{"id":12965,"date":"2011-10-13T13:54:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T17:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=12965"},"modified":"2011-10-13T13:54:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T17:54:27","slug":"lenny-kravitz-tackles-racism-in-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/10\/lenny-kravitz-tackles-racism-in-new-album","title":{"rendered":"Lenny Kravitz Tackles Racism In New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12967\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12967\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12967\" title=\"lenny-kravitz2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/lenny-kravitz2-250x104.jpg\" alt=\"Lenny Kravitz\" width=\"250\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/lenny-kravitz2-250x104.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/lenny-kravitz2-150x62.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/lenny-kravitz2.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12967\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lenny Kravitz, was born to a black mother and a white father.\u00a0 In an interview with Mesfin Fekadu from the Associated Press, Kravitz said he didn&#8217;t recognize skin color in his own home as a child.<\/p>\n<p>Things changed when he went to elementary school.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know anything about problems until I went to first grade  and it was brought to my attention,&#8221; the rock singer and guitarist said.  &#8220;I knew my father looked different than my mother, but I didn&#8217;t know  that that meant anything&#8230; I had no idea that it was an issue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On his latest album, &#8220;Black and White America,&#8221; 47-year-old Kravitz  tackles that &#8220;issue&#8221; as well as what his parents experienced as an  interracial couple in 1960s New York. (Kravitz&#8217;s mother starred as Helen  Willis in the hit television show &#8220;The Jeffersons&#8221; in the 1970s and  `80s.)<\/p>\n<p>The Grammy winner&#8217;s ninth album, which debuted at No. 17 on the  Billboard 200 albums chart last month, was recorded over a two-year  period in the Bahamas and Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Click the link below to the Original Story to read the entire AP interview with Kravitz by By MESFIN FEKADU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his latest album, &#8220;Black and White America,&#8221; 47-year-old Kravitz tackles the race issue, as well as what his parents experienced as an interracial couple in 1960s New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[46,22,261],"class_list":["post-12965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-celebrities","tag-music","tag-racial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}