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Jazz legend and band leader, Dizzy Gillespie, was born in 1917 in Cheraw, SC. He would become one of the genre's great ambassadors.

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POSTED: November 16, 2008, 5:53 am

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NStv DC video correspondent Jamal Spratley explores the meaning of change with the election of Barack Obama.

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