Brown Girl Collective - HERStory Matters: Canadian opera singer Portia White was born on June 24, 1911. Portia White was born in Truro, Nova Scotia, the third of 13 children born to
RTO - Portia White was the first black Canadian singer to become an international star in the 1930s and '40s. Portia attended Dalhousie University and studied to become a teacher. After graduating
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