Music Legend Tena Clark Unveils Her Chaotic Childhood In ‘Southern Discomfort’
Grammy winner Tena Clark, left, recalls growing up in Mississippi as a privileged young girl during the Jim Crow era in her new memoir “Southern Discomfort.” Clark spoke with “City Lights” host Lois Reitzes, right.
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The many dualities of the South can both make you feel connected to the place, but far apart from it at the same time.
Grammy winner Tena Clark knows this all too well and describes it in her new memoir “Southern Discomfort.”
Born in 1953, she has seen the bigotries that still hold firm in her hometown of Waynesboro, Mississippi. The world saw Clark as the daughter of the wealthiest man in the state. But behind closed doors, life couldn’t have been anymore chaotic.
Clark’s life may have looked like a fairy tale to outsiders, but internally, it was far from it.
In her new memoir, the Atlanta-based producer recalls her dysfunctional Mississippi upbringing as a privileged young girl growing up in the Jim Crow era.
The South is progressing, but it hasn’t progressed quickly enough. So growing up in Mississippi, even at a very early age, it did not make sense to me.
Tena Clark on segregation in the 1950s
“City Lights” host Lois Reitzes sat down with Clark to talk about the interesting stories that were brought up in this memoir.
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