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Leonidas Berry and the Strength of Black Families
In 1981, after a successful career as an M.D. specializing in gastroenterology, Leonidas Berry wrote I Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now: Two Centuries of an Afro-American Minister’s Family. The title echoes a famous black spiritual, a testament of … Continue reading
Posted in Black Writers, Chicago Writing, Diversity & Multiculturalism, Social Change
Tagged Black Writing from Chicago, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Herbert Gutman, I Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, Judith Berry Griffin, Leonidas Berry, Pathways to College, Ralph Ellison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom
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A Radio Show on the Blues
“SOMETHING OLD, NEW, BORROWED…BLUE” The blues is America’s most fundamental roots music, still not only the bedrock of most of its popular music—rock, jazz, pop, soul, and more—but continuing to exert an even more powerful influence on world music. “Something Old, New, … Continue reading
Sterling Plumpp salutes Von Freeman
Von Freeman, one of Chicago’s titanic tenors, passed away this August, and his passing brought to mind the most beautiful lines ever written about him: “Be-Bop is precise clumsiness. Awkward lyricism under a feather’s control. A world in a crack. … Continue reading →