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Black unity means standing together instead of tearing each other down. It means supporting Black-owned businesses, celebrating each other’s success, encouraging friends to chase their dreams, and protecting one another from negativity. Too often, young people are made to feel like they have to struggle alone. The truth is no one makes it alone. Strong communities are built when people help each other rise. It truly takes a village.
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In a classroom where students of all ages are singing instead of memorizing, math is starting to make sense. Niah Spriggs, an African American educator in Oklahoma City, is using music to transform how her students learn math with the release of a new album, “Multiply the Beats: Math That Moves,” on all platforms, including YouTube, Apple, and Amazon Music, to name a few. (Visit the YouTube page to see a sample.)
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This Season, Gold Coast Jazz Society of South Florida invites you to join us for one of many fabulous evenings of jazz this season, with music featuring fresh new orchestrations by Grammy® award-winning arranger Steven Feifke; and performed by Ashley Pezzotti alongside The South Florida Jazz Orchestra.
Richard Roundtree, the legendary actor known as the film industry’s first Black superhero, has passed at 81. Roundtree’s transition came after he briefly battled pancreatic cancer.
Pompano Beach Arts was delighted to kick off a brand-new event, The Living Room Concert Series, in front of an appreciative crowd on October 12, 2023, with the soul-stirring, emotion-provoking, sonically pleasing fusion of jazz, funk, and soul sounds of The Harden Project, the core of which is singer/composer/author Ja’Nia Harden and musician/composer/arranger John Harden.
Tyler Perry is going above and beyond his offer to help an elderly South Carolina woman save a plot of land she has called home for decades from being poached by property developers.
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