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Michael Stamper, a.k.a. Nick Stump, performs in Lexington, Kentucky. (Photo via Nick Stump Band Facebook page)
In 1987 the Metropolitan Blues All Stars were headliners for an Appalachian cultural gala in Chicago. It was a celebration of Appalshop that featured Roadside Theater, Fiddle King of the South Marion Sumner, renowned banjo player Lee Sexton, and screenings of Appalshop films. Met Blues was fronted by three guys who’d led their own bands earlier. (Hence All Stars.) Two of them, Rodney Hatfield and Mike Stamper, grew up in different East Kentucky coal towns and both came to the blues listening to the ubiquitous WLAC Nashville. (The band’s third vocalist, Frank Schaap, grew up in the Hamptons with a swimming pool. Played folk music.) Because it took a certain kind of boldness or tunnel vision to bring a white blues band from Kentucky to Chicago, the event’s producer kept urging Mike, stage name Nick Stump, to share what it was like coming up hardscrabble i
Red Tail Academy trains underserved youth and minorities for aviation careers
A local nonprofit is working to increase diversity in aviation.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. â The courage and valor of the first African American U.S. fighter pilots during World War II is impacting future generations of minority pilots in Kansas and Missouri.
Known as the Red Tails, the Tuskegee Airmen faced bigotry and segregation from their own country; but they didn t let it stop them from being the most successful squadron of U.S. fighter pilots to escort U.S. bombers into enemy territory.
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