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Tom Hanchett

News & Opinion
Tom HanchettFebruary 1, 2021

Photo of MLK in Charlotte Highlights Three Generations of Local History

“We must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.” Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave that advice in a 1967 speech in Atlanta, but it brings to my mind a photograph snapped here in Charlotte just a year earlier. On Sept. 21, 1966, Rev.…
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Music Features
Tom HanchettFebruary 4, 2020

Stuff Smith Is a Forgotten Legend Who Began in Charlotte

Jazz is in the air these days. Charlotte’s new Middle C Jazz nightclub, the Bechtler Museum’s sold-out monthly jazz evenings, the crowds of twenty-somethings at GottaSwing Charlotte’s weekly dances, all signal a fresh enthusiasm. Will the music that had its first national heyday back in the 1920s become one of…
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