Happy 70th Birthday To Ya, Stevie Wonder! (LISTEN)
[embedded content] by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) It’s no secret how much the Good Black News team loves and reveres Stevie Wonder, as we have been celebrating him throughout May with various tributes, posts and playlists on the main page and across...
Colson Whitehead, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Jericho Brown and More Win Pulitzer Prizes in 2020
Jericho Brown, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Colson Whitehead (photos via commons.wikipedia.org and nikolehannahjones.com)by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) The Pulitzer Prize winners for 2020 were announced yesterday. Notable among them were Colson Whitehead for...
A Remembrance of Jazz Legend Ella Fitzgerald on Her Birthday and Playlist (LISTEN)
Ella Fitzgerald receiving her Honorary Doctorate in Music at Harvard University in 1990 (photo: Charles Krupa)by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Although I’m typically calm-if-a-bit-nerdy when I meet artists I admire, there is one time in my life I fully lost...Born on This Day in 1915: Legendary Jazz and Blues Singer Billie Holiday (LISTEN)
[embedded content] by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) GBN delights in the opportunity to commemorate the birth of Billie Holiday, one of America’s most talented singing artists, on what would have been her 105th birthday. Born Eleanora Fagan on April 7,...Now Hear This
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