When A Byrd Flew To North Carolina Central University Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II aka Donald Byrd is probably most remembered as a Detroit City born Hard Bop maestro. In the mid-1970s Byrd began to collaborate with the Mizell Brothers -- Larr...

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Jazz trumpeter #DonaldByrd pioneered jazz education programs at Historically Black Colleges.

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A Nigger Un-Reconstructed: The Legacy of Richard Pryor by Mark Anthony Neal “Unreconstructed Black men don’t have the manners of their reconstructed ‘Negro’ brethren, who are always trying to put a ‘civilized’ face…

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“There was a world of junkies and winos, pool hustlers and prostitutes, women and family screaming inside my head, trying to be heard.”

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Am I Black Enough For You? The Legacy of Billy Paul by Mark Anthony Neal Billy Paul was a grown man of 37 years-old when he registered his first and only Pop hit with the classic “Me and Mrs. Jones.” But to think…

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“in my case, that meant singing like a horn player. I’d always been a John Coltrane fan—he was from Philly; you know, and he told me once he wanted to be a singer and that’s why he played the way he did. Well, I sang the way he blew."
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“I’m the Head the Nigger in Charge…”: The Legacy of Robert Guillaume by Mark Anthony Neal The above quote is taken from the film Lean On Me (1989), a biopic of New Jersey educator Joe “bat man” Clark. Ostensibly a star turn for…

"Of the character of “Benson,” Guillaume wrote, “For a Black man the material was complex. The character was irreverent. The question was, how to express such irreverence?…I saw Benson as Mantan Moreland’s revenge...”

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"Reagan is the Pres but I voted for #ShirleyChisholm" -- Biz Markie

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The #JimiHendrix Experience - Purple Haze (Live at the Atlanta Pop Festival, 1970)

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