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Just as jazz musicians arrange countless combinations of notes and rhythms to create unique songs, people with disabilities navigate a multitude of challenges to create extraordinary lives. Organizers of the South Beach Jazz Festival want Miami audiences to know that living with a disability doesn’t make anyone any less capable, particularly when it comes to achieving their dreams. In its fifth year, the festival aims to share the diverse rhythms and styles that comprise jazz music and the multifaceted lives of those living with disabilities through a series of performances scheduled for Ja...

Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis in August Wilson’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” streaming on Netflix. Photo courtesy of Netflix. Just as every premiere of an August Wilson play on Broadway was a major event, every film based on his plays should shake the earth beneath our feet. Especially for those of us who, being white, get to know Wilson’s characters from the outside looking in, film adaptations like “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” should be a clarion call for all of us to listen actively, experience deeply, break some bread, and renew our commitment to those ever-elusive concep...

The reality is far more complicated ... Louis Armstrong. Photograph: Eliot Elisofon/The Life Picture Collection/Getty Images The reality is far more complicated ... Louis Armstrong. Photograph: Eliot Elisofon/The Life Picture Collection/Getty Images Casual listeners think of him as a gentle giant of jazz, but critics and African Americans often saw him as a sell out or ‘Uncle Tom’. A new book aims to show how radical ‘Pops’ really was EdPrideaux Thu 17 Dec 2020 05.08 EST Last modified on Fri 18 Dec 2020 06.15 EST “I cannot think of another American artist who so failed his own talen...

Telling you about. a witness described the scene as mayhem when gunshots broke out during the third quarter of the state playoff game between hampton and -- [inaudible] [background sounds] >> what you saw was a wave of people coming away from the shooting, parents holding their babies and little children so they weren't injured -- [inaudible] people running away from the shooting. and i think part of the fence was -- [inaudible] from bodies of people just going over the fence. it was just a lot of people afraid, there were kids getting separated from their parents running around on the field. ...