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It Ain’t Got That Swing

From the March 2001 Print Edition

In 1987 President Reagan invited Miles Davis to a formal dinner at the White House. He went, but wasn’t impressed. “[White people in Washington] stay stupid and make me and a lot of other black people feel bad because of their ignorance. And the President sitting up there and don’t know what . . . . Continue Reading »