Radiolab Presents “The Vanishing of Harry Pace”

A tale of America’s first Black-owned record label [View this email in your browser]( [This Week on WNYC]( [The Vanishing of Harry Pace]( is a series about hidden identities, crossing color lines, and the phenomenal but forgotten man who transformed American pop music. It was Motown before Motown, FUBU before FUBU. Black Swan Records was the first Black-owned record label. It was founded 100 years ago by Harry Pace, who busted through Tin Pan Alley's color barrier writing songs with W.C. Handy, launched the career of Ethel Waters, inspired Ebony and Jet magazines, desegregated the South Side of Chicago in an epic Supreme Court battle, and made the first recording of "Lift Every Voice and Sing." Then, suddenly, he disappeared. Why? From [Radiolab]( [OSM Audio]( comes [The Vanishing of Harry Pace](. The new series is created by the team that brought you the Peabody award-winning podcast [Dolly Parton's America]( Jad Abumrad and Shima Oliaee. It was produced in collaboration with author Kiese Laymon, scholar Imani Perry, writer Cord Jefferson, WNYC's Jami Floyd, and WQXR's Terrance McKnight. Copyright © 2021 New York Public Radio. All rights reserved. You are on this list because you signed up to receive mail from WNYC. Our mailing address is: New York Public Radio 160 Varick Street New York, NY 10013 Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](.