Black lives matter. I am a jazz writer, so my lens on this truth is in some respects through music. The protests sweeping the countryand#151;and globeand#151;are potent and necessarily focused on ending racial violence and police brutality. The images we see with increasingly open eyes of the barbaric treatment of African Americans are changing perceptions and helping us begin to confront systemic racism, the original sin of America's founding that will continue to bar our society from fulfilling the promise of justice and equality until it is overcome... [ read more ]
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