Kevin Gray

Sep 6, 2023 | theconversation.com | Kevin Gray

Recent heated debate in South Korea about how its colonial-era independence movement should be remembered has exposed the deep faultlines that run through the country’s politics, between the conservative and liberal-progressive camps. At the end of August, the Korean Military Academy announced its intention to relocate the statue of independence activist General Hong Beom-do from its front lawn, along with that of four other independence activists.

Jul 9, 2023 | trackingangle.com | Dave Jones |Kevin Gray |Fred Kaplan

Bill Evans' classic gets an old-new sheen When I opened the package that contained this album, I rolled my eyes and said, “Just what the world needs, another audiophile reissue of Waltz for Debby.” But on a few seconds’ reflection, I dropped my cynicism. The previous reissues, on vinyl anyway, were either out-of-print or available only as part of an enormous, expensive 11-album boxed set, so, yes, this is at least one of the things we can welcome to the world with joy.

Apr 11, 2023 | blackagendareport.com | Kevin Gray |Danny Haiphong |Roy Singham |Philip J Harvey

Southern service workers allege that South Carolina’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration discriminates against Black workers. Originally published in Peoples Dispatch. A March survey of 347 service workers in the US South found that a shocking 87% were injured on the job in the last year.

Mar 14, 2023 | blackagendareport.com | Kevin Gray

Kevin Alexander Gray mixed the political and the cultural as he evoked life for Black people in the rural south and makes connections with James Brown. This article was originally published in Counterpunch. At the start of the 1960s, my father Paul moved my mom Geneva, three older brothers, younger sister and me from Boston to rural Spartanburg County in upstate South Carolina. He’d fled the South in the 1940s, enlisting in the Navy.

Feb 2, 2023 | newsbreak.com | Kevin Gray

The NBA on TNT is the gift that just keeps giving. Broadcast on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the regular season, the show features a unique blend of highlights, analysis and humor from host Ernie Johnson, former Houston Rockets guard Kenny Smith and Hall of Famers Charles Barkley and Shaquille O'Neal. Each member of the cast has their moments, though the greatest comic relief typically comes from the latter two.