A Distance That I Cannot Seem to Close
My quiet mother, my Umma, used to write me letters, then regarding them, say, “I don’t speak well but I can write better. Without…
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Oliver Lee Jackson, the People’s Painter
“The Painter” moves expansively but in fits across the second side of Dogon A.D., a pendulous free jazz masterpiece self-released by Julius Hemphill in…
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