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Mar 29, 2018 · The Cold War and Civil Rights movement collide in this remarkable story of music, diplomacy and race. In 1955, as the Soviet Union’s pervasive propaganda about the U.S. and American racism ...
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May 5, 2018 · Playlist. A new PBS film documents the African-American musicians who spread good will for the U.S. overseas during the war, despite discrimination faced at home. Michel Martin talks to filmmaker...
The Jazz Ambassadors is a Peabody award winning, NEH-funded film about the role jazz artists played during the Cold War. Intended by the U.S. government to counter negative images of racism and anti-Black discrimination in the United States, these artists spoke honestly about the inequalities faced by African Americans in their country.
May 14, 2018 · This is how the “Jazz Ambassadors” program started, a topic that is explored in nuanced detail in a new documentary film, The Jazz Ambassadors, by Hugo Berkeley, which was first broadcast...
Sep 19, 2023 · Use VA Form 10-7959C or Formulario VA 10-7959c (español) when: You’re applying for CHAMPVA (Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs), and have other health insurance to declare as part of your VA Form 10-10d application.
In 1956, America announced a new Cold War weapon to combat the USSR; jazz musicians like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and Dave Brubeck, along with their racially-integrated band, would cross the globe to counter negative Soviet propaganda about racial inequality in America.
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The Cold War and civil rights collide in this remarkable story of music, diplomacy and race. Beginning in 1955, when America asked its greatest jazz artists to travel the world as cultural ...
