Once upon a time, jazz musicians in Los Angeles led a groundbreaking struggle for racial justice and economic opportunity that sent ripples of change across the country. Most of us are aware of the ...

Patrick Wall & Elise Boddie on NJ school segregation, Melissa Walker on the state of jazz. Patrick Wall (Chalkbeat Newark) & Elise Boddie (The Inclusion Project at Rutgers Univ.) join David Cruz to ...

During the Great Migration, about 6 million blacks escaped the terrorism of Jim Crow, starting around 1910, and settled in cities up north where they hoped to find jobs and a better life. One ...

Years ago, I came across a viral video clip of a strikingly regal, savant-like woman in a white gown, playing two pianos. The clip was from the 1943 film The Heat’s On and the pianist was Hazel Scott.