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Truth's Rightful Place on the Hill
She never learned to read or write, and the only known example of her signature seems to spell “Sonnog.” The only photographs are of her in old age, high cheekbones and strong features, her tight curls covered in a white bonnet. Isabella Baumfree — she didn’t call herself Sojourner Truth until she was 46 —…
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Hip-Hop's Magical Year
Twenty years ago, hip-hop music was in its Golden Age. Recently Rolling Stone listed the “15 Albums that Made Rap Explode.” All were works released in ’88, and all laid the seeds for hip-hop’s dominance of popular music years later. From the political and sonic boom of Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions…
Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
