Then themusicwouldstart and they would laugh and take each other'sarms and twirl over the floor, these old people, lost in the sepia-colored music I was hearing.
The earphones arrive a couple of weeks later in a metal clamshell case that, along with colored earpieces, conceals what would otherwise look something like a pair of hearing aides.
Benjamin Jealous, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, told the congregation of the Nazarene Congregational Church in Brooklyn that the civil rights group is hearing from its members who are NYPD officers.