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Services were held Aug. 22 for Thurman Nathaniel Trapp, longtime
novelist, jazz radio host and activist in the African American community.
Trapp, 53, died Aug. 18 in his Ellicott Mall apartment after an illness
of several weeks. During the 1970s ands '80s, Trapp was host of "Street Life," a jazz program on WBFO-FM, broadcasting from UB. Trapp studied video production in recent years and taped TV programs for Buffalo Cable Access Media. He also had experimented with radio drama on WUFO-AM and had stories and essays published by the Arts Council of Buffalo and Erie County. A mentor for youths in the black community, he had served as a tutor in reading and writing for children at the Langston Hughes Institute, 25 High St. At the time of his death he was working to establish a youth artist award contest there.
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