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Happy Birthday, Chuck Berry! Shed 96 Tears for 96 years. That’s how old Chuck Berry would be on October 18, 2022, and we owe him big. When speaking of the great American artist Louis Armstrong, a musician friend reminds me, …“No Satch, No Jazz.” So may I say, “No Chuck Berry, No Rock and Roll.”...
I keep saying that it’s time we talk more about what might be distant visions of a more perfect society…I think that’s the ongoing American dream. So I’m giving the mic to a good friend and guest blogger Paul Luczak, who takes a pragmatic view in describing the closest we’re likely to get now and...
The Creator of Dolemite and The Signifying Monkey On March 17, we celebrate the birthday of Rudy Ray Moore, the pioneering Black filmmaker who in a seminal Blaxploitation film retold the traditional Signifying Monkey tale to a mostly Black audience, an audience who recognized, cheered on,, and eventually brought greatness to Dolemite, his groundbreaking made-on-a-shoestring...