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New Music Festival Wants To Recreate Iconic ‘Black Woodstock!”
Summer of Soul: Can a seminal, end-of-summer music experience take over New York City more than 50 years after the original?
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Y'all Want to Reminisce About DMX? These Stars From the BET Awards 2021 Red Carpet Gon' Give It to Ya
Ashanti, Rapsody, Coi Leray, Moneybagg Yo and more reflect on their fondest DMX memories.
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Sundance 2021: Questlove's Directorial Debut Summer of Soul Is a Televised and Reminiscent Revolution [Updated]
In the hot and sweaty summer of 1969, the well-known music festival known as Woodstock happened in Bethel, New York. Everyone knew its name. One hundred miles away, there was another festival occurring that same summer with a little more seasoning…and a little more soul. And it was free to attend! It was called the…
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Black Woodstock: Questlove to Direct Documentary on Untold Story of the Harlem Cultural Festival
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson of The Roots (sidenote: for all the times The Root, the publication, gets mistaken for The Roots, the band, it would be dope if one time we, The Root, hosted a meta panel with live sounds from The Roots) will be making his directorial debut in the upcoming feature documentary titled, Black…
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Former Atlanta Braves Outfielder Still Missing
Former Atlanta Braves outfielder Otis Nixon was last seen leaving his Woodstock Ga., home Saturday morning. He headed out in his 2011 gray Range Rover to play golf, and no one has seen or heard from him since. The Woodstock Police Department took to Facebook asking for help, noting that Nixon, 58, never arrived at…