BLACK HISTORY MONTH: TORONTO’S MUSTAFA
Poet turned musician transforms grief and loss into music
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: TONY ALLEN + HUGH MASEKELA
African music legends deliver a tight and driving one-off album from a 2010 weekend session
BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2022: OUTSIDE CHILD ALBUM
Allison Russell’s first solo album is a wise reckoning about her childhood abuse
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: OUTSIDE CHILD LYRICS
The lyrics to Allison Russell’s Outside Child album tell the story of her childhood abuse in Montreal
RELEVANCE WITH SOUL
Montrealer and Haitian-Canadian Dominique Fils-Aimé shines on the final album in her trilogy exploring African-American blues, jazz and soul
YES THEY DO
The diverse music inspired by Black Lives Matter is bound by a profound shared grievance and a stance of never giving up
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: BLACK ARTISTS PLAY NPR’S TINY DESK
Meshell Ndegeocello is one of a dozen emerging and established artists playing NPR’s famous Tiny Desk Concert series
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: “BLACK PROTEST IS MUSIC. LEARNING THE MELODY IS NOT ENOUGH”
To really know what’s going on with Black protest music, we need to know and feel the words
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: “I CAN’T BREATHE”
Black protest hit a political and musical turning point with George Floyd’s murder on May 25, 2020
ROBERT GLASPER’s BIG VISION: PART 1
The jazz pianist cuts a swath through genres from warm acoustic jazz to socially conscious R&B and hip hop
