Special Episode: The Song That Found Me

Published: June 13, 2020, 1:14 a.m.

The Times critic Wesley Morris had listened to Patti LaBelle\u2019s live rendition of \u201cIf You Don\u2019t Know Me by Now\u201d over a hundred times before. But one recent Sunday, the song came on and he heard something new. \u201cI heard her thinking through an ultimatum now being laid down in the streets of this country,\u201d he went on to write. Soon after, he got a call from one Ms. Patti LaBelle.