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Podcast: The Charisse Report
Episode: Ep. 145: Donyale Luna, the first black supermodel
Description: This episode is going to be a timeline of the life, impact and death of Donyale Luna, the first black supermodel.
We’ll be touching on her life growing up in an abusive household in the 1940s, becoming a model during a time when racism was alive and well within the fashion industry and 1960s America as a whole, and we’ll be looking at how her rise to the top led to an inevitable drug addiction and a lonely death at the age of 33.
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