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In 1976, Melvin Lindsey, a Howard Student, took over WHUR’s late shift as a fill-in and just kept playing slow love songs to DC’s nocturnal listeners. Cathy Hughes, who ran the station, named the show ...

Under terms of service that claim a person’s data, debts, and bloodline, Rhys Langston writes his family back into his own ...

Raised in an Igbo home in southwest Houston, Tobe Nwigwe prays over his pistol, his pockets, and his marriage in one voice, ...

On the other side of the world and over 60 years later, Louis Baker is singing soul music, folk-soul music, in Wellington in ...

Fifty years after the quiet storm sold the bedroom as shelter, Johnny Venus sings that shelter beautifully and then confesses ...

Working alone at his own board, Ovrkast. raps through everything he owes his father, his city, his peers, and the men who ...

Asked her whole life what she is, Joyce Wrice answers in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s-built R&B on her own schedule, and her ...

It seems an odd choice for a jazz festival, even if Montreal is where she’s based, but Montreal booked Nyota Parker for the summer of 2025. Parker had been named Apple Music Up Next in South Africa ...

Meyhem Lauren books the long table for everyone who made it off the corner with him, and every dish he orders counts the living.

Back from a long retreat from the business that signed her at thirteen, Gabriella Cilmi copies out the orders she grew up ...