What Does Black Ambition Sound Like?
Notes from America with Kai Wright
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How the Armed Forces Were Not Into This at All.
White leadership took every opportunity to undermine and dehumanize these black troops. I often wonder about how soldiers like those in james resherb's band processed all this nastiness as they were sent off to fight in somebody else's there's just one image that i always, i love seeing: James ruster up actually standing in front of the cleft club. There's his huge orchestra behind him, and he's got like this kind of crate with with the american flag draped on it, on the floor, as if it's a coffin. But it's also where he stands when he conductswe at is int and you understand so much about what is at stake for them.
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