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Miles Davis & Robert Glasper – Everything’s Beautiful (Mini Documentary)
About the album: The album blends a diverse group of master takes and outtakes from across Miles’ incredible tenure with Columbia Records (1955-1985) with original reinterpretations of songs by Davis. From the obvious (riffs and passages within the catalog) to the obscure (samples of Miles’ in-studio instructions spoken after false starts), Glasper has built something unique but still…
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Upclose & Personal with Octavia Butler’s Journal
From The Blog of the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: Butler created a body of work that helped launch a new genre called Afro-Futurism, which has become the focus of a remarkable amount of scholarly activity of late. After her death, The Huntington became the recipient of her papers, which arrived in 2008…
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The Crisis {Magazine} Collection Archived Online
From the Modernist Journals Project: When W. E. B. Du Bois founded The Crisis in 1910, as the house magazine of the fledgling NAACP, he created what is arguably the most widely read and influential periodical about race and social injustice in U.S. history. Written for educated African-American readers, the magazine reached a truly national…


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