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On Compositions, Anita Baker really flexes her creative muscle, utilizing live instruments all the way through – no drum machines […]

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The Songstress (“Angel” was our jam), and that was in 1983. Some say that record disappeared almost as soon as […]

Mark E. Mitchell (Courtesy Mark E. Mitchell)[/caption] The Mark E. Mitchell Collection of African American History, comprised of well over […]

By Lisa R. Foeman While Oprah Winfrey may have popularized the phrase “remembering our spirits,” it was Dr. Charles Wright […]