A rich and varied look at what we call black art and the people who make it.
Better Blackness
A JB Borders 2.0 Blog
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Recent Posts
- Sekou Sundiata’s “Urban Music”
- Gladys Knight’s “End of the Road” Medley
- From”The Book of Night Women”
- from the African Origins of the “Major Western Religions” by Dr. Josef ben-Jochannan
- Colored Frames: A film about black visual art
- Cassandra Wilson and Gregory Porter Hanging Out
- Amina Claudine Myers, “African Blues”
- Amiri Baraka’s Greatest Love Poem
- Amiri Baraka Memorial Mix by DJ Jalylah
- “The Second Sermon on the Warpland” by Gwendolyn Brooks
- Sunshine Road and Sweet Earth Flying: Two Marion Brown Gems
- Charles Lloyd’s Hymn to the Mother
- Natasha Alford: Educated Negro
- BRENDA MARIE OSBEY’S BRILLIANT HISTORY AND OTHER POEMS: A Brief Excerpt
- In the Heart of the Moon: A Moment with Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabaté
- “Slow Change” — Bobby Hutcherson
- “I Come from the Nigger Yard” — an excerpt
- Asa’s Prescient “Fire on the Mountain”
- Make Art Instead of Atrocities: Kara Walker’s Perspective
- 30 Shades of Black, Visually
- Radi-Aid: Africa for Norway
- “Primer for Blacks” excerpt – Gwendolyn Brooks
- Radcliffe Bailey and Memory of the Middle Passage
- Lizz Wright, Lilac Wine in tribute to Nina Simone
- Nina Simone Feeling Good Montage
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