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How did the shallowest version of a collective identity become a music industry standard?

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Entering the black backstage

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A meditation on broken recording contracts and their fallout

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Oct 26

Liner notes for an never-ending live performance

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Oct 18

How the sound waves from this black hole carry flavorful pictures to touch, information that can never be lost.

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Oct 9

Amina reciting a poem for Pharoah

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Oct 5

Fear not Man By degrees, I am submitting to God. Before I am tackled and talked about, before the fowlers lure me with the cheap jewel of reed blood…

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Sep 26

On a song by James Brown and when my father was James Brown and Home.

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Sep 21

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