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...And “1677”, all jagged notes, bluesy slippages and silences, recalls the French capture of the Isle of Gorée, which was to become the embarkation point for slaves shipped to the Americas....
...A late-set ballad, inspired, he said, by a visit to the Slave House on Senegal’s Gorée Island, captured anger and rebirth with delicate solo piano and Miller’s bittersweet bass clarinet....
...His mentor Youssou N’Dour adds thoughtful vocals to the stately “Goree”....
...David Horowitz, one-time liberal activist turned neo-con activist, placed ads in college newspapers that called reparations “racist”....
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