Angela Gilltrap: Sunshine on Sugar Hill Apr 30, 2009
Who was it who sang "Love Changes Everything"?
It certainly did for Angela Gilltrap. You may remember her as one of the judges, alongside Lex Marinos on ABC Television's Strictly Dancing a few years back.
Well .. soon after that show folded, she was on a working holiday in New York when a chance encounter with the man of her dreams in a bookshop resulted in her moving into an apartment in a part of the city most visitors to New York don't even consider visiting, let along living in: Harlem.
She's written about her experience of going from being the only white girl on the block, to "Miss Ghetto Fabulous" in a great book called Sunshine on Sugar Hill.
I had a terrific chat to her yesterday about what life in Harlem is really like, what's happened to her since the book was written - and also the stark differences in attitudes between Americans and Australians. `
Click here http://blogs.abc.net.au/queensland/2009/04/angela-gilltrap.html
to download the audio file.
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