Culture
Beyoncé Receives ZERO Nominations For Country Music Association Awards Despite No. 1 Country Album. by Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton / Black Enterprise
Trump campaign ordered to stop using Isaac Hayes song at rallies after family sues. By Tesfaye Negussie / ABC News
‘The Brother From Another Planet,’ Kamala Harris And The Fallacy Of Post-Racialism. By Candice Frederick / HuffPost
The Prince We Never Knew. By Sasha Weiss / NYT
Black Music Sunday: Let’s welcome September with song. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
John Coltrane’s criminally underrated record. By Matt Phillips / Everything Jazz
LL Cool J Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop. (And Why Would He?). By Melena Ryzik / NYT
Earth, Wind & Fire Reflect on Late ‘Mentor’ Maurice White: ‘We Know What That Standard Is’ Because of Him. By Chris Barilla / People
Controversial Trump film ‘The Apprentice’ finally gets a release date. By Jada Yuan and Samantha Chery / Wash Post (Image NBC)
Black Music Sunday: Singing about those ‘Black jobs.’ By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
John Legend Wants His New Album To Be A Timeless Classic For Families. By Njera Perkins / HuffPost
Prison drama ‘Sing Sing’ captures faith of the formerly incarcerated. By Zachary Lee / RNS
Indigenous and Black people tell their own stories at the Mystic Seaport Museum. By Diane Orson / NPR
“The spark that ignites the flame”: Black sororities flex “collective power” for Kamala Harris. By Tatyana Tandanpolie / Salon
Beyonce’s foundation commits $500K to Black cowboys, Bill Picket Rodeo. By Cache McClay / USA Today
‘Kind of Blue’ at 65: Miles Davis Kind of Blew It With His ‘Greatest Ever’ Jazz Album. By Colin Fleming / The Daily Beast
7 Times Black Music Was Code For Freedom: The Evolution Of Black Revolutionary Music. By Matthew C. Allen / Newsone
The Visions of Alice Coltrane. By Marcus J. Moore / The Nation
Beyoncé Among Big Celebs Rumored to Boost Kamala Harris at DNC. By Mary Ann Akers and Matt Wilstein / Daily Beast
Women Of Color Face An ‘Epidemic Of Invisibility’ On Screen — And It’s Not Getting Any Better. By Marina Fang / HuffPost
Reflections on James Baldwin 100 years after his birth. By Wallter Ray Watson / NPR
White House chef, first woman and person of color in role, retires after nearly 30 years. By AP and NBC News
15 Black authors whose books you need to read. By the Grio
James Baldwin taught us that identities can help us to locate ourselves. But they trap us too. By Kenan Malik / The Guardian
‘Two American Families’ Is a Knockout Documentary. By Margaret Lyons / NYT
‘Homicide: Life on the Street’ Will Finally Be Available to Stream. By Maya Salam / NYT
