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In 1948, Jerry Wexler, a music journalist for Billboard magazine, coined the term "rhythm and blues."
Every day at the discussion stage (The Commons) of the Smithsonian Inside Out program we have a session called "My Smithsonian."
Another day of near-record heat yesterday did not dampen the spirits of the Smithsonian Inside Out program participants.
Writer, director and actor, Roger Guenveur Smith, performs as the great American abolitionist, orator, and statesman Frederick Douglass.
Support the Folklife Festival, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, Cultural Vitality Program, educational outreach, and more.