CULTURETECHLENSNicole Mitchell
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Nicole Mitchell moved to Chicago around 1990, joined the AACM in 1994, and became the organization's first woman president. She founded the Black Earth Ensemble, extending the AACM tradition through a Black feminist compositional practice.
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Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-person-026; source research type(s): person. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.
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- AACM Chicago (https://www.aacmchicago.org/guides/nicole-mitchell) (primary source)
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