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Why New Editionâs breakout success meant so much to kids like me growing up in Roxbury
When some neighborhood teens from Orchard Park proudly put Roxbury on the national map for music, Dart Adams felt seen.
By Dart AdamsUpdated February 18, 2021, 11:31 a.m.
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When I was growing up in Bostonâs South End/Lower Roxbury neighborhood, music was a crucial part of our everyday lives. At home, my sister and brothers would go up and down the dial on our stereos and boom boxes, switching between WILD, KISS 108 FM, WRBB, WERS, WBCN, WTBS (now WMBR), and WHRB. Talent shows like the Hollywood Talent Nite competitions â thrown by Maurice Starr in venues like Roscoeâs Lounge or The Strand Theatre â were as popular in inner city Boston as I imagined high school football was in Texas. The competitive circuit gave the world dancers like Wondertwins Billy and Bobby McClain; singer Margo Thunder; and legendary jazz drummer To
In December of 1980, the jazz musician and activist Hugh Masekela was set to return to South Africa for the first time in twenty years. His friend Vic Moloi got him on the phone and told him it was time. It was time for him to return to the country his global liberation work had gotten him banned from.
Hugh Masekela performing at SOBs NYC, July 9th, 1998. Photo by David Corio.
Masekela left South Africa 20 years earlier. Shortly after the Sharpeville Massacre.
It happened on March 21st, 1960, in the South African township of Sharpeville, when a day of demonstrations against pass laws wore on. The pass laws were created to – among other things – segregate the population and allocate the labor of migrants. The laws most adversely impacted Black African citizens, who would have to carry passbooks when venturing beyond the borders of their homeland. Pass Laws were one of the defining features of South African Apartheid.
A BEAUTIFUL RESISTANCE
People used to say Jaeâda Turner was stuck in Boston.
Because Black folk from outside of the city often see it as a place to pass through but not plant roots. Those people are not from here.
Turner isnât trapped. Sheâs at home.
âHaving to defend Boston is a real sport,â Turner says. âAs a student at Northeastern, people coming from New York, California, and all across the country, I think they honestly love to hate Boston. Itâs like a little club. Itâs not cool if you say youâre from Boston.â
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