In the 1960s, Ben Jaffe’s family founded Preservation Hall to help keep a defining Black art form alive. In 2022, that’s a complicated part for a white musician to play.
Tag: Black People
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Suzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere Else
The first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in drama has four shows this season. “If you can hear the world singing, it’s your job to write it down,” she said.
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Education Divides Everything, Including Life and Death
“There are two Americas now: one with a B.A. and one without.”
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Charles Fuller, Pulitzer Winner for ‘A Soldier’s Play,’ Dies at 83
He was the second Black playwright to win the award and later adapted the play into an Oscar-nominated film, “A Soldier’s Story.”
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Supreme Court Leans Toward Alabama in Voting Rights Dispute
But several members of the court’s conservative majority rejected the state’s most aggressive arguments in defense of its congressional voting map.