Everybody get together
Submitted by Secret Society
In the spirit of advancing our ongoing National Conversation on Race (and I have to say, I was not previously aware that large numbers of Americans were so willing to defend “I didn’t like his attitude” as a legitimate justification for the police arresting someone on his own property), my Pulse colleague Joe Phillips tackles one of the thornier issues surrounding this year’s CMA Grants — what does it mean when one of the only comissioning programs devoted to jazz doesn’t award any grants to African-American artists this year? Go read.
(It’s also kind of amusing that Joe’s previous post was — literally — about mending fences.)
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