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November 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"Reagan is the Pres but I voted for #ShirleyChisholm" -- Biz Markie

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November 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The #JimiHendrix Experience - Purple Haze (Live at the Atlanta Pop Festival, 1970)

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze (Live at the Atlanta Pop Festival)
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November 27, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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“There was a world of junkies and winos, pool hustlers and prostitutes, women and family screaming inside my head, trying to be heard.”

A Nigger Un-Reconstructed: The Legacy of #RichardPryor
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A Nigger Un-Reconstructed: The Legacy of Richard Pryor by Mark Anthony Neal
“Unreconstructed Black men don’t have the manners of their reconstructed ‘Negro’ brethren, who are always trying to put a ‘civilized’ face…
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December 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
"Of the character of “Benson,” Guillaume wrote, “For a Black man the material was complex. The character was irreverent. The question was, how to express such irreverence?…I saw Benson as Mantan Moreland’s revenge...”

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“I’m the Head the Nigger in Charge…”: The Legacy of Robert Guillaume by Mark Anthony Neal
The above quote is taken from the film Lean On Me (1989), a biopic of New Jersey educator Joe “bat man” Clark. Ostensibly a star turn for…
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December 1, 2025 at 1:50 AM
When A Byrd Flew To North Carolina Central
University

Jazz trumpeter #DonaldByrd pioneered jazz education programs at Historically Black Colleges.

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When A Byrd Flew To North Carolina Central University
Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II aka Donald Byrd is probably most remembered as a Detroit City born Hard Bop maestro. In the mid-1970s Byrd began to collaborate with the Mizell Brothers -- Larr...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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“in my case, that meant singing like a horn player. I’d always been a John Coltrane fan—he was from Philly; you know, and he told me once he wanted to be a singer and that’s why he played the way he did. Well, I sang the way he blew."
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Am I Black Enough For You? The Legacy of Billy Paul by Mark Anthony Neal
Billy Paul was a grown man of 37 years-old when he registered his first and only Pop hit with the classic “Me and Mrs. Jones.” But to think…
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December 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM