Talk show “Soul!” aired on PBS during the late-’60s and early-’70s. As singer Lalah Hathaway says in a retrospective on the show’s impact, “It was for us, by us.”
He encouraged people to donate to Give a Child the Universe, a new initiative from Color of Change and AMC Theatres that aims to send children to see “A Wrinkle in Time.”
See how Questlove, Erykah Badu, D’Angelo and a host of other Black musicians came together to develop a new sonic blueprint for hip hop and R&B in the late ’90s.
One of the series, the animated “South Street Sounds,” follows three friends who form a band in a neighborhood saturated by music—similar to The Roots’ own origin on Philadelphia’s South Street.
From Spike Lee’s block party to Erykah Badu’s lengthy Facebook tribute, see how some of your favorite musicians and artists honored The Purple One’s passing.
We asked a bunch of our favorite activists, filmmakers, musicians, writers and comedians what they watched, listened to and read throughout the year. Check out our mammoth-but-fascinating rundown of the music, TV shows, films, books, visual art and viral videos they loved.
