Someone sent me information about this today.
Sounds like a Don’t Miss This.
I went to the premiere of Terence Blanchard’s opera Champion.
Not your grandma’s opera. The story of Emile Griffith,
an African American, born in the US Virgin Islands,
closeted gay boxer, who beat his homophobic boxing rival,
Benny, the Kid Paret, (he publicly called Griffith a …
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