She may not own a television, but the Grammy-award winning musician definitely has her favorite books and films.
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Daily Dose: Lizz Wright, “Barley” | Paste Magazine
‘We sing to remember home and to make ourselves at home in any place.’
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Stevie Wonder Reflects On Motown, God And Prince | NPR
It was hard to convey a message because I was in so much pain.
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Forgotten Black Women of Early Hollywood Take Center Stage at CAAM
Hollywood has long had a problem with representation and diversity, especially concerning anyone female and nonwhite.
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Kara Walker’s Next Act | Vulture
After the success of her sugar sphinx, the artist is a whole different kind of public figure — and figuring out a whole new approach to public art.
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LeVar Burton Is Being Sued by a Public Broadcasting Station Over Reading Rainbow | The Root
In today’s episode of Black People Can’t Have a Damn Thing, Not Even if We Played a Major Role in Building It From the Ground Up, actor LeVar Burton is being personally sued by a Buffalo, N.Y., public broadcasting station that wants to stop him from using a Reading Rainbow catchphrase on his new podcast.
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Raphael Saadiq Is the Most Underappreciated R&B Artist of All Time. Yeah, I Said It | VSB The Root
When was the last time you had a conversation about great artists and Raphael Saadiq’s name came up?
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In an Unused Harlem Church, a Towering Work of a ‘Genius’ | The New York Times
Julie Mehretu, a MacArthur Foundation “genius,” is executing a monumental new commission for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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Ailey Extension Dance Classes: Release your inner dancer | New York Amsterdam News
Have you ever sat in the audience at an Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performance during the magnificent dance company’s summer and winter seasons and thought wistfully, “I would love to try to do at least some of that!”
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Is It Jazz? Improvisation? Tyshawn Sorey Is Obliterating the Lines | The New York Times
NEW HAVEN — “I never listen to music passively,” the musician and composer Tyshawn Sorey said recently, nestled in an easy chair at his home studio here.
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