Archives
May
05/07/2008 » Bigger Than One: Some Reflections on "The Franchise"
April
04/21/2008 » And the Winner Is...Donny Hathaway, Mr. Soul
04/13/2008 » Obama Elitist? I'm Hearing Something Else
04/07/2008 » Hearing (Thinking) Black Death
March
03/22/2008 » Nothing But a Man: Remembering Ivan Dixon
03/14/2008 » of (Black) Men and Song (ver. 1.0)
03/03/2008 » (Covering) Strange
February
02/27/2008 » Generous Brilliance
02/11/2008 » Opening Barkley
January
01/30/2008 » Wanted! Smart Negroes
01/26/2008 » Notes from a Soul Jazz Summit
01/20/2008 » What Would Shirley Chisholm Say?
01/09/2008 » Hillary vs. Barack? A Black (Male) Feminist Considers
01/06/2008 » A Sunday Kind of Love: Romancing Barack
01/02/2008 » Debating the Great Debaters
December
12/29/2007 » Critical Noir: The 2007 Playlist (ver. 2.0)
12/19/2007 » Critical Noir: The 2007 Playlist (ver. 1.0)
12/17/2007 » A Peerless Genius: Thriller @ 25
12/08/2007 » Come Back Chester Himes
October
10/30/2007 » My People
10/17/2007 » Doubting Thomas
10/16/2007 » Waiting for Keyshia
10/02/2007 » Little Man Isiah
September
09/24/2007 » A Thug's Humanity?
09/17/2007 » Domesticating Violence
09/06/2007 » Live Arts and Fresh Cut Chips
09/04/2007 » The Katrina-Politans: A Meditation on Movement, Citizenship and the Katrina Generation
August
08/27/2007 » A Song for Lucien (for Jon Lucien 1942-2007)
08/18/2007 » Love Me Tender: The Complex Legacy of Elvis Presley
08/17/2007 » Faith in Rhythm
08/15/2007 » What's an R&B Girl to Do?
08/09/2007 » Finding Forever, Finding Nina
08/06/2007 » Compared to What?
08/02/2007 » Freedom’s Desire
July
07/30/2007 » Too Much Time on Their Hands
07/23/2007 » Soul and Prose: Chrisette Michele and Michael Eric Dyson
07/17/2007 » Head Nodding Prose for the Summer, Volume One.
07/17/2007 » The Boys of Summer (of Sam)
07/12/2007 » The Amen Corner: Blackness and the Populism of Common Sense
07/09/2007 » Chasing Down a Memory
07/05/2007 » What's in Your Hip-Hop Canon?
June
06/27/2007 » Critical Musings: The 2007 BET Awards
06/20/2007 » MusiQology 101 with Dr. Guy
06/19/2007 » What the Hell is Juneteenth?
06/14/2007 » Star-Spangled Freak
06/11/2007 » 60 Is the New 40: Frankie Beverly
06/07/2007 » "Baseball Been Berry, Berry Good to Me": Where Have all the African-American Players Gone?
May
05/31/2007 » Tyler Perry and the Black Bible Belt
05/21/2007 » Introducing Critical Noir