Randy Luce '76 — “Black & Tan Fantasy”

“Black and Tan Fantasy” is the title of a song written by Duke Ellington and Bubber Miley in 1927. The racial discord through the early 20th Century came to a head by the 1960s. Much like the song, the story alternates between two men—one White, one Black—as they journey through one of the most fraught and disturbing periods of US history, one that remains largely unresolved even sixty years later.