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February 16, 2023

Black and white portrait of Louis Armstrong singing on stage, Carnegie Hall, New York, New York, circa February 1947. (GPA Photo Archive / William P. Gottlieb / Library of Congress)

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The Lessons of 1989: Freedom and Our Future