rock and roll
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Halle Berry! Nia Long! 15 Times Black Actresses, Singers Are Mentioned in Popular Rap Songs
From Halle Berry to Kelly Price, these women received special shoutouts from rappers over the years.
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Best and Worst Black Moments of 2024
It was a whirlwind year with many good, bad ugly and uglier moments. Here’s our take on a 2024, one wrapped with everything that happened…for better or worse.
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The Perception Toward Black Musicians Still Hasn’t Changed
In a recent interview, Rolling Stone and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame co-founder Jann Wenner made disrespectful comments towards Black and female musicians.
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Music Icon Bobby Rush Spills the Tea on the Little Richard You Thought You Knew
As we celebrate Black Music month, The Root talks to Icon Bobby Rush about The real Little Richard
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Smells Like Tween Spirit: Nandi Bushell Is So Dope, Dave Grohl Wrote a Song About Her
Nandi Bushell is a rock star. If you’ve seen the 10-year-old’s animated drum renditions while scrolling your Twitter timeline, you know exactly who I’m talking about. Nandi’s dad John Bushell (also a musician) bonds with his daughter over their shared love for acts such as Queen, Jimi Hendrix, Amy Winehouse, Aretha Franklin, Bob Marley, the…
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Queer Black Woman Who Invented Rock ’n’ Roll
What we know as rock ’n’ roll did not exist before her. She came before Elvis and Johnny Cash. She preceded Chuck Berry and Little Richard.
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Eric Clapton Whitesplains His Racism. He Even Had a Black Girlfriend
I had no idea that Eric Clapton was once an avowed (rather than just a plain ole complicit) racist. In fact, I thought all those soulful white singers/rock ’n’ rollers from England loved black men, especially those who gave birth to their beloved (and quite fruitful—especially for white men) rock music. But, uh, not Eric…
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Chuck Berry, the Father of Rock ’n’ Roll, Dies at 90
Singer, guitarist and songwriter Chuck Berry, a giant in the history of rock ’n’ roll whose turbulent private life was marked by a rocky relationship with the legal system, died Saturday at the age of 90. The St. Charles County Police Department in Missouri confirmed Berry’s death in a Facebook post. Officers responded to a…