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🌱 How Michael Jackson’s Glendale funeral ties into centuries of Black performance.

Glendale, California Patch AM: a 4 min read

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  • How Michael Jackson’s Glendale funeral ties into centuries of Black performance.

Also on today's calendar: Garagiste Wine Festival: Urban Exposure and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What time is it when a clock chimes 13 times? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 86 and low of 60 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
  • Tuesday: Sunny much of the time, temps: high: 83, low: 64.
  • Wednesday: Areas of low clouds, then sun, with a high of 80 and low of 61 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Eels, Cakewalks, and the King of Pop (shatterthestandards.com) — Michael Jackson’s 2009 funeral at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale anchors a sweeping exploration of how his dance, image, and music grew from centuries of Black performance traditions. The piece traces everything from early market dances and blackface minstrelsy to Motown, showing how Jackson absorbed and remixed these influences into a crossover style that challenged rigid ideas about race and authenticity.
   

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: It's time to get a new clock. (Thank you Mary C. for sending it in!)
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