ATLANTA (AP) — Hip-hop star Yasiin Bey took the stage at the ONE Musicfest for what appeared to be the last performance of his career.
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Donald Glover Is First Black Director To Win An Emmy In Comedy | HuffPost
Glover is unstoppable.
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Was Lead Belly a protest singer? A conversation with NMAAHC director Lonnie Bunch III | Folkways
Lead Belly is “the hard name of a harder man,” said Woody Guthrie of his friend and fellow American music icon who was born Huddie Ledbetter (c. 1888–1949).
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Esperanza Spalding’s Pop Culture Loves | Smithsonian Magazine
She may not own a television, but the Grammy-award winning musician definitely has her favorite books and films.
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Solange Announces Hurricane Harvey Benefit Concerts | The Root
“I’m committed to partnering with organizations on the ground in Houston and making contributions to uplift the city that raised me with so much love.”
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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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Detroit Jazz Festival delivers jazz for the ages | Michigan Chronicle
And every year, for the past 38 years, Detroit has hosted what has become not only the largest free jazz festival in the world, but also, I would argue, the most authentic.
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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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