The 217 Today Podcast

217 Today: How jazz music helped bring unity to a South African university

Kimberly Schofield and Stephanie Mosqueda
 
Darius and Catherine Brubeck helped bring a jazz education program to South Africa in the 1980s.

Darius and Catherine Brubeck helped bring a jazz education program to South Africa in the 1980s. Omar Badsha

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Monday, April 21, 2025

Today's headlines:

  • A single-engine plane crash in Coles County has killed two women and two men from Wisconsin.
  • University of Illinois students gathered in Urbana on Friday to support the right to protest.
  • Some central Illinois schools have taken steps to ban phone use in school, even as the state considers wider restrictions.
  • A recent study from Northwestern University found that incarceration has long-lasting effects on young people as they grow into adults.
  • The Fighting Illini softball team lost all three games in its Easter weekend series against Purdue.

In today's deep dive, we'll listen to a conversation with Darius and Catherine Brubeck about their book, which follows the path to establishing a jazz education program in apartheid-era South Africa.

217 Today is produced by Stephanie Mosqueda. Reporting today contributed by Reginald Hardwick, Emily Hays, Braden Fogerson, Mawa Iqbal, Jim Meadows and Kimberly Schofield.