"Ray Charles music was spiritual, sexual, youthful and true to the realities of life in America as told by the black American population of the United States."
-Ebonie Smith, Atlantic Records
The Power of a Narrative
"I Regretted Memoir but it had a Positive Effect"
Contact Music
"The Danger of a Single Story"
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, TED Talk
The Industry as an Audience
Kitty Empire, NME
Greg Tate, Rolling Stone
"Rick Rubin on Red Hot Chili Peppers"
YouTube
"Race Music" & Defacto Segregation in Pop Culture Audiences
"'Everything Except Country and Rap': What You Really Mean"
Laura Pocho, Runout Numbers
"Racism and Greed put Blues at the Back of the Bus"
Wynton Marsalis, CNN
J. Douglas Allen-Taylor, Alternet
"Ray Charles: The Makings of a Soul Legend"
Ebonie Smith, Atlantic Records
"Tyler Perry Has a White Audience Problem He'd Like to Solve"
Tambay Obenson, Shadow and Act