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Joe Morton, 'Turn Me Loose' and the sly comic activism of Dick Gregory by Charles McNulty

Dick Gregory, the comedian and civil rights activist who died this year, played the role of the Shakespearean fool to white America, quipping subversive sentiments about race relations in a manner that made his audience chuckle even as they were being stung by the truth. A stand-up comic who drew...

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:10PM on October 16, 2017

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