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In its musical moments, Ryan Coogler's vampire blockbuster makes a powerful statement about Black culture, ancestry, and art.
The Delta Blues Museum tells the story of sharecroppers turned legends, handmade guitars, and the raw sound that traveled ...
Memphis music producer Lawrence “Boo” Mitchell recruited area musicians to contribute what he calls “authentic” sounds to the ...
Although Imani Perry has long chronicled Black life with an expansive eye, her writings since 2018 have covered an especially ...
I really don’t think any of us can quite understand the effect that the blues had on mainstream music ... I mean it’s a famous peace of footage now, of him in a French nightclub in black and white you ...
Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker has responded to criticism from fans that the show is full of "famous people now". The dystopian anthology series, which began life as a Channel 4 show ...
Duffy released her fifth studio album "Dirt Woman Blues", produced by renowned Grammy winner Chris Goldsmith (Ben Harper, Blind Boys Of Alabama) and the seminal guitarist Marc Ford (of The Black ...
A lot of ink has been spilled about the importance of a good white T-shirt, but the best black T-shirts for men? Those are the unsung heroes of your drawer. Unlike the always-approachable ...
Cleveland’s story as an early torchbearer of rhythm and blues begins in the late 1940s ... t play the so-called “race records” of Black artists, but Freed exuberantly brought this music ...
View of the "Paris Noir" exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris Stéphane Mouchmouche / Hans Lucas / AFP via Getty Images An exhibition in Paris is celebrating the work of Black artists who ...
Made famous in Southside Chicago and beyond ... who moved from Alabama as part of the Great Migration of Black Americans. While that restaurant, H&H, served chicken feet and dumplings, Pierce ...
Tallahassee's state capital had a famous black bear run-in in 2007. Wildlife officers had to shoot a tranquillizer dart into a 200-pound male bear that wandered into town and up a tree near the ...