The Cavalcade of Jazz, a trailblazing music festival, was once the "crown jewel" of summer entertainment in Black L.A. The man who founded it was just as interesting. Leon Hefflin was a dreamer, a tinkerer, a serial entrepreneur and a breaker of barriers.
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Happy 92nd birthday to saxophonist & composer Benny Golson—one of only two surviving musicians from the famous “Great Day In Harlem” photo of jazz legends from 1958. (The other one is Sonny Rollins.)
I learned today that a healthcare worker I see every week for my TBI recovery has refused the vaccine. In the moment I wasn’t angry, I was incredibly sad.
On a day for the history books, @TheAmandaGorman delivered a poem that more than met the moment. Young people like her are proof that "there is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it; if only we're brave enough to be it."
The memorial to the victims of COVID-19, on the day the U.S. surpassed 400,000 deaths: lights are lit from the Reflecting Pool near the Lincoln Memorial to communities across America.
As you honor my father today, please honor my mother, as well. She was the architect of the King Legacy and founder of @TheKingCenter, which she founded less than three months after Daddy died. Without #CorettaScottKing, there would be no #MLKDay. #MLK#BelovedCommunity
“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, & you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be…This is the inter-related structure of reality.” -MLK #RadicalKing#MLKDay
“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.” -Martin Luther King Jr. #RadicalKing#MLKDay