An expansive lexicon of words, terms, concepts, and ideas that takes the multiplicity of Black life as its point of departure.Thinking from Black: A Lexicon ...

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For this special forum, Greg Tate’s esteemed friends and contemporaries Arthur Jafa, Questlove, dream hampton, and Jelani Cobb gather to discuss his life and work. Moderated by Daphne A. Brooks. Tate'...

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With a low and smoky voice, she conjured the blues tradition of her native Mississippi in both her own songs and in covers.

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A South Side business is offering free laundry service for storm-affected Gary families, while another fundraiser is collecting money for essentials as some residents face a second week without electr...

The blues guitarist and vocalist Sister Rosetta Tharpe performed at an empty station for TV.

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When jazz violin pioneer Stuff Smith left behind six minutes of sketches for a concerto, composer Dave Soldier set out to complete what he had started. He shares how he transformed the fragment into a...

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Patrick Gleeson, a pioneering synthesist, composer, producer and engineer whose work helped establish synthesizers in jazz, experimental music and film, died July 19, 2026, at the age of 91.

Some of my artwork from the 1980s. Done without the assistance of A.I. The later two were shown at the Schomburg in NY for an Afrofuturist exhibit. They interpretations of a photograph that shot of Ar...