Sublime

Max Roach:

It’s been more than half a decade since Dilla passed, and I still don’t really know what to think about it. He had been there at the beginning of neo soul, though we didn’t call it that then, and his music will be around long after people don’t call it that anymore.

In December of 1982, the Cuban-born Luis Alvarez, a Miami police officer, shot and killed Neville Johnson Jr., a young Black Caribbean American man, in an Overtown arcade as Johnson was playing a video game. The following conflagration left eighteen dead and shut down more than two hundred businesses. There was no conviction.

creator of the Smithsonian Museum’s “Programs in Black Culture,” and one of the leading authorities on Black American music culture,