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Source: NPR "News & Notes with Ed Gordon"

Roundup

A Final Tribute to Richard Pryor [4min]

Commentator Todd Boyd says that as a critic of pop culture, he owes a debt of gratitude to the late Richard Pryor. Boyd is the Katherine and Frank Price endowed chair for the study of race and popular culture at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television.

Read entire article at NPR "News & Notes with Ed Gordon"