Respect is often the reward of dignity. 

I’ve been thinking lately about the topical debate around the fashion label, Gucci. The fact that one of their items of clothing brought back the collective cultural memory of black face and the minstrel shows. 

It reminded me tha...

Donald Walbridge Shirley (29 January 1927 - 6 April 2013).⁣
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I recently went to see the movie Green Book. If you haven’t seen it, don’t worry there aren’t any spoilers here - this isn’t a review of the film. Even though Dr Shirley’s family have slammed the film as a ‘...

Africans are unique in the contributions they have made to the history of music in the west. Although I think its an over simplification, we are told by music historians that where as Europeans have been responsible for harmony it is the African influence that has led...