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Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"He came on stage in a coffin, carried by pallbearers, drunk enough to climb into his casket every night. Onstage he wore a cape, clamped a bone to his nose, and carried a staff topped with a human skull. Offstage, he insisted he'd been raised by a tribe of Blackfoot Indians, that he'd joined the army at fourteen, that he'd defeated the middleweight boxing champion of Alaska, that he'd fathered seventy-five illegitimate children. The R & B wildman...
Publisher
Auditorium Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Al Jarreau travels across a part of the American territory, looking for his past with emotion. We meet very closely a man, but also an artist, as Al Jarreau gives us new versions of his musical standards. A church, a basketball court, an old jazz club, a center for impoverished people... leads us to a memory and to a song important to Al Jarreau's life and career.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Musician Daryl likes to meet and befriend members of the Ku Klux Klan- something few black men can say. In his travels, he's collected robes and other artifacts from friends affiliated with the Klan, building a collection piece by piece, story by story, and person by person in hopes of eventually opening a "Museum of the Klan", a testimony to what knowledge and respectful, personal communication can accomplish. In ACCIDENTAL COURTESY, Daryl's journey...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Based on extensive interviews with those who knew and loved him, and publishing for what would have been his fiftieth birthday, this new biography of the Notorious B.I.G. places his life in context, both within the history of rap and the cultural and political forces that shaped him.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Celebrate the vibrant jazz, R&B, and soul music of African American artists who, during segregation, created the foundation of modern American music. Like many other Black Americans, they relied on Victor Hugo Green's Negro Travelers' Green Book, a directory of lodgings, restaurants, and entertainment venues where African Americans were safe and welcomed. Now explore the history of this essential guide with vocalists, musicians, historians, and others...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In 1866 as Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to adjust to their fashionable apartment in the city in the aftermath of riots that had driven them away a few years before. But soon a stranger arrives from the mysterious island of Edgemere, inhabited solely by African settlers and black refugees from the war and riots, who intends to reunite Tom with his now-liberated mother."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"Examines the lives, music, legacies, and interactions with Elvis Presley of the four innovative Black artists who created a style that would come to be known as Rock 'n' Roll: Little Junior Parker, Big Mama Thornton, Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, and mostly unknown eccentric Beale Street guitarist Calvin Newborn. Along the way, he delves into the injustices of copyright theft and media segregation that resulted in Black artists living in poverty as white...
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