On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Larry Tye, historian, former reporter with the Boston Globe, former journalism professor, and author of ‘The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie Transformed America.’
Born within a few years of one another, they overcame racist exclusion and violence to become the most popular entertainers on the planet.
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