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February 28: Sarah Vaughan 
February 25: Paul Robeson 
February 23: Marian Anderson 
February 22: Berry Gordy 
February 20: Duke Ellington 
February 19: Nina Simone: The Power of Protest Through Music 
February 18: Bessie Smith: Jazz’s First Superstar 
February 17: Thomas A. Dorsey 
February 16: Ma Rainey 
February 15: John Coltrane 
February 14: Scott Joplin 
February 12: Art Tatum 
Fatoumata Diawara: A Fusion of Tradition and Modernity 
February 11. Ella Fitzgerald 
February 8: Louis Armstrong 
February 2: Mahalia Jackson 
Sylvester: Beyond the Gimmick | 1980-1-1 
The Ntu Sound Chamber: A Spiritual Jazz Journey with WDR Big Band and Nduduzo Makhathini 
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Part 3. – Miles Davis and the Evolution of Jazz Fusion from Classical Roots 
Part 2. — How the Modern Jazz Quartet Blended Jazz and Classical Music to Create Something Timeless 
Part I. Blending Jazz and Classical Music: Schuller, Davis, and MJQ 
Introducing the Series: Jazz at the Crossroads of Innovation 
🎉 Happy Birthday to the Legendary James Mtume! 🎶 
February 26: Sidney Poitier 
February 25: Paul Robeson 
February 6: Lorraine Hansberry 
George C. Wolfe: Shaping American Theater with Unapologetic Truth 
James Augustus Van Der Zee — Harlem Renaissance Historian 
February 4: Augusta Savage 
February 1: Jacob Lawrence 
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After the Dance, My Life with Marvin
May 20, 2015, 7pm Arts Horizon LeRoy Neiman Arts Center 2485 Frederick Douglass Blvd Harlem A searing memoir of love, drugs, sex, and old-school R&B,... Read More
Youth Making Media History
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Saturday, May 23, 12:00pm to 3:00pm The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Media Lab For teens and young adults, ages 14-22 1040 Grand Concourse Bronx... Read More
From Binaries to Bridges: Black Liberation
Monday, May 18, 2015, 6:30 PM Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 515 Malcolm X Blvd New York How did racialized notions of criminality... Read More
Frieze Art Fair
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May 14, 2015 – May 17, 2015 Randall’s Island Park Manhattan The fourth edition of the New York art fair will bring together over 190... Read More
Art Show: The Prophecy
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Wednesday, May 6, 2015 through May 17, 2015 Amphitheater at The Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center at Film Society of Lincoln Center 144 West 65th... Read More
The Makanda Project
May 12, 2015, 8:00 and 9:30 pm New York Baha’i Center Gillespie Auditorium 53 East 11th Street (between University Place & Broadway) Manhattan The Makanda Project... Read More
Symposium: “Revising Revisionism”
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Sunday, May 17, 11 am-6 pm Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor Free with Museum admission “Revising Revisionism” examines the intersection of biography,... Read More
DanceAfrica 2015
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May 22, 2015—May 25, 2015 Peter Jay Sharp Building 321 Ashland Place & BAM Howard Gilman Opera House Brooklyn After more than 30 years, DanceAfrica is... Read More