Year: 2026

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From Hip-Hop to Jazz: NC Musicians Influence Music Worldwide

January 7, 2026
By Alicia Benjamin These legendary Black men from North Carolina have greatly influenced music worldwide. Representing over 100 years of life, these musicians have elevated the artform of music, not only during their lifetimes, but for generations in the future. Thelonious Monk / Jazz (1917 – 1982) Credited as one of the innovators of modern jazz, Thelonious Monk played with jazz giants Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins and many others beginning in the 1940s.…
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Finding a Way Forward

January 7, 2026
Malcolm Graham writes about his journey after the Mother Emanuel Church shooting By Angela Lindsay When a young white man walked into the historical Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston under the guise of joining church members in their Bible study and shot and killed nine of them, the shock across the nation was palpable.…