There may be a tongue-in-cheek aspect to Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra’s album, 40 Acres and a Burro (Zoho Music - 2011). The title suggests, as O’Farrill explains, the so-called “settlement” which newly-emancipated African Americans received at the end of the Civil War as well as the stereotypical manner in which the Latino population is viewed by the rest of the American population. But perhaps the State of the Union may not [...]