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Louis Armstrong: ‘I Don’t Have No Fuckin’ Flag Other Than a Black Flag’

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With “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues,” filmmaker Sacha Jenkins recasts a legacy he never really knew.

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Dennis Stock

Once, for an article, I brought the popular New Orleans trumpeter Kermit Ruffins to a two-story red-brick home in the Corona section of Queens, New York that, since 2003, has been the Louis Armstrong House Museum.

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