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Woman playing a guitar, and the cover of the book 'Country Music USA.'

‘Country Music … Was Anything BUT Pure’

On the music’s African-American tributaries, its unpredictable politics, country radio’s woman problem, and working on Ken Burns’ forthcoming doc.

by Bill C. Malone, Will Hermes, Tracey Laird via Longreads on August 1, 2018

Story of Paris Hill Man Connects Maine to ‘Complexities’ of Slave Trade

Torn from his family in Africa, Pedro Tovookan Parris spent the last years of his short life in rural Maine.

by Kelley Bouchard via Press Herald on July 15, 2018

As Goes the South, So Goes the Nation

History haunts, but Alabama changes.

by Imani Perry via Harper’s on July 15, 2018

The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show Lives on in the Internet Archive

Episodes from the infamous hip-hop radio show of the '90s.

by Drew Millard via The Outline on May 26, 2018

A Most Violent Year

The world that 1968 ushered in is a far cry from the one activists imagined.

by Alan Wolfe via The New Republic on May 18, 2018

Robert Redford in "The Sting."

Why Are All the Con Artists White?

The history of the black con artist has been forgotten.

by Shane White via Journal of the History of Ideas Blog on April 23, 2018

Mavis Staples singing on stage, head back and hand raised.

Mavis Staples on Prince, Trump, Black Lives Matter, and Her Exercise Regimen

Mavis Staples' lyrics span from the civil-rights-era to today's societal issues.

by Mavis Staples, Elon Green via The New Yorker on September 11, 2017

Orson Welles

A Hundred Years of Orson Welles

He was said to have gone into decline, but his story is one of endurance—even of unlikely triumph.

by Alex Ross via The New Yorker on November 30, 2015

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