Ravi Howard on singer Nat King Cole: “The Jackie Robinson of television” — salon.com

Tayari Jones: So first off, how is the weather down there? Ravi Howard: I almost hate to say it to people who are not down here, but we got into the 60s today. TJ: Don’t rub it in. I’m wearing my puffy coat indoors at this point. RH: I’m not rubbing it in. I feel your pain. You remember that I lived in New Jersey for seven years. TJ: Did you write much when you were up here? RH: When I was up there I was writing about Alabama, but I was writing about the South from a remembered space. Even though I had been gone for years, stories about home were primarily what I was writing and imagining.

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