John, with his exuberant confidence, gave us jobs and invited us to be bold in our blackness.
GO TO STOREAs the concert began, Brian Prechtl, a percussionist who is one of the chairmen of the players’ committee, strode to the front of the stage and announced that the musicians had been shocked that afternoon to learn of the cancellation — and said that the musicians had been told that they would not be paid after June 16. The audience responded with loud boos.
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Nooria Nazhat, a spokeswoman for the ministry of education, said the government did not have any specific statistics to back up the Unicef report. But she added: “Every week we have a report about schools getting attacked in Afghanistan.”
