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A visit to Central Avenue, the center of the early Los Angeles jazz scene (opens the original)
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This story originally ran Sept. 17, 2023. Over the course of nearly 180 installments of this series, we have traveled to New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Memphis, and New Orleans. We’ve heard music recorded live in famed local venues, and gotten to know musicians who contributed to the history and development of Black music. Join me on a journey to Los Angeles. The early history of the migration of Black Americans to California, and the establishment of Black Los Angeles
Let these R&B classics do the work this Labor Day weekend (opens the original)
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This story originally ran Sept. 3, 2023. Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 270 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope you’ll find some familiar tunes and perhaps an introduction to something new. Labor Day weekend is here, with its big store sales, outdated admonitions to not wear white again until spring, local parades and union celebrations, cookouts, and barbeques. Though cele
Let’s welcome September with song (opens the original)
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This story originally ran Sept. 8, 2024. Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 270 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope you’ll find some familiar tunes and perhaps an introduction to something new. Some months of the year get immortalized in song lyrics and titles far more frequently than others, and September happens to be one of them. I’m basing this assertion on a nonscientific
Celebrating the legendary voices of the Black Queens of song (opens the original)
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This story originally ran Aug. 23, 2020. Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 270 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope you’ll find some familiar tunes and perhaps an introduction to something new. In the 1930s and into the 1940s, a legendary group of Black women were born whose voices changed music history across multiple genres and around the globe. They broke records in music sa
Songs of enslavement, resistance, and the journey to freedom (opens the original)
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This story originally ran Aug. 20, 2023. Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music. With 170 stories (and counting) covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack, I hope you’ll find some familiar tunes and perhaps an introduction to something new. As racist right-wing governing bodies attempt to erase teaching the truth about this country’s birth and growth that were sustained by enslaving Black people, it’s important to
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