Articles/Interviews
PBS, American Masters
How do you describe an artist like Roberta Flack?
NPR Music
50 years later, the celebrations and contradictions of 'Wattstax' still resonate
Recovering and reclaiming Black women's place in music history
Grammy.com
Wax Poetics
“The Willow Tree” singer Cleveland Francis embraced the term soul folk
UDiscover Music
‘Left of Center’: Suzanne Vega’s ‘Pretty in Pink’ Hit
‘How Long (Betcha’ Got a Chick on the Side)’: The Pointer Sisters’ Classic
‘My People…Hold On’: Eddie Kendricks’ Spiritual Anthem
The Best Undisputed Truth Songs: Funky Gems Worth Revisiting
Whitney Museum
”Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop”
Interviews with Kamoinge Workshop artists for the exhibit audio guide and producer/interviewer for short film on the group’s work
Vinyl Me Please
Liner notes for reissue of Lee Morgan’s Take Twelve
Liner notes for reissue of Yusuf Lateef’s The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef
Liner notes for Freddie Roach’s Brown Sugar
Artsy
Smithsonian Head Lonnie Bunch on Institutional Racism and the Duty of Curators
JSTOR Daily
Features
This Revolution Will Be Amplified: Interview with Black Country Music author, Francesca Royster
Why MLK Believed Jazz Was the Perfect Soundtrack for Civil Rights
Don’t Dress Your Whale in Galoshes: Free to Be You and Me at 50
Blog posts (selected pieces)
The Newport Rebels and Jazz as Protest
The First Black Woman to Perform at the Grand Ole Opry
The First Black-Owned Bookstore and the Fight for Freedom
CrimeReads
Black Power, Blaxploitation, & The Sounds of the Seventies
Murder Ballads Are A Window Into The History of Violence Against Women
Bandcamp
Soul Jazz’s Original Recipe: “Cookin’ with Jaws and the Queen”
Jazz Pianist Lafayette Gilchrist Brings Funk, Go-Go, and More to the Table on “Now”
Album of the Day: Robert Cotter, “Missing You”
Consequence of Sound
Top 10 Covers of ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’
Human Parts
She Shreds
Jennah Bell Carves the Courage In Her Work
Women’s History Month Series
California Magazine
You Should Know About Ida Jackson: California’s first Black educator, in her own words
Artist, Activist, and Astrophysicist Nia Imara Keeps Her Eyes on the Sky
Atlas Obscura (selected pieces)
Meet Rufus Harley, the First Jazz Bagpiper
Why British DJs From the ’60s and ’70s Kept Their Best Records Secret
Rappin’ Max Robot,’ the First Hip-Hop Comic Book
The Selenophone, a Short-Lived, Highly Flammable Sound-Recording System
A Dentist-Turned-Horticulturalist Made a Record Just for Plants
Sisters
Timeline
The first black-owned record label in the U.S. wanted to “uplift” black people through music
When the white establishment ignored these black photographers, the Kamoinge collective was born
Black Omnibus was a thoughtful response to a segregated and unequal America. Too bad it didn’t last
This woman shattered the gender barrier in pro baseball
Nearpod (selected pieces)
Billie Holiday
Downbeat