Feb 10 2012
Latin Jazz Artists Join Activists To Protest Grammys
On Sunday the 54th GRAMMY Awards ceremony presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences will be held in Downtown Los Angeles. While artists like Kanye West, Adele and the Beach Boys are ushered into Staples Center, outside the awards, demonstrators including musicians, community leaders and fans will be demanding the reinstatement of 31 music categories slashed last …
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At the age of only fifteen, Eddie Joseph, a high school honors student in the Bronx, New York, joined the Black Panther Party. It was the late 1960s, and Eddie, who renamed himself Jamal, found himself, within a year, as part of the group of Black Panthers known as the Panther 21. The Panther 21 had been arrested on multiple …
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