Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

The Case for Reparations - The Atlantic - Ta-Nehisi Coates

An innovative setting of the African-American spiritual ‘Steal Away’ for trumpet and SATB choir.  This work combines the spiritual ‘Steal Away’ with the hymn ‘What a Friend we have in Jesus’ in a juxtaposition that should  challenge us when seen in the context of race relations in the US.  It was inspired by the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech.

The Trumpet Sounds

Ian David Coleman

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