Berklee has named Emmett G. Price III as the inaugural dean of Africana Studies. An internationally recognized expert on Black music and culture, Afro-diasporic sacred and secular expressions, and Christian worship, Price brings decades of experience as a writer, lecturer, scholar, educator, and speaker to Berklee. Price assumes his new role on August 17, 2021.
The Dean of Africana Studies unpacks Kendrick's cultural significance, the themes running through Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, and what a "big stepper" is, anyway.
Some white congregations are paying what they're calling "royalties" when they sing hymns that come from the Negro spiritual tradition. They say it's a matter of racial justice. Please click the butto
In his letter from the Birmingham jail, Martin Luther King Jr. suggested that he was more concerned about the white moderate, who was more devoted to order than to justice, than with the White Citizen
