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RocMusic, a partnership of the Hochstein School of Music & Dance, the Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester), the Eastman Community Music School, the Rochester City School District, the City of Rochester, and the Rochester Philharmonic...

As Hollywood’s biggest night looms and the Academy Award predictions pour in, you may find yourself feeling out of the Oscars loop. Maybe you don’t like awards shows but are being dragged to a viewing party. Perhaps you aren’t sure about this year’s...

Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at this year's Academy Awards, Raoul Peck's extraordinary "I Am Not Your Negro" uses as its framework an unfinished 30-page manuscript by author and essayist James Baldwin. The book proposal was started in 1979...

ABC (13 WHAM) Rochester, N.Y. – One in five students in the Rochester City School District was suspended in 2012 – sometimes for petty behavior, according to the District. But changes to the code of conduct could be on the way, and could change what...

The Rochester City School District enrolls just under 30,000 students, 61 percent of whom are African American and 25 percent of whom are Latino. [There are approximate 10,000 school-aged white residents of the city, two-thirds of these are not enrolled...