Special Episode: The Song That Found Me

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Wesley Morris had listened to Patti LaBelle’s live rendition of “If You Don’t Know Me by Now” over a hundred times before. But one recent Sunday, as protests against racism and police brutality echoed outside his window, the song came on, and he heard something new.

“I heard her thinking through an ultimatum now being laid down in the streets of this country,” he went on to write. A few days later, he received a call from an unfamiliar number.

Wesley Morris contributed reporting.

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