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If you wondered when R&B singers became rappers and rappers became R&B singers, you just need to take a trip back to…

Every year around this time, the National Urban League releases a “State of Black America” report, with its…

Two weeks ago, I logged into my email to read a note written by the headmaster of my daughters’ school about the…

It was the summer of 1989 when the R&B trio After 7 dropped their infectious eponymous debut album with the lead…

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