Michael Gigante, the clinician at the Brattleboro AIDS Project (now the AIDS Project of Southern...
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Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
Just before last year's general election, participants at the annual Vermont Vision for a Multicultural Future Conference talked up the possibility of the nation's first black president welcoming the first female commander-in-chief. Then Donald Trump won. Attendees at the 2017 event this past week could have lost themselves in present-day headlines reporting a proposed travel ban targeting Muslims, fights over Confederate monuments and a flood of workplace sexual harassment claims. Instead, they focused on the future. “The new resident in...
Back in the early 1990s, I was a teacher at a junior high school for the arts in East Harlem, N.Y. There was an elementary school in our building as well. It was a dangerous time and place. If the weather was good, I rode my bike - at a very crisp pace - to school. If I took the subway from my apartment in SoHo, I sprinted the three blocks from the subway station to the school. One day,
The Vermont Jazz Center welcomes legendary saxophonist Chico Freeman with an all-star quartet on Saturday, Oct. 15, at 8 p.m. Performing with Freeman will be pianist Luis Perdomo, bassist Kenny Davis, and drummer Kush Abadey. Although Freeman moved to New York from Chicago in the mid-1970s, his strong roots, family ties, and openness to a variety of musical styles continue to link him to the Windy City, according to a news release. The thread of Freeman's family-jazz connection extends directly...
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