The local host of NPR’s All Things Considered on WNYC, journalist Jami Floyd was biracial before that term existed: “I was very very lonely as a child because I was a biracial kid…[but] there was no biracial.” A conversation about race, refugees, and a Raggedy Ann turned Raggedy Andy – not a metaphor – at JCC Harlem with music from Valerie and Ben Turner, also not metaphoric but actual splendid musicians.

•  PERSON: Myrlie Evers–Williams
•  PLACE: Luwani Refugee Camp
•  THING: Lewis, a doll
•  RANDY’S PERSON: William Lloyd Garrison