Nine-year-old Jeremiah Childress joins a drum circle at the Kwanzaa Festival in the Robert Crown Community Center. “Everybody should be able to join a drum circle, from the pauper to a president,” said Tony “Toneji” Garrett, who led the circle. “In the African villages of Mali, Guinea, where the first djembe drums were used, they were used to bring people to the center.” The circles still unite communities, he said. (Photo by Richard Cahan)
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