How a new musical is helping to correct a whitewashed history---Writer-composer Kirsten Childs was walking down the street near her Upper West Side home when she spied a couple: a small, muscular man and an African-American woman she describes as "zaftig, with a kind of Venus Hottentot behind." Childs immediately noticed the reactions of passers-by. "Every single man who walked by them in the opposite direction -- bl…
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