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The Vanguard Theater Company gets a Michael Jordan community grant, a review of AIR, and Terence Blanchard talks about his "Champion" opera

By Doug Doyle
Published April 8, 2023 at 5:37 AM EDT
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One of Michael Jordan Brand's community grants in 2023 went to the Vanguard Theater Company in Montclair
Michael Jordan Brand's Community Grant Program
One of Michael Jordan Brand's community grants in 2023 went to the Vanguard Theater Company in Montclair

On the April 8 edition of the WBGO Journal...

We’ll get a quick peek into Terence Blanchard’s new opera “Champion” about the tragic story of boxer Emile Griffith

Host Doug Doyle chats with Janeece Freeman Clark, Producing Artistic Director of the Vanguard Theater Company in Montclair after the non-profit organization recently won a community grant from Michael Jordan’s Brand program looking for solutions to improve Black lives in their neighborhoods...

Film Critic Harlan Jacobson reviews AIR, about Nike’s shoe-signing of Michael Jordan…

and Jon Kalish takes us to a different kind of Passover seder with auto writers

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Doug Doyle
Doug Doyle has been News Director at WBGO since 1998 and has taken his department to new heights in coverage and recognition. Doug and his staff have received more than 250 awards from organizations like PRNDI (now PMJA), AP, New York Association of Black Journalists, Garden State Association of Black Journalists and the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists.
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