âLEVASâ Is an Ambitious Jazz Rendition of a Song Widely Considered to Be the Black National Anthem
In 2018, local jazz trumpet virtuoso and The Art of Cool Project co-founder Al Strong washed his hands of Durhamâs high-profile Art of Cool Music Festival. It was a big shift in direction; that same year, though, he found himself spearheading something bigger than anything heâd ever recorded: a rendition of âLift Every Voice and Sing.â
Now, three years later, heâs released âLEVAS,â a breathtaking, eight-minute jazz rendition of the classic song. Itâs packaged with stunning visuals.
It all began in Raleigh during St. Augustineâs Universityâs 2018 annual CIAA Jazz Brunch, as the Al Strong Quartet intimately scorched and bopped across tunes as usual.
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Dreams Held Fast: A Timeline of Black History in the Triangle
Designed by Jon Fuller
From the nationâs first public university, built by enslaved people, to the demonstrators this summer who finally rid the Capitol grounds of its monuments to white supremacy, the history of the Triangle and its major towns and citiesâChapel Hill, Durham, and Raleighâis inextricably intertwined with the history of its Black residents.
Black history is American history, and Black History Week, established as a precursor to Black History Month by the author and historian Carter G. Woodson, was an early affirmation, and now an ongoing reminder, that Black Lives Matter.
DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) It has been 51 years since the first cars drove down a newly-constructed Durham Freeway, linking downtown Durham to the new Research Triangle Park. But the highway s construction came at a cost still felt today the freeway tore through homes, businesses, and up-ended lives.
The overwhelming majority of those up-ended lives were Black lives.
Anita Scott Neville thinks about her father every time she drives down Fayetteville Street, across the Durham Freeway overpass and onto Pettigrew Street. (My father) would pull up in his truck, park over here and say, Baby, watch the traffic, and we d go across the street here, Neville recalled as she pointed to block of Pettigrew where new upscale residences are now built with more on the way.