Category Archives: Music & Media Podcasts

Folk Songs, Spirituals, and Jazz

This short article accompanies the release of excerpts from my radio series Voices and Freedoms: A History of Jazz, based on my 1976 book of the same name.  The 16-part series played across the nation for five years in the … Continue reading

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The Quiet After Easter

Where are the pockets of quiet in our year?  Not now, as end of school year events—graduations, concerts, parties, summer planning—crowd our days and nights.  On March 26th this year, I held a Becoming the Beloved Community workshop and was … Continue reading

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Everything’s OK?

I have sometimes been called on to do the last sermon of the year, which is what the Video below shows: a sermon I delivered on the last Sunday of 2021, which might go down as one of the strangest … Continue reading

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