Black History Month

This month, PBS airs “The Dream Whisperer,” which follows the hoops star on a quest to give his all-Black college team its historical due.

Outmanned and outgunned, the Panthers remained steadfast in their belief that Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness is the birthright of all Americans.

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For one month in 1977, Lagos was the epicenter of global Black culture.

“The system was rigged against him. It's the same old Scott Joplin/Charlie Parker story, only with a different person. Julius is just another in the line of black geniuses who get squashed in this particular hemisphere.”

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“The black Woody Allen, a camera-wielding Sharpton, a gifted charlatan, an inspiration, a generous sort, a media hound (or barker)”

On Election Day 2008, the Voice went to Ohio to report on Barack Obama’s message of hope

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In 1992, the Voice gave readers a powerful, insightful essay and seventeen pages of kick-ass graphics

The afterlife of a pioneering composer who changed New York, then disappeared