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'Impact of an Icon': Grieving Young Dolph in South Memphis

by Dorian Record June 22, 2022December 5, 2023
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'I don't want people to judge me by the music that I rap.' How RICO threatens freedom of speech

by Lil Mobb June 22, 2022December 5, 2023
Artist Ivy Sole discusses the impetus behind their latest record, and why the struggle to get free requires more than music and dope visuals.
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Getting 'Candid' with rapper Ivy Sole

by Taylor Hosking May 10, 2022December 5, 2023
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Poetry & Playlists, Mix 04: Alive & Full

by Aurielle Lucier April 22, 2022November 30, 2022
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Poetry & Playlists, Mix 03: The Spaces Between

by mónica teresa ortiz April 15, 2022April 21, 2022
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Poetry & Playlists, Mix 02: Rituals

by Alysia Nicole Harris April 8, 2022April 21, 2022
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Poetry & Playlists, Mix 01: The Intro

by Scalawag Editors April 1, 2022April 21, 2022
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Songs for a South underwater

by Sergio Lopez February 11, 2022September 27, 2023
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The Black opera that stunned America's most segregated stage

by Frances Madeson November 11, 2021November 11, 2021
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The longest-running Indigenous radio show in Texas

by Pauly Denetclaw, Texas Observer October 19, 2021September 27, 2023
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In photos: Afropunk 2021 is a queer, Black homecoming

by Noella Williams October 1, 2021October 6, 2021
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Killer Mike's radical lyrics are masking reformist politics

by Nicholas Vila Byers June 8, 2021June 28, 2021
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'T-Pain was important because he was ours'

by Israel Daramola March 8, 2021March 8, 2021
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This is damn sure not our grandparents' rhythm and blues

by Marcus K. Dowling February 16, 2021February 16, 2021
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Before Charlie Parker, there was Lester Young

by Brian Major December 9, 2020December 9, 2020
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The Mutual Musicians Foundation is fighting the gentrification of Jazz in Kansas City

by Zeb Larson December 8, 2020September 27, 2023
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There Goes the Neighborhood: What really caused the decline of 18th & Vine

by Zeb Larson December 8, 2020September 27, 2023
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In Photos: When we couldn't come home

by Philip Harris November 23, 2020November 13, 2023
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Why drill and trap are the soundtrack of this generation's protests

by Nicholas Vila Byers November 13, 2020November 13, 2020
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Forgotten protest icon Odetta Holmes lives on in modern Black Americana

by Chelsea Spear October 23, 2020February 10, 2021
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When all hell breaks loose, North Carolina returns to the cypher

by Kyesha Jennings October 13, 2020October 13, 2020
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'I hate that thug music.' How 'progressive' music outlets fuel false arrests in the trap scene

by Nicholas Vila Byers August 10, 2020November 21, 2023
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Paying homage to the Black Women icons of Ebony and Jet Magazine

by Ming Joi March 27, 2020September 16, 2020
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Through the river: talking art, borders and identity with artist Camila Linaweaver

by Emma Speckman November 27, 2019September 27, 2023
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Memory, Myth, and Legend: Missing Brushstrokes

by Allison Griner September 16, 2019September 16, 2020
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In the living room with Aretha and James and C.L.: Review of Amazing Grace

by Antonia Randolph September 9, 2019March 26, 2021
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How Lil Nas X started a Viral Revolution

by Luna August 26, 2019September 16, 2020
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Megan Thee Stallion is just heating up

by Terryn Hall August 12, 2019March 19, 2021
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Poetry & Playlists: 2 Poems by Maeve Holler

by Maeve Holler July 22, 2019December 3, 2020
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Homespun: The Small Museum of Folk Art

by Jeremy James George June 17, 2019September 16, 2020

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