40 Days of Prayer & Fasting
PRAYER CALL SIGN-UP Can you feel the tension in the air? When you look at everything happening around you, does
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Music
LIL HARDIN ARMSTRONG
by Jone Johnson Lewis Updated March 11, 2017 Known for: first major woman jazz instrumentalist; part of King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band; marriage to Louis
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Afropunk Festival 2017
Like she did at Panorama, Outside Lands, FYF Fest, and Pitchfork Festival, Solangebrought her spectacular and meticulously-imagined set to Brooklyn’s Afropunk Festival on Saturday (8/26). She
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Spike Lee Celebrates Michael Jackson at Bed-Stuy Block Dance Party
Michael Jackson’s birthday isn’t until Tuesday—he would have been 59 this year—but on a sunny Saturday in Bed-Stuy, Spike Lee
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Positive Music Matters Roundtable
Music Roundtable Questions Positive Music Matters The Future of Black Music in the USA – Should a conversation about our
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Sixty pianos installed on the streets of NYC
New York’s streets are about to become a lot more musical. The arts nonprofit Sing For Hope is once again
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Educator Offers Free College Courses on the Business of Music
Meet John P. Kellogg, a leading attorney and Berklee College of Music professor, who is teaching two free online courses
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Sylvia Moy, Motown Songwriter Who Worked With Stevie Wonder, Dies at 78
Sylvia Moy, a Motown songwriter and producer who collaborated with Stevie Wonder on “Uptight (Everything’s Alright)” and “My Cherie Amour,”
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Les Nubians Celebration of Ella’s 100th Birthday
By Risasi Dais Helene and Celia Faussart, the dynamic Grammy-nominated sister duo from Bordeaux, France known in the music industry
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Vaughn Harper, Silky-Voiced D.J.
Courtesy of The New York Times Vaughn Harper, a disc jockey who kept New Yorkers company after dark for decades
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