Maxwell Pearce
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317 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
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And so one of the ways in which I started kind of paying that back was by honoring the Black women that I come from.
So like, you know, this is my grandmother.
Both of these pieces are my grandmother here.
And for the listeners, Maxwell, you're pointing at the art behind you.
And it's just my way of...
Giving her her flowers and her credit and letting her know that I appreciate the sacrifices that she has made.
She's 94, so she has lived through several different versions of this country and this world.
She lived through Jim Crow, segregation, so many different things.
And she's a huge part of where I am and who I am today.
My grandmother's name is Lovely Hill.
She, like I said before, she's 94.
She still walks to the bar and everything.
She was a model in the early 50s and late 40s.
She was one of the first black models for Pepsi, Clairol, some other publications.
She modeled the cover for Jet Magazine twice.
And then she retired.
from modeling and she went into education.
And at the time of this retirement, maybe it was like 1957 or something like that.
This was around the time where sterilization of black women was rampant, particularly in the United States.
So one day she sets a doctor's appointment and the doctor basically tells her that her ovaries were bad and that they needed to be removed.
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