Remembering Pianist and Composer Randy Weston
At the recent Detroit Jazz Festival, I showed vocalist Cecile McLorin Salvant a photo I took of Randy Weston last
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Memory
The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics
In Percival Everett’s satirical novel Erasure (2001), a struggling author in need of money to pay for his elderly mother’s
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The Liberatory Potential of Black Theology
*This post is part of our online forum on the Life and Legacy of Dr. James H. Cone. In the 1980s I was
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For His People: James H. Cone and Black Theology
*This post is part of our online forum on the Life and Legacy of Dr. James H. Cone. For many years now, I
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On the Passing of Historian Sterling Stuckey, 1932-2018
I first met Sterling Stuckey in Chicago fifty-five years ago. In the Spring of 1963, Sterling and a group of high school teachers and
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