Charles Hughes

Dec 10, 2024 | oxfordamerican.org | Charles Hughes

Talibah Safiya photograph by Anthony Lorenzo It’s a fitting origin story. As acclaimed Memphis artist Talibah Safiya began work on a new blues-infused project that became her astonishing 2024 album Black Magic, her husband brought her a book that he bought: Angela Davis’s Blues Legacies and Black Feminism. For Safiya, the reading was revelation.

Aug 17, 2024 | origins.osu.edu | Charles Hughes

Over six weekends in the summer of 1969, nearly 300,000 Black people gathered in Harlem’s Mount Morris Park for the Harlem Cultural Festival, a series of concerts celebrating Black music. A star-studded roster of artists appeared, representing Black sounds from West Africa to Motown and beyond. These performances are documented in the Oscar-winning 2021 documentary Summer of Soul.

Jul 5, 2024 | medium.com | Charles Hughes

Review The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs #18) by Jacqueline Winspear

Apr 24, 2024 | johnbassmusic.com | Charles Hughes

Art Design by Brian Dixon Debut album, Nowhere in Between available now! It took a while, but John Bass got here. Now in the third decade of his career as guitarist and educator, Bass just recorded his debut album.

Mar 18, 2024 | medium.com | Charles Hughes

CareDoctor.com, a health and wellness news site, recently alerted its readers to an outbreak of a deadly disease that wiped out a hefty portion of the population of Europe and the Far East around 600 years ago. Now called The Bubonic Plague, it was called The Black Death back then. First reported in the New York Post, CareDoctor acted responsibly by giving the story additional coverage.