Humanitarian Causes
In 2002 Nat Hentoff became a member of the Board of Directors of The Jazz Foundation of America. He has worked with the foundation to help save homes and lives of America's elderly jazz and blues musicians, including musicians who survived Hurricane Katrina. Hentoff has written multiple articles to draw attention to the plight of America's pioneering musicians of jazz and blues. These articles were published in The Wall Street Journal and the Village Voice.
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