Music matters: 2 Black-owned record labels changed history
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Just because we can’t attend physical events doesn’t mean there’s not a lot of cool stuff happening around the Capital Region. Last week, I had the good fortune to be part of one.
On Feb. 13, the Albany Institute of History & Art held a virtual presentation entitled Black Swan Records and Motown Records – African-American Independent Music Companies. The class, conducted through Zoom by local music historian Donald Hyman, took the few dozen participants on a journey through two of the most important labels in American music and cultural history.
Dan Haar: Break all vaccine rules to end the racial gap we can t measure
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Adam Rinko, right, emergency management director for the city of Waterbury, shows the vaccine storage room to Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz and Sen. Richard Blumenthal on Feb. 19, 2021, at a vaccination clinic at a magnet school run by the city and St. Mary s Hospital.Dan Haar/Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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Amos Smith, CEO of the Community Action Agency of New Haven, at an online forum on COVID-19 vaccine access, with a tropical vacation backdrop.Screen ShotShow MoreShow Less
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Among the steady stream of people exiting Stamford Hospital Friday night with fresh COVID vaccines in their arms, most of them white, a 71-year-old immigrant from Trinidad named Odette counted herself as fortunate.
California s Black students benefited greatly from college policy changes. Advocates have more ideas
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Kyra Abrams, a junior at UC Berkeley, attends a remote class at her grandmother’s home in San Pablo.Marlena Sloss / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Graduation photographs of Kyra Abrams (right), her father, Franklin Abrams, and her grandmother, Josie Abrams.Photos by Marlena Sloss / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Ja’Corey Bowens, a junior at S.F. State, says making high school A-G courses “the default curriculum is a great idea” to meet requirements for CSU and UC campuses.Marlena Sloss / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less