The Cotton Club - Harlem Renaissance

During the Harlem Renaissance, the happening place to be was the Cotton Club, located in the heart of Harlem... unless you were black.
DUKE ELLINGTON - the history of the COTTON CLUB in Harlem (part 1 of 2)
Here's more about Ellington and the glory days of Harlem in New York City but with an emphasis on the legendary Cotton Club. (And also watch the adjoining cl...
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Brian Williams has been accused of many things, but being racist has not been one of them. Yet one of the stories Williams told whose authenticity has been called into question bears the hallmarks of subtle bigotry.

That story -- told over the years to various reporters, writers and others -- concerns the time Williams spent at the Ritz-Carlton in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina,

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