By Cherranda Smith
Jun 9, 2021
The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra made history earlier this year, becoming the first all-Black classical symphony to perform in the famed Carnegie Hall in its 130-year history.
On April 24 of this year, the 125 instrumentalists of the orchestra performed at Carnegie Hall, showcasing a commission from Oscar-winning and Grammy-nominated
Jon Batiste, music director of
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The concert also included a rendition of “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” The group also performed Sinfonia No.3 to honor the late composer
George Walker, who was the first African American to earn the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
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Black Mountain Gold USA Corp. Receives Assay Results from Channel Sampling on Its Mohave Gold Project
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Samples were generally oriented perpendicular to the strike of the zones of quartz-calcite veins, stockwork veining and brecciation wherever terrain permitted and samples lengths below are not true widths. Composite lengths in Table 1 may not be strictly continuous due to terrain restrictions nor do they necessarily delineate the entire width of the mineralized zones. A portable mechanical rock saw with dual diamond blades was utilized for sampling via cutting two continuous parallel lines 2.5cm apart and approx. 3cm deep and then chiseling out the rock sample. Sampling was completed to produce more reliable data via channel sampling than the rock chip sampling and to expand the sampling done in 2020. In general the channel sampling data provides a m
YouTube Music Gives Update on $100 Million Black Voices Fund
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Last June, YouTube launched a $100 million #YouTubeBlack Voices Fund in an effort to help equip Black musicians with the resources and support to enable them to “thrive and invest in work that amplifies the voices, perspectives and stories of all Black artists around the world,” according to the announcement.
The company has provided periodic updates on aspects of the program, and on Wednesday, unveiled a report on the progress its music efforts have made over the past year in multiple cities and countries, which are recapped below.
JBS settles Muslim discrimination lawsuit for $5.5 million
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1of5FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2008, file photo, Fardowsa Anshur, right, voices her anger to a fellow JBS Swift & Co. co-worker during a gathering at Lincoln Park in Greeley, Colo., after they received the news that the company would not accommodate the Muslim employees with a sunset break for prayer. JBS Swift & Co., will pay up to $5.5 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed the meatpacking company discriminated against Muslim employees at its beef processing plant in northern Colorado. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed the lawsuit in federal court in Denver in 2010, saying JBS discriminated against employees at its plant in Greeley by denying them bathroom breaks and disciplining them more harshly than other workers because they were Muslim, immigrants from Somalia and Black. JBS must pay the $5.5 million to about 300 employees who