black music month playlist

  • Black Music Month Playlist No. 4: Damn! Damn! Damn!

    Black Music Month Playlist No. 4: Damn! Damn! Damn!

    Editor’s note: Every Friday for the month of June, aka African-American Music Appreciation Month, aka Black Music Month, we’ll be creating a Spotify playlist based on the news of the week. Check out the stories behind playlist No. 1,  playlist No. 2 and playlist No. 3. Real talk: This week was fucked up. There were…

  • We Looked at Kamala Harris’ Black Music Month Playlist and Here’s What We Found

    Kamala Harris, the junior Democratic U.S. senator from California, released a Spotify playlist in honor of Black Music Month on Tuesday, featuring 50 of her favorite tracks from black artists in the genres of rhythm and blues, jazz, gospel, hip-hop, rap, soul, pop, reggae and funk, allowing us a peek into her personality and what…

  • Black Music Month Playlist No. 3: All Eyez on Me

    Black Music Month Playlist No. 3: All Eyez on Me

    Editor’s note: Every Friday for the month of June, aka African-American Music Appreciation Month, aka Black Music Month, we’ll be creating a Spotify playlist based on the news of the week. Check out the stories behind playlist No. 1 and playlist No. 2. This week began with Bill Cosby’s legal team delivering a six-minute defense…

  • Black Music
Month Playlist No. 2: Cosby Ain’t the God We Made Him

    Black Music Month Playlist No. 2: Cosby Ain’t the God We Made Him

    Editor’s note: Every Friday for the month of June, aka African-American Music Appreciation Month, aka Black Music Month, we’ll be creating a Spotify playlist based on the news of the week. Check out the story behind last week’s playlist here. Talk about trials and tribulations. I don’t think the country has seen this much testifying…

  • Black Music Month Playlist No. 1: You Haven’t Done Nothin’

    Black Music Month Playlist No. 1: You Haven’t Done Nothin’

    To paraphrase Bruno Mars, American music is black music. When you consider that black people had a hand in creating or influencing just about every music genre—rock, pop, blues, R&B and even country—Bruno ain’t wrong. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter declared June to be Black Music Month in order to recognize the contributions that black…