
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Don’t call Eartha Kitt an “angry Black woman.” That’s how Eartha was portrayed when she spoke truth to power and criticized the Vietnam War and wealth inequality in front of President Johnson and the First Lady. The bold move cost her career opportunities and even prompted a CIA investigation, but she still came out on top. Don Lemon speaks with CNN's senior entertainment writer Lisa Respers France and Eartha's daughter, Kitt Shapiro, who recently wrote a book about her mother, Eartha & Kitt: A Daughter's Love Story in Black and White.
To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
By CNNDon’t call Eartha Kitt an “angry Black woman.” That’s how Eartha was portrayed when she spoke truth to power and criticized the Vietnam War and wealth inequality in front of President Johnson and the First Lady. The bold move cost her career opportunities and even prompted a CIA investigation, but she still came out on top. Don Lemon speaks with CNN's senior entertainment writer Lisa Respers France and Eartha's daughter, Kitt Shapiro, who recently wrote a book about her mother, Eartha & Kitt: A Daughter's Love Story in Black and White.
To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

37,272 Listeners

3,860 Listeners

830 Listeners

1,693 Listeners

716 Listeners

1,320 Listeners

3,075 Listeners

14,310 Listeners

396 Listeners

2,428 Listeners

1,718 Listeners

3,354 Listeners

8,217 Listeners

1 Listeners

2 Listeners