By Elizabeth Mainardi
Acclaimed author, composer and jazz saxophonist James McBride will bring his ideas and thoughts on heritage, identity and race to students on Thursday at 8 p.m. in Blackman Auditorium.
Author of the New York times Bestseller, “The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to his White Mother,” McBride hopes his presentation, a mixture of speaking and music, will leave students with ideas about how they can search for a place in the world.
“The important thing is for students to know that it’s OK to fail,” McBride said in an e-mail interview. “Failure teaches success
