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‘As long as our music touches people, we’re gonna keep on singing’: The Blind Boys of Alabama are coming to Iowa for two shows

The Blind Boys of Alabama’s decades-spanning career speaks to both the universal human condition — we are all just passing through this world, searching for connection — and the very specific experience of being Black and disabled in America.  This venerable gospel group endured brutal Jim Crow racism, embraced the defiant optimism of the Civil […]

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