The Starlight Union
The Cotton Club on 135th Street smelled of gin and sweat and possibility. Ella Johnson stood at the edge of the stage, her back to the brick wall that separated the kitchen from the bandstand, and watched the crowd below. Two hundred faces, mostly Black, some white—curious tourists and regulars who had come for the music and stayed for something they could not name. The air was thick with...
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