John Michael CooperMar 7, 20213 minTHE BEAUTY OF BLACKNESSFlorence B. Price’s “Night” (Text by Bessie Mayle) The poetry, music, and other artworks of the Harlem Renaissance and Chicago Black...
John Michael CooperFeb 24, 20213 minTHE SPOKEN POETRY OF FLORENCE B. PRICEA Recitation of Her Unpublished Song of Hope [updated Feb. 28, 2021] Sometime in 1930, Florence B. Price (1887-1953) wrote a poem titled...
John Michael CooperFeb 13, 20214 minANOTHER FLORENCE PRICE PREMIEREMaeve Brophy and one of the Seven Descriptive Pieces for Piano Solo (1927-28) [Updated 15 February 2021] A month or so ago I published...
John Michael CooperFeb 11, 20215 minRACIAL JUSTICE AND AMERICAN PATRIOTISMResurrecting a Blacklisted Musical Affirmation of Freedom from 1976 in 2021 [Update (March 8, 2021): The June 13, 2009 revival of...
John Michael CooperFeb 289 minBLACK REINSCRIPTION, WHITE REPRISAL: ELIZABETH KECKLEY AND MARGARET BONDS
John Michael CooperFeb 167 minSEQUINA DUBOSE: FROM “BLURRED LINES,” A MESSAGE CRYSTAL CLEAR (pt. 1 of 2)