The lives of iconic leaders El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X) and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. have been dissected and analyzed by a host of scholars and writers of all strips ever since assasins’ bullets ended their lives in 1965 and 1968. Minister Malcolm and Rev. King’s seemingly contradictory approaches to…
In the Spring and Summer of 2018, two university professors – Dr. Carol Anderson of Emory University and Dr. Robin DiAngelo of the University of Washington, offered salient insights on America’s racial divide. These scholars pulled from in their respective best selling books, White Rage:The Unspoken Truth of our Nation’s Divide and White Fragility: Why…
During the mid-1990s, Wade in the Water: African American Sacred Music Traditions, a first-time collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and National Public Radio, began airing on hundreds of NPR affiliate stations throughout America. An ambitious series of 26 hour-long documentary programs, Wade explored 200 years of black sacred music, including spirituals, ring shouts, lined hymns, jazz, and gospel. The…
Award Winning “Golden Voice” narrator and actress Robin Miles narrated my audiobook, Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom – now on sale for half-price at Downpour.com. But Miles is also featured in the AudioFile Magazine articles below. Check them out, along with info about her latest audiobook read, and enjoy! Narrator Robin Miles on…
McCoy Tyner December 11, 1938 – March 6, 2020 I first heard McCoy Tyner perform “live” in concert during the 1970s. Some of my college friends and I had pooled our meager resources and tried to look (and act) older than we were so that we wouldn’t have any trouble getting into a Chicago nightclub…