Nora Holt was the first Black person in the United States to earn a master’s degree in music. A prolific composer and a club-hopping socialite, she once wrote a 42-page work for a 100-piece orchestra.
Being something of a smart aleck, I’ve sometimes joked that while I may look white, actually I’m Irish. All eight of my great-grandparents were born there. Indeed, there was a time ...
In the mid-1940s, Black soldiers returning home to the South after bravely serving in World War II were abused by a culture fat on Jim Crow that still deemed them fit to die for their country but ...