Ranging Across Time and Scale, V. Shayne Frederick Holds Office Hours at Uncle Bobbie’s
MusiQ Department Artist Vince Anthony Debuts “Hurricane” Music Video
MusiQology Rx Fundraiser for One Art Community Center
Beyoncé’s Homecoming Film Preserves and Reveres Black History
Why Country Music is So Scared of Black People
DaMaris B. Hill’s New Book is a Powerful, Wondrous Thing
(FREE SHOW) Dr. Guy Performs with Ursula Rucker this Thursday, March 14, at World Café
Hide/Melt/Ghost’s Harlem Debut is a Major Moment for Black Music Scholarship & Performance
The Time Stevie Wonder Taught White Surfers how to Dance
Music Lives with MusiQology Events in Virginia and Philadelphia
The 2019 GRAMMYs: Streaks Broken, Questions Unanswered
The 2019 MusiQology GRAMMYs Preview
Ursula Rucker Talks Womanhood and Courage in Art
I Remember Roy: Remembering Roy Hargrove
Save the Date!: Dr. Guy brings Hide/Melt/Ghost to Harlem Stage on March 9!
Happy Holidays from MusiQology!
The Encouraging 2019 GRAMMY Nominations are Just One Step in a Long Process
It’s graduation week at universities across the country, so we thought we’d use this space to do two very important things. The first, of course, is to CONGRATULATE the recent graduates from our home, the University of Pennsylvania, but also the various other institutes of higher learning across...
Ta-Nehisi Coates, the preeminent black intellectual of our time, is a scholar whose work engages in many registers. I say this not only because of his wide profile—from the MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” to the James Baldwin-esque Between the World and Me—but also because his work is inflected...
“I can hear the even breathing that creates passages to dreams,” Claudia Rankine writes in Citizen, her renowned 2014 meditation on racism and its effect on the lives and existences of people of color. “And yes, I want to interrupt to tell him her us you me I don’t know how to end what doesn’t...
One of Dr. Guy’s special guests for his upcoming The Poets & A Song is Hettie Jones. Ms. Jones is a hugely influential figure and prolific writer whose memoir, How I Became Hettie Jones, is a seminal text for understanding the complexities of the Civil Rights Era. Her latest, a collection of letters...
A few Sundays ago, I entered The Race Dialogue Project’s new gallery, “Undressing Race.” As a member of the RDP board, I had heard the plans, the ideas, the goals, but I never expected such a powerful effect: the deconstruction of race. On the walls of the multi-media exhibit, the juxtaposition...
WHAT: 9th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social Justice WHERE: Zellerbach Theatre, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 3680 Walnut St. WHEN: 5:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 22 Inaugurated in 2002, the Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social Justice is an annual event that honors individuals...
