Vocalist and music educator Tammy McCann has been named The DuSable Museum’s American Music Curator At Large. McCann wants to expand the museum’s footprint when it comes to music, and believes that learning about culture through music is one of the best ways people from different backgrounds and world views can come together and understand each other better. McCann lays out some of the ideas she has brewing for 2019-2020 exhibitions. 

Plus a new documentary shows that early childhood education, and an early life in a nurturing, stress-free environment can make a massive difference on an individual both mentally and physically later in life, and how paying closer attention to children aged 0-3 can mean billions of dollars saved by society in the long run.