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By STEVE PFARRER

Max Roach is celebrated as one of the most influential drummers in jazz history, a pioneer of Bebop who led groundbreaking ensembles in every decade of his long career. As a drummer and a composer, he’s credited with making drums a more expressive and...

By STEVE PFARRER

In the United States, the early 20th century has often been portrayed as a time of hope and excitement, in which the nation’s growing industrial power, improvements in mass communications, and advances in technology and science heralded a new era of...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

HOLYOKE — For the Rev. Theresa Temple, a pastor at the First Baptist Church in Holyoke, growing up as an African American in the segregated South meant there was also a segregated view of history.“There were two histories – the history you learned in...