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The October Benefit Brunch at Avalon Lounge at Mohegan Sun will be held Saturday to benefit Keep A Child Alive foundation.

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The Jazz River—Inspired by the Pandemic: Music from the Red Hot Organization Share In 1989, while the world was being ravaged by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, Leigh Blake and John Carlin, both involved in the downtown New York creative arts scene that was devastated by the AIDS epidemic, joined forces to create the Red Hot Organization. Its mission was to use popular culture to raise money and awareness to fight AIDS. With backgrounds in both visual and performing arts, the couple began enlisting high-profile musicians and producing records across an incredible diversity of genres and wi...

Alicia Keys).   “17 More Ways” is a follow-up piece to “23 Ways You Could Be Killed If You Are Black In America,” produced in 2016 by Alicia Keys and Leigh Blake for Mic.com, featuring appearances by Beyonce, Rihanna, Chris Rock, Taraji P. Henson and more than a dozen others. “17 More Ways’ is also a companion piece to a December #breathewithme Revolution NowThis “Resolution” video featuring artists and activists like Billie Eilish, Sasha Lane, Brittany Packnett Cunningham, Van Jones, Dr. Marc Lamont Hill and Dr. Harry Grammer and joining Congresswoman...

© Scott Gries/Getty Images In 2003 American musician Alicia Keys cofounded Keep a Child Alive with Leigh Blake, an HIV/AIDS activist, with the goal of making urgently needed HIV medications accessible to children and families in Africa. The organization’s mission has since expanded to include other services, such as clinical care and psychosocial support as well as a commitment to end the AIDS epidemic. Keep a Child Alive now supports HIV/AIDS programs in several African countries and India. Most prominent among its fund-raising efforts is the annual Black Ball, a black-tie gala that inclu...