Remembering Pianist and Composer Randy Weston
At the recent Detroit Jazz Festival, I showed vocalist Cecile McLorin Salvant a photo I took of Randy Weston last
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More Than a Song: Giving Aretha a Little R-E-S-P-E-C-T
No matter whether one came of age in the sixties, the seventies, the eighties, or even the nineties, Aretha Franklin
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Sun Ra Speaks About the Trial of Angela Davis
Anthony Reed, in his recent article on the grammar of utopia and freedom in the music of jazz performer Sun
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Langston Hughes on Film: An Interview with Darren Canady and Randal Maurice Jelks
In today’s post, University of Kansas PhD Candidate, Imani A. Wadud, interviews Darren Canady and Randal Maurice Jelks on their new
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Black Male Genius and the Distortion of Black History
In the aftermath of Kanye West’s recent media blitz, there was considerable media attention paid to his parroting and amplifying
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