[Ads-l] Tea, and more

[Bill Mullins]

There's a book about the TV show "Soul Train" called "The Hippest Trip in America" by Nelson George (found on archive.org).  It says, in reference to the black-targeted magazine "Right On!", "To emphasize this connection between the show and the magazine, dancers would often be hired to write for Right On! For a time in the 1970s, popular dancer Little Joe Chism wrote a column called "And That's the Tea," “tea” being LA slang at the time for gossip, which mostly related happenings at Hollywood parties."

Joe Chism was gay, FWIW.

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