Charley Pride, Country Music’s First Black Superstar, Dies at 86
By Bryan Pietsch (of the NY Times) Dec. 12, 2020Updated 5:38 p.m. ET Charley Pride, a son of sharecroppers who rose to...
Black Culture
Dick Allen RIP – Total B.S…ya won’t reshape history on my watch…
by - Phil Allen (Mt Airy Phil) Jackie Robinson was SEVENTEEN years before Richie Allen made the Phillies, and the...
Black History – ART OF THE SLOW JAM
GRINDING/SLOW JAMMIN This is something that has been alluded to accross several of the recent threads (Curtis Mayfield, Delphonics, Moments,...
Giving Thanks 2020
Bob Davis & his late mother https://youtu.be/YtvBiaPYXPY I wanted to take a moment to give thanks and to share the...
PART 2 ACRES AND MULES ADJUSTED FOR INFLATION: WHAT BLACK SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY MUST LOOK LIKE AFTER 2020
A Critique in (Originally Three, Now) Four Parts Part 1 Link: PART 2 This is the second part of what...
Let’s Make The Sound of Young America Great Again
Motown Museum I can remember being captivated by the music as earlier as seven or eight. It started with me...
Trump is our Chernobyl Disaster
Back in 2019, before the dark times, I watched the HBO special on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the former...
Kenny Gamble: Knowledge is King
"Understand while you dance" ---Kenny Gamble: Message in the Music (1976) Circa 1986-87, Christian conservatism dominated American social and political attitudes,...
Blues Radio: A Historical Perspective
BB King at WDIA radio in Memphis The wonderful blues radio programming we enjoy today is a relatively recent phenomenon....
RIP – Remembering Earl Harvey (Fierce Advocate for Black Business in Philly)
Bob Davis, Kevin Amos & Earl Harvey at the Berks Jazzfest I just learned that our friend Mr. Earl Harvey...
