The Black Lives Matter and social justice movements in the summer of 2020 had SFJAZZ doing some soul-searching. It put out a statement acknowledging systematic racism and its own biases that impacted Black musicians.
Her family moved to the Los Angeles area in the 1970s, a time when the Watts riots were still fresh in people's minds.
She liked music and was smitten as a nine-year-old when she saw Harpo Marx play the harp on the "I Love Lucy" show.When she was in her 30s that dream reawakened after she met a harp maker and signed up for classes. "She said there's a woman that you need to know because I can hear what you are trying to do. And there's a woman by the name of Dorothy Ashby," explained Muhammad.
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