In the 1950s, Harry Belafonte broke down barriers; Carolyn Bryant’s Emmett Till testimony kept them up. This week, both died the same day.
(April 29, 2023). In August 1955, Carolyn Bryant falsely accused Emmett Till, a Black teenager from Chicago, of verbally threatening, grabbing and whistling at her while in her family’s store…
SZA’s ‘Kill Bill’ this week joins an exclusive list of homicidal (and otherwise romantically tragic) No. 1 pop hits
(April 25, 2023). “Hello, 9-1-1? I’d like to report another Number One musical double-murder. “Yes, I know it’s happened before, but that was a long time ago. This one is…
Black folks had a beef with Budweiser, too—exactly 40 years ago—but a deal was cut, and all was good.
(April 24, 2023). At a time when we were pushing—with Stevie Wonder among those leading the charge—to have Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday recognized as a national holiday, and when…
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Too-rye-ay: 40 years ago, the sublime (and nearly nixed) ‘Come On Eileen’ separated the No. 1 reigns of two King of Pop classics!
(April 22, 2023). It was April 23, 1983, during the early months of Michael Jackson’s chart blitz with the album Thriller and its two biggest monster hit singles, “Billie Jean”…
How artificial intelligence created a fake new Drake song and a legal problem for the industry…and the question no one is asking.
(April 20, 2023). Even the most casual of contemporary music fans know that Drake—the highly popular rapper out of Toronto—has been one of the two biggest artists on the planet…