Category Archives: Featured Posts
Ornette Coleman: Lessons in Freedom (excerpt)
This is the first of 16 short excerpts from my radio series Voices and Freedoms: A History of Jazz. Based on my book of the same name, the series (and book) were produced at the University of Virginia in the … Continue reading
Ronald L. Fair: “We Can’t Breathe”
May 2020 Update: Another “I-Can’t-Breathe” incident. I could not watch the video of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 26, 2020. But I heard it while my wife described to me what she was seeing: a … Continue reading
Posted in Black Writers, Chicago Writing, Diversity & Multiculturalism, Featured Posts
Tagged #blacklivesmatter, Black Writing from Chicago, Dontre Hamilton, Eric Garner, Ferguson, Haki Madhubuti, Hog Butcher, Laurence Fishburn, Leanita McClain, Many Thousands Gone, Michael Brown, Movie: Cornbread-Earl-and-Me, Philando Castile, Ronald L. Fair, We Can't Breathe
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Songs by DAN GUZMAN: “CBS”
“CBS” (COOL BLACK SICKNESS) a song DAN GUZMAN co-wrote and performs with Brad Hoskins. Fat Cats, Moses in the desert with the Great I Am, bleeding seas, and things tumbling from the sky. Apocalyptic dread. Cool grooves. It not only sounds good—it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Featured Posts, Music & Media Podcasts
Tagged apocalypse, CBS, Cool Black Sickness, Dan Guzman, ecology, Great I Am, Moses
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