“We Insist” on the healing powers of music
In the wake of the recent horrifying and consequential days in America’s history, like always, we can turn to the healing power of music.
In 1960, when spontaneous sit-in protests by African-American students in Greensboro, North Carolina led to the involvement of Martin Luther King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the jazz and cultural critic Nat Hentoff wrote that “Negroes throughout the country – and many whites – were surprised and stimulated by the effectiveness of these direct, mass action, nonviolent techniques.”
...July 12th, 2016
