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creator of the Smithsonian Museum’s “Programs in Black Culture,” and one of the leading authorities on Black American music culture,
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music



He conducts an ongoing interrogation about what it all means. What’s black culture? What’s hip-hop? What are the responsibilities of a society and the people in it? And his inquiry isn’t bloodlessly academic, either; there’s something very consequential about his approach.
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson • Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove

Zombies & Hoodoo & Zora Neale Hurston
Zombies & Hoodoo & Zora Neale Hurston — Lit Pub Crawl

Much of this music was rooted in practices of the African ancestors, and it often reflected adaptations and innovations resulting from black American life experiences.