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Little-known 1922 rule bans jazz in New Orleans schools — and has long been ignored

Officials told The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate that the policy has racist origins, as its creators sought at the time to distance New Orleans schoolchildren from the African Americans who created the genre. The rule has been ignored for decades. ....

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