelle Tea, who wrote about her in the cult classic Rent Girl. Also this week, an ode to Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes of TLC on the 25th anniversary of the group's first album, and cultural documentarian Candacy Taylor gives a primer on the Green Book, a travel guide for black Americans published between 1936 and 1967.
 
 
 
 
 
Rent Girl Grows Up
 
An interview with the writer Michelle Tea.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Music Monday: Ode to TLC's Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes
 
Revisiting the iconic singer's legacy on the 25th anniversary of TLC's debut album.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Untold Story of Black Travel in America
 
On the Green Book, a guide that kept black travelers safe from 1936 to 1967.
 
 
 
 
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Team Lenny
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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