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Fall Preview 2020: From Auspicious Debuts to Unearthed Gems, 88 Reasons to Get Excited

The world ground to a halt, but the music kept coming.

Season of the Sequel: From Junk Magic to Code Girl, Some of Fall's Best Sounds Signal a Return

Meet the NEA Jazz Masters, Class of 2020, on Jazz Night in America

Drummer Andrew Cyrille and Vocalist Cecile McLorin Salvant Are 2020 Doris Duke Artists

By Nate Chinen • Sep 17, 2020

Drummer Andrew Cyrille and vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant are among the 2020 Doris Duke Artists, joining six other artists from the fields of theater and contemporary dance. The prestigious award comes with a prize of $275,000.

Stanley Crouch, Towering Jazz Critic, Dead At 74

By Ethan Iverson • Sep 16, 2020

Stanley Crouch, the lauded and fiery jazz critic, has died. According to an announcement by his wife, Gloria Nixon-Crouch, Stanley Crouch died at the Calvary Hospital in New York on Wednesday, following nearly a decade of serious health issues.

City Scenes: Musicians Philly's Lost In 2020

By Josh Jackson • Sep 16, 2020

Philadelphia lost seven great musicians in the first four months of 2020. As a matter of cultural endowment, the loss represents the equivalent of whole libraries reduced to ash. These elders were the children of auto mechanics, beauticians, restaurant workers, scientists, unionizers and ministers — people who added measurable value to their communities. Each of the departed took the lived experience of Black America and articulated it with an instrument. They nurtured generations of musicians in this calling.

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Controversy Continues As De Blasio Once Again Delays In Person Learning in NYC Schools

By Scott Pringle • 4 hours ago

New York City will now phase in the start of in classroom learning, an abrupt change. Mayor Bill de Blasio says he met for hours with school union leaders on Wednesday over many school concerns.

“Although they acknowledged that some real progress had been made that not enough had been made and more needed to be done.”

Loved and Lost Project: A Statewide Media Collaborative Celebrating Those Lost to COVID-19 in NJ

By Doug Doyle • Sep 17, 2020

The Loved and Lost project is a statewide media collaborative that launched in June to name and celebrate the lives of very resident in New Jersey lost to COVID-19. It's being coordinated by the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University and was originally a project of NorthJersey.com.

Newark's Krueger-Scott Mansion to Get Makeover, New Mission

By Janice Kirkel • Sep 17, 2020

The Krueger-Scott Mansion in Newark, built in 1888, is getting a makeover -- and a new mission in life.

The mansion will be restored and constructed to hold working areas, private offices and community gathering spaces. The work of local artists will be showcased and there will be exhibits about the mansion’s history.

Murphy, N.J. lawmakers agree to raise taxes on millionaires

By Joe Hernandez • Sep 17, 2020

New Jersey millionaires are in for a tax hike.

Gov. Phil Murphy and top lawmakers in the Democrat-controlled state legislature on Thursday announced a deal to raise the income tax rate on people making more than $1 million and give $500 rebates to middle-class families.

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