(ThyBlackMan.com) Duke Ellington, a giant in jazz history ... Black History Connection: “Take the ‘A’ Train” is a symbol of the Great Migration, when millions of African Americans moved ...

Edward Kennedy Ellington was born into the world on April 29, 1899 inWashington, D.C. Duke’s parents, Daisy Kennedy Ellington and James EdwardEllington, served as ideal role models for young Duke, and ...

When Boyd tries to persuade Duke to take a militant attitude ... “Once in San Francisco,” he said, “Ellington slept that way and when he got off the train he was so sleepy he got in a ...