CNN's new Little Richard documentary is a worthy tribute to the rock 'n' roll legend
Little Richard: I Am Everything focuses on the star's roots in — and struggle with — his connection to queer culture. TV critic Eric Deggans says it's a masterpiece.
There is one question that stands at the heart of the CNN documentary Little Richard: I Am Everything, emerging as something of a mission statement for the film. And it's best articulated by Fredara Hadley, a ethnomusicologist at the Julliard School.
"What would it do to the American mythology of rock music," Hadley says, "to say that its pioneers were Black, queer people?"
A movie that re-centers Little Richard's story
Director Lisa Cortes builds her
