Talking Black News Today

Joseph Horowitz, concert producer, cultural historian, and author of Dvořák's Prophecy and the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music John McWhorter, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University Sidney Outlaw, baritone singer; Professor of Voice, Manhattan School of Music; Voice Faculty, Brevard Music Center Summer Institute & Festival Moderated by Allen C. Guelzo, Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar and Director of the James Mad...

The lost 'Blues Opera' for an all-Black cast from Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer has been restored - can it be staged without controversy?

Language has power. This was a hard-earned lesson for Vivian Nixon and Elaine Richardson, two women who were told all their lives that their way of talking – talking Black – was something to be kept out of public and professional spaces. This episode follows their separate journeys to embrace the history, beauty, and breadth of Black English, and liberate long-buried parts of themselves in the process.

With relationship problem with the police, we could talk about police brutality, appropriate to talk about that. representative -- colin kaepernick depicting as pigs by wearing those socks is problematic. talking black lives it is truly about black lives but shouldnt just be about police brutality, but black lives in general, police brutality, or -- rob: i dont understand why that is not a subject, you have countless young people killed in major cities by gang on gang violence and nobody seems t...