The Juneteenth and Jazz Community Celebration will be held at the Eiteljorg Museum on Saturday, June 21, featuring jazz ...

"It's impossible to separate music from the civil rights movement. Jazz music in particular," he explains. "So how did we get so disconnected that musicians— profoundly great, brilliant ...

The album is called “A Grand Night for Swinging." The joy and groove are infectious. Mary Lou Williams was a consummate jazz innovator. She was also at the forefront of the nascent civil rights ...

He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create, and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment and many different ...

Honoring the life and accomplishments of Martin Luther King Jr. and other Civil Rights changemakers, Tye, a former reporter for The Boston Globe, will discuss these jazzmen's lives off the bandstand, ...

New Haven: Yale University Press. Bullard, Sara. (1993). Free at Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died in the Struggle. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Blues People: The ...

In this digital age of disinformation, it’s easy for simple facts about the Civil Rights Movement to get misconstrued. During this era, which rose to prominence in the 1950s, Black folks worked ...

As the civil rights movement unfolded in Atlanta ... King Jr. Drive in 1976), it was also a hotel and home to renowned jazz club La Carrousel. According to A Culinary History of Atlanta, King ...

Often hailed as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” Rosa Parks became a ... More the Tory Burch Foundation at Jazz at Lincoln Center on March 05, 2020 in New York City.

This column was adapted from the forthcoming “New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement,” to be released on Jan. 14. As an author and journalist ...