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Can Black Rock Save Black Culture?

I originally posted the following on MarketingPopCulture.com in October, 2006.  Comments have not been brought over. Vernon Reid, originally uploaded by fstop45. In order for the vast majority of black youth to envision better lives for themselves, we need to bring musicality back into their lives.  By this I mean, get them playing instruments.  Since [...]

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The first question is, as ever, the most important: What am I doing here? I’m here because I have a long history in what can be called “alternative Black music.”  Since my days as PR guy for Kelvyn Bell and his band Kelvynator, my stint as PR director for the Black Rock Coalition, to my [...]

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