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May

05/14/2008 » Lionel Loueke: An Unassuming Guitar Hero Plays New York
05/11/2008 » Funk & Feathers: Joi Returns to NYC
05/08/2008 » Red Clay: Janelle Monae & (Extra)terrestriality

April

04/30/2008 » Passing Strange and Pulpit Portrayals: Where Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Stew Intersect
04/28/2008 » Summer of Lukewarm
04/24/2008 » Dwele's Return
04/23/2008 » Baby Mama Drama: Amy Poehler Might Need More People
04/18/2008 » First Sir Luscious, then Sean, Now Badu: The Anointing of Janelle Monae
04/17/2008 » Lacefront, Lacefront!: "Bad Hair", Black Women and Black Pop
04/15/2008 » How to Be Good: Ferentz Lafargue on Writing
04/14/2008 » Obama, "Bitter" and the Bounce Back
04/04/2008 » The King & I: Notes on the Civil Rights Martyr and My Body Politics
04/02/2008 » If A Tree Falls in the Woods...

March

03/31/2008 » Bastards out of Diaspora: On the Unfortunate Circumstance Surrounding Sean Levert's Death
03/29/2008 » I Am the Black Gold of the Sun
03/28/2008 » Hip Hop Quotable
03/24/2008 » On "Stuff White People Like"
03/24/2008 » It's the not so little things...
03/20/2008 » Amandla!
03/16/2008 » I Heard A Word: For Colored Girls... to Return to the Great White Way
03/11/2008 » The Audacity of Entitlement: Feminists and The Devolving Clinton Campaigning
03/10/2008 » West Side Story: Bilal and Choklate at the Highline Ballroom
03/10/2008 » On Spitzergate
03/08/2008 » Alice Smith at the Highline: A Review
03/07/2008 » Seattle Soul: Choklate
03/01/2008 » Demystifying Brooklyn: On Colson Whitehead's New York Times Essay

February

02/26/2008 » A Mind is A Terrible Thing to Waste: The Ossie Davis Endowment
02/25/2008 » Ebony & Ivory: A Post-Oscar Moment
02/22/2008 » Kumble Rumble
02/20/2008 » Loathsome Tear Drop
02/17/2008 » Cover Me: A Partial Wish List
02/11/2008 » Jah Mo Be There: Michael McDonald Live in NYC
02/10/2008 » GRAMMY Gushes and Gripes
02/09/2008 » Now or Never?: The Black Body Politic
02/04/2008 » Homies Over Hoes
02/04/2008 » A Prince Among Slaves
02/04/2008 » Spotlight: Jazz Saxophonist Tia Fuller
02/01/2008 » The Way I Live

January

01/27/2008 » The Cult of Personality
01/24/2008 » You Forgot it in People: Considering Hip Hop Punditry
01/23/2008 » p.r.i.tt.y Boy
01/21/2008 » Sathima Bea Benjamin Celebrates Her Record's Re-Release
01/21/2008 » One in a Million: Mavis Staples and the King Legacy
01/15/2008 » Life Imitating "30 Rock"*
01/12/2008 » Tu Vas Me Manquer
01/10/2008 » Deconstructing Obama's Playlist
01/03/2008 » Obama Triumphs in Iowa
01/01/2008 » Rock into 2008

December

12/31/2007 » Best by Far: 2007 in Singles
12/21/2007 » 2007's Disappointments in Film & Music
12/17/2007 » Who are HEAVy?: A Q&A with the vibrant duo
12/13/2007 » Back on the Block: Activist and Addict Gil Scott-Heron Speaks
12/12/2007 » Ike Turner kicks the bucket and I don't care
12/10/2007 » Don't sell yourself to fall in love & other truisms
12/06/2007 » The 50th Annual GRAMMY Nominations: The Recording Academy gets it wrong, again
12/06/2007 » Comic comes to Harlem: Dave Chappelle then & now
12/05/2007 » Fallen Star: The Black Female Soul Singer
12/04/2007 » 40 is still 40: On being grown even if it has become unsexy
12/02/2007 » "When the East Was in the House": Nineties Edition

November

11/29/2007 » Contemplating 'Clef
11/28/2007 » Funk Forum: Princeton University Toasts the Godfather of Soul
11/26/2007 » Christmastime is Here: Songs of the Season
11/13/2007 » Be Of Good Cheer: A Playlist for Moments of Loss and Loathing

October

10/28/2007 » Let Me Upbraid You: An Unsettling Journalistic Tendency
10/27/2007 » Little Boy Pop: A Halloween Playlist
10/25/2007 » Is funny as funny does?
10/23/2007 » "Everything is Valid": Young Jazz Trumpeter Christian Scott's Motley Universe
10/22/2007 » New Slang: Young Jazz Trumpeter Christian Scott on Sound & Substance
10/16/2007 » Finding Donnie
10/16/2007 » Kid Rock at the Fillmore East at Irving Plaza
10/16/2007 » In Wonder
10/10/2007 » Compared to What?
10/09/2007 » What Good Do Your Words Do?*
10/08/2007 » Regarding Tony
10/04/2007 » Out, Damn'd Spot!
10/03/2007 » An Open Letter to Debra Lee in response to BET's "Hip Hop vs. America"
10/03/2007 » Gotsa 2 Be Cool

September

09/26/2007 » Eric Roberson Live Part II
09/25/2007 » Eric Roberson Live
09/22/2007 » What Not to Watch: The War
09/20/2007 » Everything But the Burden: Appropriating Amy Winehouse Strikes Again
09/20/2007 » Jay-Z: Infantilized Player
09/19/2007 » Brother Jacques: Bringing Gwoka Back
09/18/2007 » Old to the New
09/17/2007 » Mya's New Joint is Decidely not Jumpin'
09/16/2007 » Live from Bedford-Stuyvesant: Black Rock Invades Restoration Plaza
09/13/2007 » Chucklin'
09/10/2007 » Feeding off the love of the 'land: Stevie Wonder at the Greek Theatre

August

08/29/2007 » Big Shoes to Fill
08/27/2007 » Sitting In
08/26/2007 » "There Will Never Be Another You": Max Roach Memorialized by Friends and Followers
08/21/2007 » Thank U Charlie Gibson
08/19/2007 » Just a Lazy Afternoon
08/16/2007 » The Truth: Dwele & Emily King
08/16/2007 » Homegoing: Max Roach
08/15/2007 » Blanched
08/14/2007 » Bilal at the Highline Ballroom
08/09/2007 » Spotlight: Jacky Terrasson
08/02/2007 » Bust
08/02/2007 » She Who Believes in Freedom
08/01/2007 » The Best of Booker

July

07/29/2007 » Cool Soul
07/26/2007 » Ledisi Storms the Seaport
07/25/2007 » In His Element: Robert Glasper at the Vanguard
07/20/2007 » Transitions
07/17/2007 » Classic Choreography
07/15/2007 » Chanson Papillon
07/13/2007 » "Poetry is not a Luxury"*
07/11/2007 » Gossip Folks
07/11/2007 » The Live Experience
07/05/2007 » BEFORE THE KITSCH
07/01/2007 » Punk Montage

June

06/29/2007 » Oh Sister, Where Art Thou?
06/28/2007 » Body Talk
06/27/2007 » Black Star Power
06/21/2007 » The What?!
06/17/2007 » Kinesthetic
06/15/2007 » Review: Jill Scott with Chaka Khan and Robin Thicke
06/14/2007 » DV Dreams
06/11/2007 » BLINDED BY THE LIGHT
06/07/2007 » SONGS OF MYSELF
06/05/2007 » HDTV
06/01/2007 » Spilt Gilt

May

05/25/2007 » AND SHE SAID
05/22/2007 » For the cool in you
05/21/2007 » THE AIR IN THE GREEN ROOM