Raven

Gavin Whitehead

Raven is a podcast about the unforgettable man who founded Harlem's first and only wax museum and the extraordinary people who went out of their way to keep its memory alive. Raven Chanticleer was a multi-talented artist and larger-than-life eccentric. For thirty years, he dreamed of opening a wax museum devoted to Black history in Harlem. In 1989, he finally did. The museum garnered all kinds of media attention in New York and abroad, with major Black artists, intellectuals, and politicians singing its praises. When Raven died in 2002, his family planned to gut the museum and sell the property. But members...

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