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My father taught me about jazz, poetry, and philosophy, but he couldn’t show me how to be Black and a Red Sox fan.

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Birth of a Nation” (2025) by Stan Douglas. The Canadian artist remakes a sequence from the 1915 movie with new ...

Born in Harlem and raised in Brooklyn, McClain grew up tickling the ivories and belting out ballads — performing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and singing with the All-City Schools Choir.