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Roberta Donnay: 'As a Child, I Thought I Was Black'

Raymond Van Tassel

Recent GLT Jazz Cabaret performer Roberta Donnay says when she found out as a small child that she was white, she got angry.  On this edition of GLT Jazz Next, Donnay talks to Jon Norton about where that anger came from, and about her latest album of prohibition era jazz, titled "Bathtub Gin."

Jon Norton was the program director and morning host at WGLT and WCBU until January 2026, when he retired.