Posts By derrickhemphill

Jazz music “still lives, and people need to know that,” says Fantasia, referring to the new foot-stomping Broadway revue After Midnight, in which she costars alongside Dulé Hill (The West …
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In her new book, Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Touchstone), Misty Copeland opens up about her rise from poverty to becoming the first African American female soloist in two …
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Some of the greatest entertainers the world has ever seen are soul divas from America. In their art, we see and hear pain, resilience, and beauty. Angelic voices, like Aretha …
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Living just steps away from some of Paris’ most revered and well known places – like the Louvre and Notre Dame Cathedral – made for quite the adventure on my …
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The artist Willie Birch grew up in New Orleans before the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, well before the Black Power Movement, and in the throes of the …
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