By recognizing some of America’s greatest writers and artists. Wed Feb 17, 2021 Black History Month is a good time to give outstanding American writers the recognition they deserve. Consider, for example, Stanley Crouch, who passed away last September. Crouch is the author of Crouch (pictured above) is one of the few jazz critics worth reading, but he’s not just about music. He authored Village Voice essay on Louis Farrakhan’s October 7, 1985, address at Madison Square Garden in New York. In the view the Nation of Islam, Crouch wrote, “the white man was a devil ‘grafted’ from black people in an evil genetic experiment by a mad, pumpkin-headed scientist named Yacub. That experiment took place 6000 years ago. Now the white man was doomed, sentenced to destruction by Allah.”