APRIL 21, 2023, BY CONTRIBUTED BY: BLACKPAST AND LISA ROY Nora Holt was an important figure in the history of Black music in Chicago in the 1930s and was a noted musician, composer, and renowned singer and performer during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1940s. While employed as a music critic for the Chicago Defender from 1917-1921, she co-founded […]

NORA HOLT (1885 – JANUARY 25, 1974)