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Jazz the Professor

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Sep 29

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#OTD Sept 29, 1975: WGPR-TV (Where God’s Presence Radiates) became the 1st Black-owned TV station in the U.S. The station, located in Detroit, MI, was founded by William Venoid Banks. Their permit was granted on June 1, 1985.
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#OTD Sept 29, 1975: WGPR became the 1st TV station in the U.S. owned & operated by African Americans. Located in Detroit, MI, founded by William Venoid Banks.

“It’s important for people to participate in defining themselves...integrating media was the highest priority”
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#OTD Sept 29, 1975: WGPR became the 1st TV station in the U.S. owned & operated by African Americans. Located in Detroit, MI, it was founded by William Venoid Banks.

“The greatest thing they did was the role that they played in developing so many people’s careers”
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Jazz the Professor

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Sep 28

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#OTD Miles Davis joined the ancestors (May 26, 1926– Sept 28, 1991). Trumpeter, bandleader, composer, influential jazz figure. His variety of musical directions over a 50yr career kept him at the forefront of major stylistic developments in jazz.

Bio Pt.1
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#OTD Miles Davis joined the ancestors (May 26, 1926– Sept 28, 1991). Trumpeter, bandleader, composer, influential jazz figure. His variety of musical directions over a 5-decade career kept him at the forefront of major stylistic developments in jazz.

Bio Pt.2
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#OTD Miles Davis joined the ancestors (May 26, 1926– Sept 28, 1991). Influential jazz figure. Quincy Thomas Troupe Jr, poet, editor, journalist & Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla, CA, wrote a comprehensive biography on Miles.
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Jazz the Professor

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Mar 14

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#OTD Marielle Franco was assassinated (July 27, 1979 - Mar 14, 2018). Brazilian politician, sociologist, feminist, socialist & human rights activist. She was an outspoken critic of police brutality & extrajudicial killings and paid for it with her life.
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#OTD Marielle Franco was assassinated (July 27, 1979 - Mar 14, 2018). Brazilian politician, sociologist, feminist, socialist & human rights activist. She was an outspoken critic of police brutality & extrajudicial killings and her views led to her murder.
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Jazz the Professor

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Mar 14

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#OTD Mar 14, 1964: Dallas, TX nightclub owner Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of President John F. Kennedy.
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#OTD Mar 14, 1964: Dallas, TX nightclub owner Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of President John F. Kennedy.

Video footage of Ruby shooting Oswald.
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#OTD Mar 14, 1964: Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of President John F. Kennedy. Dallas Times-Herald photographer Bob Jackson talks about his Pulitzer Prize winning picture capturing the moment Ruby shot Oswald.
Part.1
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Jazz the Professor

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Mar 14

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#OTD Fannie Lou Hamer joined the ancestors (Oct 6, 1917–Mar 14, 1977). Voting & women's rights activist, community organizer, civil rights movement leader & co-founder/vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party.

“The flag is drenched with our blood”
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#OTD Fannie Lou Hamer joined the ancestors (Oct 6, 1917–Mar 14, 1977). Voting & women's rights activist, community organizer, civil rights leader & co-founder/vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party, which she repped at the 1964 DNC.

LBJ was afraid of Sister Hamer
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#OTD Fannie Lou Hamer joined the ancestors (Oct 6, 1917–Mar 14, 1977). Voting & women's rights activist, community organizer, civil rights leader & co-founder/vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party.

“Some of y’all ain’t gonna like it but I’m just telling the truth”
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Jazz the Professor

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Mar 13

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#OTD Mar 13, 1914: James Reese Europe says his Clef Club Symphony Orchestra has the best Black musicians in NYC: “we colored people have our own music that is a part of us. It’s the product of our souls. It’s been created by the sufferings & miseries of our race.
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#OTD Mar 13, 1914 James Reese Europe, ragtime & jazz bandleader, arranger & composer, explains his Clef Club Symphony Orchestra as having the best Black musicians in NYC. When he joined the 15th Regiment & the WW I military band in the 1910s history was made.
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“The Jazz germ hit them and it seemed to find the vital spot. Loosening all muscles and causing what is known in American as an eagle rocking it”

#OTD Mar 13, 1914: James Reese Europe explains his Clef Club Symphony Orchestra has the best Black musicians in NYC.
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