Charlie's Place

Pushkin Industries

How did a Black man in 1940s Jim Crow South open a club where Black and white people danced together? Charlie’s Place was revolutionary, and that meant it was dangerous. In this 5-part series, host Rhym Guissé explores the unbelievable true story of Charlie Fitzgerald, a mysterious Black businessman whose nightclub became an unlikely site of integration in 1940s Myrtle Beach. Charlie broke down racial barriers through the power of music and dance, hosting some of the greatest musicians of our time: Little Richard, Count Basie, Ray Charles, Duke Ellington, and many more. But who was Charlie? How did he ri...

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Charlie's Place

Episodes (6)

Sep 23, 2025 Introducing The Chinatown Sting: Lucky Bird
Aug 18, 2025 Episode 5: All Costs
Aug 11, 2025 Episode 4: Mr. Nobody From Nowhere

Charlie's Place

Sep 23, 2025
39 minutes
36 MB

Here’s a preview of a new Pushkin podcast, The Chinatown Sting. In the late 1980s, a group of women connected through the mahjong parlors in Manhattan’s Chinatown were caught in a massive undercover drug bust. But this bust was just the beginning of an even bigger case. Host Lidia Jean Kott and co-reporter Shuyu Wang interview sources who’ve never spoken on record before, including witnesses, defendants, and federal prosecutors, to reconstruct a case that still has repercussions today. In this episode, we meet Tina Wong, a young mother who found herself in the middle of the...

Charlie's Place

Introducing The Chinatown Sting: Lucky Bird

Pushkin Industries

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