Audubon Ballroon (he/him)Growing list of those born or died on May 30 in any year
Le Sony'r Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993), better known as Sun Ra, was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for
his experimental music, "cosmic" philosophy, prolific output, and theatrical performances. For much of his career, Ra led The Arkestra, an ensemble with an ever-changing name and flexible line-up.
Menelik Shabazz (30 May 1954 – 28 June 2021) was a Barbados-born [british] film
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director, producer, educator, and writer
Ex-U.S. Marine [Richard Gregory Davis] Dies After Being Tasered by Rochester, NY [pig] Thomas Frye [in 2015]
Count Me In released in 2021
mentions Benny Goodman but not that he culturally appropriated #blackmusic so I rated this at 1
"We
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can trace the starting point of music genres whitewashing to the 1930s, when a white man named Benny Goodman was hailed as the ‘King of Swing’.
Source: https://theboar.org/2018/06/is-whitewashing-music-a-problem/
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