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November 2022 Books by Black Authors We Can’t Wait to Read [UPDATED]
From colorful picture books to a highly-anticipated follow-up from Michelle Obama, we can't wait to get reading this November.
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Leonard “Hub” Hubbard, former bassist for The Roots, Dies at 62
Forner The Roots bassist Leonard “Hub” Hubbard passes away at age 62, after battling blood cancer.
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Spell 'Historic': Zaila Avant-Garde Is the 1st-Ever African American Scripps National Spelling Bee Champion
The 14-year-old is also the first student from Louisiana to win the competition and is a very talented—and Guinness World record-holding—basketball player.
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Hey Guys, The Coronavirus Made Me Realize That Maybe I Don't Hate Kenny G.'s Music
While many of us are responsibly stuck at home during this time of pandemic concern, the need for entertainment and mental stimulation is high. For many, that means scouring the catalogs of the various streaming services available to us, or rewatching classic movies and series. Perhaps it involves marathon games of Monopoly or making TikTok…
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Legendary Jazz Pianist McCoy Tyner Dead at 81
Another one of the greatest who ever did it has gone on to glory. Legendary jazz pianist McCoy Tyner is dead at age 81. The death of the free-flowing jazz giant, who played piano alongside John Coltrane, Donald Byrd and Art Blakey, was announced by family members via social media on Friday. “It is with…
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Somebody Found John Coltrane’s Lost Album Blue World and We’re All Better for It
John Coltrane is kind of a big deal. Over the course of a career that spanned over two decades, the legendary composer and saxophonist churned out classic albums like 1957’s Blue Train and 1964’s A Love Supreme, all while trying to kick a vicious heroin addiction and expanding the boundaries of what we knew jazz…
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‘A Love Supreme’: John and Alice Coltrane’s NY Home Named a National Treasure
For those of us still reeling from the closure of Harlem’s iconic Lenox Lounge, coincidentally, a place where the legendary saxophonist John Coltrane once played, there is good news today. We can take heart in the fact that John Coltrane’s Long Island, N.Y., home, the same home where he recorded his seminal, transcendent work, “A…
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Watch: Bringing John Coltrane Back to North Philadelphia
North Philadelphia is home to a new John Coltrane mural. But this isn’t the first mural of the legendary saxophonist to go up in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood of North Philly. The first mural, which sat near Coltrane’s former Strawberry Mansion home, was torn down in 2014 to make way for a new development. “The…
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The Black Christmas Music Debate: If ‘Santa Baby’ Isn’t on Your List, Your List Is a Fraud
I love Christmas … but I really love Christmas music. I’m the kind of guy who will start listening to the Yuletide classics immediately after Halloween—and only if I wait that long. While I love the Vince Guaraldi Trio’s “Christmas Time Is Here,” and I can appreciate Frank Sinatra’s “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,”…