Here is Geoff Edgers at The Washington Post: John Levin had no idea what heād stumbled upon at first. About 10 years ago, the collector paid about $100 for a box of wax cylinders at an auction in Pennsylvania coal […]
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Song of the Day: Rhiannon Giddens sings Paul Simon’s “American Tune”Ā
Rhiannon Giddens’ adaptation of Paul Simon is art in its own right.
Some historical context on the Jason Aldean controversy
Here is historian Nicole Hemmer at CNN: It was mid-November 1927 when, at a Tennessee courthouse wrapped in patriotic decor to celebrate Armistice Day,Ā a White mob seized a Black teenagerĀ named Henry Choate and hanged him from the buildingās balcony. The […]