' Kandace Springs ' third record is a source of familiarity in uncertain times. Titled The Women Who Raised Me , it's full of beloved and recognizable songs associated with jazz artists who inspired and influenced Springs as an artist: Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Lauryn Hill and Norah Jones, among many others. But the album is not only a tribute to some of those legends, it's also a showcase of
'The late Cheryl Wall is a Board of Governors Zora Neale Hurston Distinguished Professor of English and former Chair of the English Department. Wall is an author and a specialist in Black women’s writing, the Harlem Renaissance, and Zora Neale Hurston. Joining the Douglass Residential College in 1972 as an assistant instructor, Wall describes her role in the development of the college and its leg
'Chef Kwame Onwuachi returns to All Of It to talk about the current state of the restaurant industry and his new Instagram live series, Eating Clean While Quarantined .'
'In celebration of International Transgender Day of Visibility 2020, CBW Collective member Michaela Machicote talks with trans woman warrior, scholar, activist, artist, and story-teller, Dr. Dora Santana, about experiences embodied in language and flesh. Dr. Santana is an assistant professor of Gender Studies at John Jay College CUNY and holds a PhD in African and African Diaspora Studies by the
'McKay Coppins , staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party's Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House (Little Brown, 2015), talks about how some Conservatives and Republicans are defying social distancing measures as a political act.' -- The Brian Lehrer Show
'The collaboration-loving bassist Thundercat said "It's hard to see clearly through the pain of losing him," when asked about the death of close friend Mac Miller . That loss permeates his fourth studio album, It Is What It Is .' -- All
