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A New Membership Club Bets on Black Business
  + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( Brian Josephs | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Marva and Myriam Babel spent much of the past few years thinking about the concept of a space, especially how to sustain one in a gentrifying borough. Now that they have a new one, a membership club in Brooklyn called Babel Loft, they have been mulling over how to fill it. equipment atop white marble, could be a work space during the day and a dance spot by night. Another left turn brings visitors back to the entrance facing the main area, as if they had gone through one rotation of a vinyl record, Marva Babel pointed out. “Every place will be intentional, and that’s a work in progress,” Myriam Babel (pronounced “babble”) said after the tour.
Persons: Marva, Myriam Babel, Dick Gregory, Babel, ” Myriam Babel, “ That’s, Locations: gentrifying, Brooklyn, Questlove
White jazz artists were antiracists before the term was inventedMany of the tributes to Bennett mentioned his disdain for bigotry. Many White jazz artists were antiracists, long before the word was invented. Frank Sinatra, Bennett’s musical mentor, recorded with and relentlessly championed Black jazz artists like Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie. He hired a Black jazz bassist, Eugene Wright, and refused to play in segregated venues. There are countless photos of a beaming Bennett hanging out with Black jazz artists.
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