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When Grief Speaks—Episode 1 of Great Grief with Nnenna Freelon, Season 1: Wailing Women. Grief is a woman with plenty to say. In the first episode of Great Grief, Nnenna Freelon asks us to consider what happens if we stop running from our grief, sit down, and listen to her for a change. Listen, subscribe, and read along with the podcast transcript.
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When Grief Speaks

by Nnenna Freelon September 13, 2023September 13, 2023

Grief is a woman with plenty to say. In the first episode of Great Grief, Nnenna Freelon asks us to consider what happens if we stop running from our grief, sit down, and listen to her for a change. Listen and read along with the podcast transcript.

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A Grief of Our Own

by Alysia Nicole Harris August 4, 2023September 13, 2023
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"Pull up your pants or go to jail!"

by Justin A. Davis June 30, 2023June 30, 2023
A lifelong musician on the unbearable silence of prison.
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Out of my hands: A musician in prison pines for his bass

by David Annarelli June 22, 2023June 22, 2023
Rapper Alim Braxton, aka Rrome Alone, released his music video 'Prisoner of War' from Death Row.
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Prisoner of War

by Alim Braxton June 22, 2023June 22, 2023
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Another kind of Memphis Blues

by Justin A. Davis June 15, 2023June 15, 2023
Producing music from prison.
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Young Tali is making music by any means necessary

by Zeb Larson June 13, 2023June 12, 2023
How prisons shaped the South's music history
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The Blues Behind Bars: How Southern prisons shaped American music

by Zeb Larson June 8, 2023June 7, 2023
The headquarters of New Orleans Musicians Assistance Foundation, the nonprofit that operates the Musicians' Clinic. Every month, the Foundation pays Bethany Bultman and her husband Johann $4,094 in rent for its use of the building for its offices. Photo by Trenity Thomas for Scalawag.
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Plantation Politics: The New Orleans Musicians' Clinic's crisis of credibility

by Drew Hawkins June 1, 2023June 2, 2023
Forever New Orleans tourism campaign advertisements. Illustrations by Keysha Rivera.
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Disaster capitalism, climate change, and the campaign to sell Black New Orleans

by Nicole Young May 31, 2023June 2, 2023
Tina Turner performs onstage at the United Center, October 1, 2000. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images) How Tina Turner's abuse and trauma remains a hip-hop trope.
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How Tina Turner's trauma remains a hip-hop trope—and why we need to abolish it

by Justin A. Davis May 25, 2023June 15, 2023
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Contradictions and Convictions: Megan Thee Stallion and why abolition can't wait

by Da'Shaun Harrison February 14, 2023May 25, 2023
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Grief and Love, Outside the Changes

by Julian Reid February 10, 2023August 9, 2023
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How 'the shadow of state abandonment' fostered then foiled Young Thug's YSL

by Justin A. Davis February 9, 2023April 28, 2023
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Cop City, Gentrification, and Young Thug: Atlanta's uneven war over greenspace in 'The City of the Forest'

by Justin A. Davis February 9, 2023April 28, 2023
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'beyond a better hell' / talking to ghosts: a mixtap/e/ssay

by A.D. Carson September 9, 2022June 22, 2023
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Longtime Memphis rapper Princess Loko died in obscurity. Will a Beyoncé feature grant her the 'Renaissance' she's overdue?

by Justin A. Davis August 11, 2022August 11, 2022
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Read, Watch, Listen, Do: An Abolitionist Media Guide

by Scalawag Editors June 23, 2022June 26, 2022
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'I don't want people to judge me by the music that I rap.' How RICO threatens freedom of speech

by Lil Mobb June 22, 2022June 22, 2022
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'Impact of an Icon': Grieving Young Dolph in South Memphis

by Dorian Record June 22, 2022June 22, 2022
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Hooked on Copaganda: What CoComelon actually teaches kids about police

by Bunny McFadden June 22, 2022November 30, 2022
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Getting 'Candid' with rapper Ivy Sole

by Taylor Hosking May 10, 2022May 10, 2022
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Poetry & Playlists, Mix 04: Alive & Full

by Aurielle Lucier April 22, 2022November 30, 2022
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Poetry & Playlists, Mix 03: The Spaces Between

by mĂłnica teresa ortiz April 15, 2022April 21, 2022
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Poetry & Playlists, Mix 02: Rituals

by Alysia Nicole Harris April 8, 2022April 21, 2022
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Poetry & Playlists, Mix 01: The Intro

by Scalawag Editors April 1, 2022April 21, 2022
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Songs for a South underwater

by Sergio Lopez February 11, 2022November 16, 2022
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The Black opera that stunned America's most segregated stage

by Frances Madeson November 11, 2021November 11, 2021
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The longest-running Indigenous radio show in Texas

by Pauly Denetclaw, Texas Observer October 19, 2021October 18, 2021
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In photos: Afropunk 2021 is a queer, Black homecoming

by Noella Williams October 1, 2021October 6, 2021

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