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Black women's deep roots in country music
Beyonce says she’s always been country. Now, with "Cowboy Carter," she’s nominated for 11 Grammys and the first Black woman to top country music charts. How Beyonce fits into the long history of Black ...
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I Thought Country Music Wasn’t For Me — Until Black Artists Proved Me Wrong
For much of my life, country music felt like a locked door — a mysterious place that invited no one who looked like me. It seemed firmly rooted in a different world, one sprinkled with images of ...
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What We Can All Learn From Black Women in Education
When educator Jane Dabney Shackelford wrote and published The Child’s Story of the Negro and Helen Adele Whiting wrote Negro Folk Tales for Pupils in the Primary Grades and Negro Art, Music and Rhyme ...
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The complex Jewish past of Bob Dylan
Born Robert Allen Zimmerman, in Minnesota, Dylan has the Hebrew name Shabtai (derived from the word Shabbat) Zisl (meaning sweet) ben Avraham, and was bar mitzvahed on May 22, 1954. He attended cheder ...