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City Limits celebrated its 47th anniversary on Oct. 26 by inducting four remarkable New Yorkers into the City Limits' Gala Hall of Fame: United Way of New York City President & CEO Grace Bonilla, Mission Magnified Principal Neill Coleman, Community Service Society President & CEO David R. Jones and WNYC radio host Brian Lehrer.
How did the idea for this podcast come about? While I was editor of Guardian Cities, some colleagues and I were discussing NWA’s Fuck tha Police, a song about police brutality that became a kind of protest anthem during the 1992 LA riots. Of course, it wasn’t the song that lit the fire; it was the failure to convict four LAPD officers for their filmed assault on Rodney King. But I began to wonder about the times when a song did light the match on world events, when music was the key that unlocked change in a city’s history. Before long I had dozens of stories I wanted to tell.