Tag Archives: Black History

Reviews: How Motown Music Upheld Civil Rights

BBC (September 30, 2024): Paid In Full: The Battle for Black Music documents the extent of the historic injustice suffered by the music industry’s Black artists, including the disparity of profits received by them, despite having created the records that have driven the fabric and culture of popular music – from jazz and rock and roll to soul and rap.

Features interviews with Black titans of the music industry Cadence Weapon, Chaka Khan, George Clinton, Monie Love, Nile Rodgers, Gloria Gaynor, Ice T, Master P, and Smokey Robinson.

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Arts/Politics: The Atlantic Magazine – December 2023

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The Atlantic Magazine – December 2023 issue: For the first time since the publication of our first series of stories on Reconstruction, in 1901, The Atlantic is examining “the enduring consequences of Reconstruction’s tragic fall at a moment—yet another moment—when the cause of racial progress faces sustained pressure”…

This Ghost of Slavery

A play of past and present

By ANNA DEAVERE SMITH

The Questions That Most Need Asking

The Atlantic revisits Reconstruction

.By JEFFREY GOLDBERG

Why Is America Afraid of Black History?

No one should fear a history that asks a country to live up to its highest ideals.

By LONNIE G. BUNCH III

How Black Americans Kept Reconstruction Alive

The federal government abandoned Reconstruction in 1877, but Black people didn’t give up on the moment’s promise.

By PENIEL E. JOSEPH