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Raphael Saadiq Is the Most Underappreciated R&B Artist of All Time. Yeah, I Said It | VSB The Root

August 14, 2017August 14, 2017African American Art, African American Entertainment ...

When was the last time you had a conversation about great artists and Raphael Saadiq’s name came up?

Is It Jazz? Improvisation? Tyshawn Sorey Is Obliterating the Lines | The New York Times

August 10, 2017August 10, 2017African American Art, African American Music ...

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.

Smithsonian Museum Taking African Americans to Paris | Afro

July 19, 2017July 19, 2017Uncategorized

Want to go on a luxurious trip to Paris with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture where you’ll learn about the city that famously embraced African-American expats?

Nina Simone in Liberia | Guernica

July 12, 2017African American Culture, African American History ...

The singer went to Africa, she said, in search of peace, or a husband, or maybe the feeling of home.

‘I Am the Blues’ opens at Quad Cinema July 12 – New York Amsterdam News

July 7, 2017African American Music, African American News ...

“I Am the Blues,” directed by Daniel Cross available on VOD July 12, takes the viewer into the deep backroads of the South, visiting the authentic juke joints and listening to the stories of the people who play, live and know the real roots of the blues.

When gospel sermons came on the phonograph – The Conversation

July 4, 2017African American History, African American Music ...

The first truly African-American musical form, the “Spirituals,” took shape in the 17th and 18th centuries within the generations of slaves born into the tough American experience. Music was a daily part of their survival and sustenance.