The Portland Jazz Festival, from PDX Jazz, celebrates Black History Month Feb. 18-March 1 with a series of concerts and events presented over two weeks every February. Dedicated to preserving America’s indigenous art form by presenting internationally recognized jazz masters alongside local musicians, the festival includes education and outreach programs that extend into Portland’s schools and […]
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Stumbling Through the Sixties
Former professor and neophyte scribe Howard Flomberg’s Stumbling Through the Sixties is a memoir covering the author’s childhood, young adulthood and experiences and involvement in the Civil Rights Movement and serving in Southeast Asia with the Air Force. Living through the best and the worst of life as he ‘stumbled through the sixties,’ Flomberg started […]