Jonathan Najarian is visiting assistant professor of writing and rhetoric at Colgate University. His research and writing focus on media theory, print history, and popular culture, and his essays have ...

Aaron X. Smith is assistant professor at Temple University in the Department of Africology and African American Studies. His work has appeared in such publications as the Journal of Pan African Studies ...

Pelin Kıvrak is a literary scholar and fiction writer. She worked in the creation of Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence in Istanbul and is editor of Pamuk’s illustrated autobiographical book, Uzak Dağlar ...

Molefi Kete Asante is professor and chair of the Department of Africology at Temple University. He is author of Radical Insurgencies, Revolutionary Pedagogy, and The History of Africa.

Jean-Louis Comolli (1941-2022) taught at Université Paris-VIII, FEMIS, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He was a film critic, screenwriter, film director, and jazz author.

Grégory Pierrot is associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut, president of the Amiri Baraka Society, and cohost (with Bhakti Shringarpure) of the webinar series Decolonize That!

Philippe Carles (1941-2023) was editor-in-chief at Jazz Magazine from 1971 until 2006. He coauthored several books on jazz, including Dictionnaire du jazz.

Samuel Charters has been studying and writing about New Orleans music for more than fifty years. A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz is the first book to tell the entire story of ...

In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli cowrote Free Jazz/Black Power, a treatise on the racial and political implications of jazz and jazz criticism. It remains a testimony ...

On Saturday, September 5, 1964, the family of Albert W. "Red" Heffner Jr., a successful insurance agent, left their house at 202 Shannon Drive in McComb, Mississippi, where they had lived for ten years. ...