“Which Black American civil rights activist shares a name with the New Zealand-born singer best known for her Grammy-winning hit Royals?”I wasn’t surprised when a young man I dated several years ago asked this question while hosting drag trivia night at the gay cafe where he worked.
He was, after all, a huge fan of the Kiwi singer Lorde.I was even less surprised that not one player knew the answer. We were, after all, in Prague.
Although most of them were either English-speaking expats and tourists, or Czech locals who had at least a basic understanding of English, I would not have expected them to know the name of any civil rights activist not named Martin Luther King Jr.The answer, by the way, was Audra Lorde, and the fact that a.