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Carlos DeFord Bailey lights up the stage at the Grand Ole Opry, a testament to the musical and cultural legacy coursing through his veins.Bailey, who has been a familiar face to travelers at Nashville s airport for the past 25 years as the Music City Shoeshining Man, transforms by night into a singer, carrying forward a family tradition.His grandfather, DeFord Bailey, made history as the Opry s first Black performer and country music s first Black star, earning the nickname Harmonica Wizard in the mid-1920s and getting his start on the radio. Everybody was tune in on Saturday night, they hear this guy and they didn t know he was a Black man, to the blow the harmonica, said Bailey. And so when he mad
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Actress Ruby Rose is suiting up to play Batwoman in The CW s annual crossover special featuring characters from the network s other DC Comics shows. A standalone Batwoman show is also in the works, with Caroline Dries set to write the script, according to The Hollywood Reporter.If the show is picked up, Rose will be the network s first LGBT actress
yeezy to play the lead on one of the network s DC shows. The CW is a joint venture of Warner Bros. Entertainment and CBS Corporation.Rose, 32, is best known for her role in the Netflix series Orange is the New Black. She retweeted articles of the news Tuesday and issued a statement on Instagram. The Bat is out of the bag and I am beyond thrilled and honored. I m also an emotional wreck.. because this is a childhood dream, Rose wrote. This is something I would have died to have seen on TV when I was a young member of the LGBT community who never felt represented on tv and felt alone and different. The announcement comes after the network said it was searching for an openly lesbian actress to play Batwoman, whose real name is Kara Kane and who fights crime on the streets of Gotham. In De
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