Sunday, December 16, 2012

The Sunday Mail. « Fred Klonsky

The Sunday Mail. « Fred Klonsky:


The Sunday Mail.

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Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie await arrest for performing before an integrated audience in Houston, Texas. 1955.
Jersey Jazz Man on heroes.
The Anarchist Soccer Mom asks for a national conversation about mental health.
Arming teachers in the classroom? No thanks. I knew this teacher who couldn’t figure out how to use the walkie-talkie we used for fire drills. I can’t imagine her handling a 38.
ALEC. The folks who brought you guns and school reform.
David Sirota. “The issue with it will be, politically, I think; the profile is white men,” Sirota said. “That’s a profile that’s not, essentially, in America allowed to be profiled. That’s the one profile in America that’s not allowed to be profiled.”
Witnessing how jazz had the potential to change racial attitudes, Jacquet told Granz that he would not play for a segre- gated audience in his hometown. “I didn’t want to come to my hometown after playing all around the