Jazz At Lincoln Center Presents Freedom, Justice, And Hope
Josh Evans’ work, “Elaine,” commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center, is a piece informed by the 1919 Elaine Massacre in Hoop Spur, Phillips County, Arkansas. by TV News Desk
Hope is our superpower, said Bryan Stevenson in his rousing address last week to the Howard University Classes of 2020 and 2021. Stevenson, the social justice activist and founder of The Equal Justice Initiative, will expand on this powerful message through music and words as he joins the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis in the multi-disciplinary concert event, Freedom, Justice, and Hope with Bryan Stevenson. Presented by Jazz at Lincoln Center in collaboration with Bryan Stevenson, Freedom, Justice, and Hope will feature the world-renowned orchestra debuting new works from emerging composers Endea Owens and Josh Evans. Freedom, Justice, and Hope with Bryan Stevenson, filmed in Rose Theater, located in Jazz at Lincoln Center
Iftaar with President Cyril Ramaphosa
May 07, 2021
The 6th May marks an auspicious occasion as President Cyril Ramaphosa once again joined the Muslim community for iftaar during the final days of the holy month of Ramadaan.
Hosted by the Muslim Judicial Council in the Western Cape under the theme – We Shall Overcome #COVID19: Giving Thanks, Celebrating our Courage & Unity.
Ramaphosa acknowledged the Muslim community’s contribution to the fight against apartheid as many Muslim South Africans played pivotal roles in paving the way to democracy, with the likes of Yusuf Dadoo, Ferida Adams, Ahmed Timol and Ahmed Kathrada who were just a few on the frontline of the struggle.
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Updated May 6, 2021 at 9:52 AM ET
Few American artists have concocted such a deliciously wild artistic and musical gumbo as 78-year-old Louisiana-raised, New York and California-tested Van Dyke Parks.
The arranger, songwriter, musician, actor and producer has performed and worked with everyone from Mothers of Invention and Skrillex to U2, The Byrds, Silverchair, and multiple collaborations with sonic genius Brian Wilson.
In this treasured set from 2012, Parks, in his first visit to
Mountain Stage, pulls back the curtain on his refreshingly scattershot career and shares his creative genius as one of America s truly diverse raconteurs.
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You might not know Zilphia Horton by name, but if youâve attended a protest in the past half-century, youâve probably sung her work. Horton arranged songs like âWe Shall Overcome,â âWe Shall Not Be Movedâ and âThis Little Light of Mineâ for group singing, which helped them become anthems of the civil rights and labor movements. As the music and drama director at the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tenn., she drew on the communal power of performing arts to help organize community activists, and collaborated with Rosa Parks and Pete Seeger among others to signal-boost their activism around important causes of the day.Â