About a year before I left home to attend Texas A&M, I remember hearing my 11-year-old sister singing a song that I had never heard before. I wasn’t quite sure what I was listening to, but ...

Satire cuts through rhetoric, addressing issues that may be too sensitive or contentious for traditional media. For Kenyans, it’s a familiar way to call out injustices and laugh at the ironies ...

In 'Black Music', a collection of essays, liner notes and interviews from 1959 to 1967, Amiri Baraka captures the ferment, energy and excitement of the avant-garde jazz scene. Published while he still ...